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Hi, I just found this thread, and I had to become a member so I can participate with testing.
I have been going through a lot of AMD drivers while mixing and matching them to perform well, but none work in the lastest build of Windows.
To help with troubleshooting, I found using AMD later builds of Catalyst installed after installing AMD drivers help.
Also I installed the latest builds of C++ (2005 on up to latest builds). I also check and remove all older installs of C++ variants that are pushed by any driver packages during their installations.
Installed all the DX packages from online installer.
Disabled DX12 withing the program features.
Trouble is no matter how I setup the system, drivers, AMD device disabled, or bios setting... the boot up into desktop will be fast and very low fan use, but eventually the speed increases to medium. I found if I disable the AMD driver it will disable the chip, but not the ram. If I leave the AMD driver enabled, it will place ram and gpu speeds in stand by or low power mode at minimum base speeds. So any way, the AMD graphics is never totally controlled by the drivers.
Also having the bios set at Fixed, it removes all BSOD issues, just some drivers will allow random in and out pop ups of black window processes from Catalyst control manager. Some are blank screen or a 1 to 2 second window.
I like the WDDM drivers over the drivers released by automatic update. Bare Crimson drivers done by inf install, are ok.
Though no true fix for interplay with Intel and Windows 10.
Some drivers seem to allow proper config, but in reality WIndows 10 does not allow proper switch mode with 2011 system boards using H65 chipsets. Also some chipsets may be early 2011, not late 2011. Intel has found that early 2011 chipsets are bad. they only function well with pci-e ports 0 and 1, which our systems use more than the two ports. i have a late motherboad, but I fee thatl I have the older chips set. I truely feel no 2011 system board will properly function with switch graphics because of the intel chip flaw.
it would be nice to have a driver to disable the AMD gpu and ram for those with H65 chipsets who have issues with WIndows 10 and AMD drivers. reason being the GPU or RAM will run in background even if not used, and consume power and raise fan speeds. because of this, I have been modding my laptops cooling system to compensate for the additional power use with dedicated AMD graphics not having full ability to shut down, which the system is capable of doing by bios routine.
I am still trying various options as i find time for, as the best option is keeping a minimal AMD driver installation, with fixed set in bios.