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I play a racing sim every evening on my gaming laptop and know exactly how it should feel. After installing AMD Radeon Crimson Edition Graphics Driver 16.7.3, it's noticeably choppier, frame times are all over the place, and tonight it even crashed once: I…

short version: Catalyst Display Driver won't install. longer version: my prebuilt desktop came with a manufacturer customized graphics driver... i wanted the newer one from AMD directly. every installer i try says its incompatible with my Windows... is the…

im literally losing my mind here please tell me this is a driver thing. glitches in 3D apps on my editing workstation, starting right after the GeForce Graphics Driver update: the card isn't new but it's never shown anything like this before... temperatures…

guys pls help calls with clients now come with a free percussion track 😤 My audio craclkes when moving windows around, through a headset, and started right after a driver update. Ive disabled all the sound enhancements i could find, set the power plan to…

I lost a ranked match to this today, so forgive the tone. an open world RPG hard freezes during loading into a match and then I get this: It says the device was removed. Removed! Two weeks ago I had zero crashes. In bteween, the only change was the ION 330HT…

hmmmm ok i finally have IntelliType Pro Software working nicely, and the Microsoft app offers virtual surround, bass boost, loudness equalization, and more. windows also has its own spatial sound options, for competitive games on a USB headset, what do u…

I just finished a fresh build on my laptop 😤 Windows Update grabbed a bunch of drivers, and everything seems to work. Now Im wondering whether I still need to install ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity TF700T WW Firmware 😤 Some people say its essential for…

heres a fun one: the mouse works, teh app doesnt see it. my gaming mouse lost its button remapping configuration because teh LifeCam Software 2.9 Beta app cant detect it... ive tried teh basic stuff: different port, restart, reinstall, im comfortable with…

not gonna lie this is driving me nuts after installing NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB Graphics Driver 511.17 Ive had teh screen resolution reset on my streaming PC. Fine, Ill just roll it back. Except teh Roll Back Driver button is greyed out, and when i…

not gonna lie this is driving me nuts question for the network folks: do you install network drivers from the chip maker or from your PC maker? I'm looking at Killer Xeno Pro Driver from EVGA for my home built desktop. my priority is fast downloads. is there…

three black screens tonight, all while watching a video in teh browser. the third time it didnt recover and i had to hold the power button. the workstation is about two years old. I updated to Catalyst Radeon Display Driver 3.8 (Windows 98/ME) because a game…

guys pls help something's off. an MMO feels sluggish since the nForce 64 bit Driver 6.25 Beta update and the FPS counter agrees with me. That crash happened once too. i'm on a small form factor PC. i've restarted, reinstalled the game, and turned off…

i wanted to do a clean install on my work laptop. Made a Windows USB stick, booted it, clicked through to the disk selection screen and got this: No drives at all. The BIOS clearly shows the NVMe SSD with its correct model and size. Ive remade teh USB stick…

after the Samsung SH M522C Firmware TI01 update, my work PC became painfully slow :D opening the Start menu takes ages, and apps freeze for seconds at a time :/ task Manager shows this: The external SSD sits at 100% active time, with barely any read or write…

im literally losing my mind here i play a strategy game every evening on my gaming laptop and know exactly how it should feel. After installing NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Driver 375.57, its noticeably choppier, frame times are all over the place, and tonight it…

guys pls help USB is acting cursed on my gaming PC. an external drive drops out at random, and the port stays dead until a restart... i updated the chipset driver from Shuttle last week, and thats when it started, i checked Device Manager and sometimes a USB…

"Driver is unavialable" lmao thats all Windows tells me about my receipt printer. it started after a system restore. ive tried removing the printer and adding it again. windows finds it, then shows the same message. im guessing an old driver is stuck…

guys pls help i lost a ranked match to this today, so forgive the tone. a competitive shooter hard freezes during opening teh map and then i get this: it says the device was removed... removed! two weeks ago i had zero crashes... in between, the only change…

ok weird one after installing AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition Graphics Driver 18.11.1 Hotfix Ive had a black screen after login on my prebuilt tower. Fine, Ill just roll it back. Except teh Roll Back Driver button is greyed out, and when I uninstalled it…

quick poll for people using AMD hardware for 3D rendering: has Catalyst Beta Driver treated u well? ive seen a couple of complaints online, but complanits are always louder than happy users 🔥 id like to hear from ppl for whom it just works, too. tell me…

Okay, this is driving me nuts. Black screen, fans ramp up, and about five seconds later Windows comes back like nothing happened. Then this pops up: its always while alt tabbing out of a fullscreen game. my home built tower is not overclocked and temps look…

not gonna lie this is driving me nuts quick poll for ppl using NVIDIA hardware for 3D rendering: has GeForce Notebook Graphics Driver 302.80 treated u well? Ive seen a couple of complaints online, but complaints are always louder than happy users. Id like to…

ok weird one short story: Wi Fi breaks after resuming from hibernate, and only a reboot fixes it. Longer story: the 2 in 1 tabelt uses Modern Standby, I think, cuz it never realy turns off when the lid is closed ;) After the AOpen DEX4502 Intel Lan Driver…

ok so im genuinely confused, picture on my soundbar is great, but sound comes out of the laptop speakers only. It started right after teh Intel driver update. Ive checked the volume mixer, default device, everything i know of. Theres simply no HDMI output to…

i keep seeing PCI Data Acquisition and Signal Processing Controller on fresh installs and i never know which driver it needs. this time its on my mini PC, can someone explain how to identify it using hardware IDs and where to get the right driver safely?…