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.