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How does one manually restart graphics drivers?
To reset the graphics stack in Windows, press Win+Ctrl+Shift+B.
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What is 'clean install' vs 'install' in AMD Graphics software?
Install - regular install without removing old drivers/software.
Clean Install - use in a situation like an upgrade from previous version. The clean install will remove the old drivers first and then ...
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How to get X to ignore my primary GPU?
So after a lot of digging I found that the answer lies here, in the descriptions of the options available for xorg's "OutputClass" section:
Option "PrimaryGPU" "boolean"
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Radeon HD 4670 driver for Windows 10
There never were any drivers for that card in Win10. It was legacied before Win10 was announced.
Best you might do is the appropriate Win 8 diver from https://www.amd.com/en/support/graphics/amd-...
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VGA temperature is allegedly 511 °C
If it was a proper value, your computer would have caught fire, I think.
Notice: decimal 511 = binary 111111111.
This may be a software bug or a sensor error. I mean: something didn't know what the ...
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How does one manually restart graphics drivers?
You could also use ToastyX's awesome restart utilty.
Inside the CRU zip file downloaded from the link above, you'll find two utilities named restart.exe and restart64.exe that can be used to restart ...
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Windows Creators Update broke my AMD driver - how can I fix it?
It seems that Microsoft or AMD have decided to ship an "update" to the driver, which actually just ends up disabling it. Presumably this is due to its unsupported nature and in order to drive more ...
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Laptop brightness adjustment not working AMD graphics card
This issue affects lots of AMD cards and drivers. The fix is as follows.
Go to the registry editor (start > regedit)
Change both of the following registries to 0
KMD_EnableBrightnessInterface2
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How to know what is the maximum supported resolution by my GPU?
The first result on Google for AMD radeon HD 8600/8700M is this page:
http://www.amd.com/en-gb/products/graphics/notebook/8700m-8800m
It includes a link to a PDF document for full specifications for ...
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Will installing Debian firmware affect Windows 10?
Well, you already have an answer at Unix SE. I’ll repeat the facts quickly:
This type of firmware is saved in volatile memory (no flashing involved)
It will typically not affect Windows at all
You ...
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Can I use both Integrated and Discrete graphics for increased FPS?
You cannot combine their power.
To do so would require a lot of management and knowledge of the strengths of each GPU and preferably game support as well.
Ideally graphics processors require ...
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Intel HD Graphics And Radeon Graphics
Quite often, laptops will have two graphics chips.
Will AMD graphics cause conflict with the installed Intel graphics driver?
Not unless something goes wrong, in laptops they usually supplement ...
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Reset/purge OC profile without opening AMD crimson / radeon settings
Got it! I'll leave this here for anyone else with this issue.
The crux of it was DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller), but these were my exact steps:
(Boot into safe mode first)
Not sure if this helped ...
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How to stop windows resizing when the monitor display channel is turned off / switched to different source
Highly recommend a pure software solution "PersistentWindows" ( original version ), as mentioned by previous posts.
The application keeps track of window size/location, and automatically restores ...
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Confirm correctly working of hardware acceleration in Chrome (Windows 7)?
YouTube uses VP9 format on Chrome and hardware accelerated decoding for VP9 is not supported on older chips. If your GPU or APU supports h264, you can use h264ify Chrome extension to force YouTube to ...
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Unreadable text at native resolution 2560x1440
You’re using a Single-Link DVI cable. This is not enough for 2560×1440@60Hz:
Single link DVI employs a single 165 MHz transmitter that supports resolutions up to 1920 × 1200 at 60 Hz.
(Wikipedia)
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Can I connect two external monitors to a laptop has two graphic cards (embedded and external)?
While I couldn't find an official statement that the laptop can handle three displays, if you look up your video card it does show up on Intel's list of supported three-display configurations. I'm ...
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Which one is best Radeon Software Crimson Edition Beta or Catalyst Software Suite?
This is one of those rare "which is best" questions that actually has a valid, evidence-based answer.
When AMD abandoned this generation of GPUs, they left you with 2 choices, the last ever release ...
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what is the difference between Radeon Software Crimson and AMD Catalyst Control Center
I've followed, or digged through a similar question on the NVidia side with older GPUs (specifically a 8800 GTS) and there was a consensus that older drivers are better optimized for older gpus.
While ...
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How to determine max supportable display resolution?
The monitor sends out EDID data which contains the monitors ability list.
See here for more details.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/114359/how-to-get-edid-for-a-single-monitor
How do you ...
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Change Windows low resolution smoothing algorithm
2017+ update
Since the answer was posted, Blizzard rewritten Starcraft rendering completely, so methods described no longer work with that game. It should now have an upscaler built in, and brand new ...
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How to install AMD drivers in a offline installation
Download manually from any connected computer, then copy over by local network, USB stick etc
Official Driver download page - http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
Latest drivers for cards old & ...
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AMD Radeon settings: "to ensure compatibility this application is locked" for important apps like chrome
This is only half a solution, as it's not "free", but I'm really happy I found it, and it never occurred to me until today, so I'm going to share it. I bought a new laptop, one with a nVidia GPU (...
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AMD RX 570 vs nVidia GTX 1060 - can there be a substantial difference in rendering ingame 3D scene?
Driver settings can overwrite in-game settings. There are many things to consider, but from what you describe it appears that on the NVIDIA graphics card you actually have lower general settings - ...
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Why does MSI afterburner grey out the values for voltage, Temp, Core clock, memory clock etc
Change the theme of MSI Afterburner. I had the same problem with a GTX 960 and that fixed it. Everything is now useable.
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Why does MSI afterburner grey out the values for voltage, Temp, Core clock, memory clock etc
You have to run an application or game which uses your amd graphics card. I had this same issue so just run an application and open afterburner then it will display the values...
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How to Rotate some of the display but no them all with AMD Eyefinity
That should work with AMD Eyefinity, yes! The key is that you have to set the orientation of each monitor at the time when you create the "display group" in Eyefinity - you can't change the ...
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How to change brightness in FreeBSD?
In FreeBSD 13 the backlight(8) utility was introduced.
backlight -f /dev/backlight/backlight0 10
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Cut gpu power in laptop?
Sounds like a very bad idea.
Laptops aren't desktops, you can't randomly add or remove parts. Laptop's BIOS is built to support specific hardware and expects it to be present at all times.
Desktop PC ...
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