Are these updated via AMD Adrenaline supposed to be used or is there going to be specific driver updates from Framework itself?
You can use them “at your own risk” since not officially validated by FW yet. Having said that I have been using them with no issues getting them from AMD as soon as AMD release a new version. However, I have a FW16 Ryzen9 7940HS not a desktop. Again, it may be working fine for my use case and you may encounter instability for your use case or it will be just fine…Therefore, the caveat “at your own risk” 
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I recommend installing the software and upgrading the chipset drivers. There is a Quality setting in there that I think makes games stand out more, and helps with FPS thrashing. I have not experienced any issues with games crashing and I spend a lot of time playing games on this machine. The performance on this iGPU is top notch.
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Thanks for the info. I don’t play games though - I use the machine for video production.
I would recommend against trying to update via manufactures drivers as also suggested in other posts, stick with the framework provided drivers.
…and the “Instability while Gaming (AMD Graphics Drivers Crash – Alot)” thread.
I just tried updating myself to the Adrenalin 25.10.2 drivers and instantly received a black screen. Nothing I tried worked, it also corrupts the chipset drivers since it defaults to updating those as well but fails to do so.
I had to reboot into safe mode and run the AMD Driver Cleanup utility and then re-install the AMD Gfx and Chipset drivers provided by framework.
I tried multiple times to install these drivers, updating, clean install, safe mode, with and without updating chipset drivers. Nothing worked and resulted in the same black screen the instant it says installing video card drivers and your screen may flicker.
A thing of note is that when you “update” the drivers the video card detected is AMD Radeon Graphics. However after you run the Cleanup Utility and try to do the install with the new drivers it then detects it as the Radeon 8060S.
This is probably one of the worst driver updates I’ve dealt with in the last 30yrs. I find it a bit ridiculous that you have to use the vendor provided drivers for a product they don’t even make. I don’t know what extra magic they do in order to have the drivers install correctly, but they must do something to the drivers in order to make it work.
Also that means we are limited to using only drivers that get certified and updated by framework. Looking at their Drivers Download page, they appear to drop support after sometime by the looks of it since the intel product line for the laptops haven’t been updated in over a year.
Does framework even have a driver support lifecycle? Like do they release driver updates for all there products every 3 months, 6 months, once a year… or is it just whenever they feel like it?
Pretty disappointing since it appears we can’t update directly from the manufacture’s provided drivers for the products they make. Not sure if this only affects AMD though, kind of hesitant to try updating other manufacture’s drivers now.
Anyway that’s my two cents on the topic.
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Sadly no idea what it going wrong on your system, I’ve been using the drivers from the AMD page for the Max+ linked in the thread on Win11 22H2 with no issues, just had to switch from the stock drivers to 25.9.1 WHQL because MSI Afterburner wouldn’t recognize the stock drivers.
For diagnostic purposes (display power saving not working properly) I’ve been switching on a clean test installation of Win11 22H2 between stock drivers and 25.10.2 WHQL multiple times, no issues either.
If it may help here are the names and sizes of the driver packages I’m using:
whql-amd-software-adrenalin-edition-25.9.1-win10-win11-sep-rdna.exe, 956.498.632 bytes
whql-amd-software-adrenalin-edition-25.10.2-win10-win11-oct-rdna3.exe, 947.408.704 bytes
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Not sure what’s going on, but I installed the later file referenced, I also tried the automatic one as well from AMD’s site. I tried turning off the monitor, and even unplugging the DP connector from the framework desktop to try and re-establish the display connection.
Maybe it’s because I am on the latest and greatest Windows 11 Pro 25H2 with all default security features enabled, by the way you may want to look at upgrading Windows. Win11 22H2 is not even supported anymore.
However when you do a search online, seems like AMD drivers in general have been plagued with black screen issues over the years for various driver versions.
I have been using I Intel and Nvidia for the last 20yrs or so, never had a problem like this. Sure maybe some driver instability here and there, but nothing that prevents you from even booting into Windows.
I am also on Win11 Pro 25H2 and quite frankly not seeing any issues. There is the occasional sleep issues and Realtek ethernet connectivity problems but as long as you stay on the latest updates available they should be able to hammer these out. All software releases are beta. The AMD Ryzen AI Max is relatively new so you should expect some bumps on the road.
I strongly suspect this is a HUGE difficulty for AMD. They have a very small driver team and normally they break things up into generation, RDNA, RDNA2, 3, and now 4 with the RX9000 series.
And then there’s Strix Halo, which is “RDNA 3.5”. I think we’re in a goofy place where we have this one and only instruction set APU/GPU that isn’t shared with any other APU or dGPU. I am hopeful that this will really take off and AMD devotes good resources to it, but we also just saw them announce they’re abandoning RDNA 1 & 2 already, even though they still have RDNA2 products being released this year in the form of laptop APUs with RDNA2 integrated graphics.
I’ve used AMD for years now and honestly they keep pushing me back to Intel/Nvidia every other time I upgrade because of chipset problems (desktop) or random black screen or crash on wake from sleep (GPUs) and similar issues. Maybe now that they’re swimming in AI money they’ll put a little bit of that cash into their drivers starting with RDNA3.x and later? We can hope, but the fact they abandoned RDNA2 while it’s still in current gen APU products is disheartening.
Hopefully I’ll have my system in a week or two and I’ve just resigned myself to making the best of it with Windows unless and until I can get all my workflow working under linux in the coming year.
Not sure what’s unique about my Windows Install, but tried again and used DDU in safe mode this time instead with the same result.
For clarity as well, the black screen is actually the monitor going to sleep due to no display signal. As soon as the driver is installed, the monitor then gets no display signal and go’s to sleep. No amount of restarting, monitor power off/on or DP cable re-plugs make any difference. Yet the drivers in the framework pack work like a charm, as expected.
It’s great how the norm now a days is to ship products and software with issues and to simply “fix” them later. Kind of miss the old days, there was more attention to quality control back then I feel.
So I guess I’ll just have to roll the dice on the next update, so far there’s a 50/50 chance it will work.
Using the Framework_Desktop_AMD_Ryzen_AI_Max_300_driver_bundle_W11_v101_2025_07_10.exe I have blurred picture at the top, and I need to change the display refresh rate to lower to fix that. Also using Ollama I am getting crashes or computer becomes irresponsive.
Using other AMD official WHQL certified drivers I get black screen, also need to lower refresh rates. Also during AI computations the desktop becomes sometimes irresponsive until the agentic chat finishes.
Using the official framework drivers although everything is stable but AMD software is not supporting AI applications.
OMG, thanks for the tip.
So the old AMD drivers (framework driver pack) work just fine at 240hz on my Samsung Odyssey Neo G9, however, the new drivers cause the monitor to loose the display signal and go to sleep.
Solution: Set the display to 120hz instead before updating the drivers, and now the new AMD drivers work just fine. I think I’ll leave the display at 120hz to avoid an future problems.
Probably a silly question, but is there any way to get the latest AMD chipset / GPU firmware upgraded on Linux outside of when it’s released by Ubuntu?
