You perform these instructions at your own risk.Method 3: Download & Update AMD Graphics Drivers via Bit Driver Updater (Recommended) How to Download AMD Catalyst Drivers For Windows 10 & Older Versions?Ĭheck out the ways listed below to learn how to download AMD graphics card drivers for Windows 10 and older versions of the operating system. These instructions were left for those who are experienced with editing, tweaking and making changes to thier OS.
Reboot and install the current month's drivers from then on out. If all goes well and the problem is fixed all you need to do from now on is to use ATI Catalyst Install Manager found in Uninstall Programs (Win7) or Add or Remove Programs (XP). Wait about 5 minutes for win7 to rebuild the index) Install the DDI hotfix (KB975243) if your DDI reads 10.1 when using a Win7 with a DX11 video card. Click on the Save All Information button. Type dxdiag in Start's search box to verify. Popup screen will tell you to reboot the PC. Select no page file for the hard drive using pagefile. UnCheck Automatically manage Paging file size for all drives. (this will also remove your backup Cat driver if they are still present in the registry.Ĩ. If you find those keys delete them and their sub-keys (icons that look like yellow folders). Only check the option to search for Keys. Click on Edit then Find and enter ATI Technologies. Next do a "Key" search for ATI Technologies. Select a name and location on your hard drive and save it.) Open Regedit then backup your Registry by: Finally go to Sound, Video and Game Controllers and uninstall all ATI High Definition Audio Devicesħ. Goto Monitors and uninstall all gray out monitors listed (or any old monitor devices). Look in Display Adapter for any grayed out video cards and uninstall them (or any old video card devices).Ħ.
Click on View and select show hidden devicesĥ. Type devmgmt.msc (this will take you to Device Manager). At the dos prompt typed: set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 (this will show all hidden devices in Device Manager)Ĥ. Right click on CMD from the list and Run as Administratorģ.
If you are having problems and you've already uninstall your monthly Cat driver and rebooted your PC then goto Device Manager, Display Adapter, right click on ATI Radeon HD XXXX Series and uninstall it. I've not found any older Cat drivers for the 5870 once you uninstall your Cat drivers. This results in not having any Areo, etc effects on the desktop. Others may not have a backup driver when they uninstall their monthly Cat. If you are not experiencing any more problems you should keep the backup, older driver and stop at this point and just install your current monthly Cat release drivers. That backup driver shouldn't be used to replace your monthly Cat/driver. If you check windows update you may find Cat driver for your 4000 series card. This allows them to still use Areo and other effects, etc even though they don't have any current monthly Cat Driver installed. 4000/3000 series users may see a backup, old Cat driver without CCC capabilities once you've removed your monthly Cat Driver. First, check to see what kind of backup driver is loaded for your video card after you've removed your current, monthly cat drivers. The next few steps are a more involved methods of removing all driver and related traces. If there is right click on "your name"-PC and select troubleshoot. Make sure there is no yellow triangle in the "your name"-PC.
This will prevent your OS from brute forcing old driver installs once you've uninstall them upon bottom.ħ. Change it so it reads "Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them". Look at the section that reads Import Updates. Type: Windows Update in Start's search box. (also look for sub folders for ATT, Rivatuner, etc and delete them)Ħ. Goto: X:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\ and delete the ATI sub folder. Goto: X:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\ and delete ATI sub folder (also look for sub folders for ATT, Rivatuner, etc and delete them)ĥ. You want to only manually delete them if you are experience a serious problem.Ĥ. These files are normally deleted once you install your monthly Cat Driver. Remove all ATI files from the windows\system32\ sub directory (Hover the cursor over the file to make sure it's a AMD/ATI file. Once completed remove Ati Tray Tools, AMDGPUClock, Rivatuner, etc. Use the uninstall program from CCC or use the add/remove option to remove your drivers then reboot.Ģ. There are a few things you can do if you want to manually uninstall drivers:ġ. Below is a guide to help you but it's a lengthy process. Guide for those who can't get the DDI hotfix to workIf you are unable to get the DDI version to change this maybe an indication that your previous installed video card is still being recognized by your OS.