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General Category => Geek / Games Discussion => Topic started by: Sandman[SA] on November 15, 2025, 01:34:03 pm
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I'm posting this because I've run into this problem several times now. And on multiple machines. Windows update has been making a bad habit of downloading drivers that the user had not authorized. In my case, AMD graphics drivers are being downloaded and installed silently by windows update manager. This then causes the Adrenalin software package to bug out and crash when it tries to automatically update itself. The effect, random and aggressive hitching and / or sudden black screens while the drivers try to recover from a crash. You may even see a warning message popup stating that your hardware has changed and your system requires a restart. So, if anyone else notices their system showing those symptoms after a windows update had recently installed, try manually updating your graphics software and drivers from your graphics card vender's web site.
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I'm posting this because I've run into this problem several times now. And on multiple machines. Windows update has been making a bad habit of downloading drivers that the user had not authorized. In my case, AMD graphics drivers are being downloaded and installed silently by windows update manager. This then causes the Adrenalin software package to bug out and crash when it tries to automatically update itself. The effect, random and aggressive hitching and / or sudden black screens while the drivers try to recover from a crash. You may even see a warning message popup stating that your hardware has changed and your system requires a restart. So, if anyone else notices their system showing those symptoms after a windows update had recently installed, try manually updating your graphics software and drivers from your graphics card vender's web site.
I had a feeling that updates were now a backdoor preparation for Win 11.
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I had a feeling that updates were now a backdoor preparation for Win 11.
Umm, don't start slamming win11 on this just yet, it's been happening to me several months before win10 eol. It seems a previous win10 patch re-enabled a feature in windows update to download and install what MS thinks is important for your system. This would include updated drivers for some hardware you currently have. Just remember to go into windows update > advanced settings and turn that feature off if you don't want it.
In my case, I have things like my sound card and video card software packages setup to notify me of an update and download it if it can. It's just that windows update was trying to do the same when I thought I had turned it off long ago.