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sdstncl
Journeyman III

Moving from Nvidia GPUs to AMD

Hi, I've recently bought a Radeon RX 6800 XT and am having trouble installing driver software for it. In order to use this new gpu, you need the driver software. Without it, the GPU won't work. Which means, I can't use the GPU to install the driver for it. My old GPU is a Nvidia product, and when attempting to download any driver software, I get error 182 - AMD Software Installer detected AMD graphics hardware in your system configuration that is not supported. This wouldn't be an issue if my motherboard could house 2 GPU's or if my CPU had integrated graphics, but it has neither. I can't download the graphics drivers with an Nvidia GPU and I can't use the Radeon GPU becase there aren't any drivers installed. Is there a different way that I'm supposed to do this? Any advice would be welcome!

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MADZyren
Paragon

You don't need drivers to get in to Windows with any GPU. Windows has kind of a simple 'backup' drivers which can't do anything special like play complex games, but they still enable you to operate Windows.

Start by removing all remnants of Nvidia and AMD drivers, restart machine

Download AMD drivers from https://www.amd.com/en/support  and install

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MADZyren
Paragon

You don't need drivers to get in to Windows with any GPU. Windows has kind of a simple 'backup' drivers which can't do anything special like play complex games, but they still enable you to operate Windows.

Start by removing all remnants of Nvidia and AMD drivers, restart machine

Download AMD drivers from https://www.amd.com/en/support  and install