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Can't "keep" PRO driver RX6800XT

PLAfiller

PLAfiller

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Greetings all,

so a few days ago I got myself an used RX6800XT. Anyhow, I installed the PRO divers instead of the Adrenaline, because I rarely play.

However, after a few restarts the blue icon is replaced with the red one and it no longer says PRO driver, but adrenaline, but at the same it's not the "full" adrenaline?

I mean card is great, but stuff like this is pretty annoying. Never happened to me between studio and geforce drivers....

I have turned off automatic driver installation, but I am on windows 11 Home, so I don't have access to the gpedit.msc trick.

Any ideas is it even possible to fix this or just install the Adrenaline and live with it?
 
Make sure any automatic updates in the software and windows are turned off and no downloads from Windows update itself.
 
Some follow up....I gave up. There is no fixing. The PRO driver installs succefully with all the features, but after one or two shut downs windows just overrides it. There is no fixing. I just fresh installed the full Adrenaline suit and that's it.
 
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PLAfiller said:
I have turned off automatic driver installation, but I am on windows 11 Home, so I don't have access to the gpedit.msc trick.
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How to disable automatic driver install on Windows 11 - Pureinfotech

To disable automatic install on Windows 11, open Advanced system settings, and in “Device Installation Settings,” turn off the option.
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Disable automatic driver install from Registry​

If you use Windows 11 Home, you won’t have access to the Local Group Policy Editor. However, you can disable the feature through the Registry.

Warning: It’s essential to note that modifying the Windows Registry can cause serious problems if not used properly. It’s assumed you know what you’re doing and have created a full backup of your system before proceeding.
  1. Open Start.
  2. Search for regedit and click the top result to open the Registry.
  3. Browse the following path:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DriverSearching
  4. Double-click the SearchOrderConfig DWORD key, and change its value from 1 to 0.

    Registry disable driver automatic install
  5. Click OK.
  6. Restart the computer.
Once you complete the steps, setting SearchOrderConfig to 0 will block drivers from updating every time Windows 11 checks for new updates.

You can always revert the changes using the same steps, but in step 4, change the DWORD key value from 0 to 1.
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Might also need to disable Device Metadata Retrieval, too.
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Manage connections from Windows 10 and Windows 11 Server/Enterprise editions operating system components to Microsoft services - Windows Privacy

Learn how to minimize connections from Windows to Microsoft services, and configure particular privacy settings related to these connections.
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PLAfiller said:
Some follow up....I gave up. There is no fixing. The PRO driver installs succefully with all the features, but after one or two shut downs windows just overrides it. There is no fixing. I just fresh installed the full Adrenaline suit and that's it.
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If the card is re-registering itself to UEFI after a cold boot (CSM related?), this could cause the driver to re-detect the card, as if it were a different RX 6800 (defaulting back to the Radeon Adrenalin driver profile). I've never seen this come up on such a new card, but recently had that happen w/ an RX580.




Not sure if their drivers are still as good as they were a few years back, but...
The Radeon.ID driver should allow you to permanently use the 'pro' featureset, effectively making your card a Radeon PRO W6800 16GB.

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rdn-id.com

R.ID - AMD 3rd Party Drivers

A new way of Multi-Driver optimization
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LabRat 891 said:
Might also need to disable Device Metadata Retrieval, too.
learn.microsoft.com

Manage connections from Windows 10 and Windows 11 Server/Enterprise editions operating system components to Microsoft services - Windows Privacy

Learn how to minimize connections from Windows to Microsoft services, and configure particular privacy settings related to these connections.
learn.microsoft.com



If the card is re-registering itself to UEFI after a cold boot (CSM related?), this could cause the driver to re-detect the card, as if it were a different RX 6800 (defaulting back to the Radeon Adrenalin driver profile). I've never seen this come up on such a new card, but recently had that happen w/ an RX580.




Not sure if their drivers are still as good as they were a few years back, but...
The Radeon.ID driver should allow you to permanently use the 'pro' featureset, effectively making your card a Radeon PRO W6800 16GB.

View attachment 401225

rdn-id.com

R.ID - AMD 3rd Party Drivers

A new way of Multi-Driver optimization
rdn-id.com rdn-id.com
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This isnt hard to do in XP-11
 
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