After the performance pillar's argument of doing extensive testing between different configurations, and driver versions among other things, I have taken the audacity to prepare the AMD drivers to have only the Display Driver and not have the irrelevant bloatware crap that nobody really wants, I also recommend using the alternative interface called RadeonSoftwareSlimmer or Radeon-ID Files
- 20.4.2 w7 & w10/11 / 20.4.2.csv
- 20.5.1 w10/11 / 20.5.1.csv
- 20.8.1 w10 & w7 / 20.8.1.csv
- 20.9.1 w7 & w10/11 / 20.9.1.csv
- 20.11.2 w7 & w10/11 / 20.11.2.csv
- 21.10.2 w7 w10/11 / 21.10.2.csv
- 24.5.1 w10/w11 / 24.5.1.csv
- 24.9.1 w10/11 / 24.9.1.csv
- 24.12.1 w10/w11 / 24.12.1.csv
- 25.1.1 w10/w11 / 25.1.1.csv
- 25.3.1 w10/11 / 25.3.1.csv
The two ways to install them are simple, you can install it automatically with the install.bat that is in the folder that will install and restart automatically when the process is finished, install it by CMD using pnputil or manually through the device manager with the steps below
Warning
Before choosing the driver, make sure you have done a corresponding benchmark and also remember to analyze the DPC latency
- Once we have decided which driver to install
- Download the Display Driver in case of w10 will be WT6A_INF, in w7 is called W76A_INF
- All we have to do is open the Device Manager (Win + R = devmgmt.msc)
- Go to the "Display adapters" section, right click on the "Microsoft Display Adapter"
- "Update Drivers" and choose the option "Browse my computer for drivers"
- This will ask us the location of the driver that we downloaded previously unzipped we will put it
- Activate the option "Include subfolders" and click "Next", now the driver installation will start
For some reason, if you need the AMD software although it is not recommended, it is possible to install it by means of a simple .msi that gives us the ccc2_install, the only thing we will have to do is to go to the Releases of the driver that you installed and download the "ccc-next64.msi" then we will execute the file (it has to be if or if the CNext of the same version that we have otherwise it will throw an error)
The preparation of the AMD drivers is quite simple, the only thing you need is 7zip, install the driver you want to prepare, extract it and browse the folder AMD-Software-Adrenalin-Edition-XX.X.X\Packages\Drivers\Display\. After that you will find WT6A_INF or W76A_INF (in the case of win7), there is the Display Driver which is in charge of the representation of the visual information you will see.
The only thing you need is the .inf, .cat and the folder BXXXXXX, all the rest are irrelevant components and you can delete them as the red ones represented in the image.
To extract the software you have to redirect to the folder BXXXXXX and open with 7zip the ccc2_install.exe, inside you will see several folders the only thing you have to use is the ccc-next64.msi that is in ccc2_install.exe\CN\cnext\cnext64\. Then to install the software you have to run the corresponding .msi and you are done.
If you want to see which graphics are compatible with the driver you can open the .inf and scroll down to find the section called Localizable Strings or you can go to the driver page.
