PC Drivers & Software

[ramihaidafy]

When updating to a new Adrenalin driver, a restart is required for the AMD Software to run, which is inconvenient but understandable.

What baffles me is that even if you shut down your PC and boot it the next day, AMD software will still say that a restart is required.

Why is it that a restart is strictly required but a shut down and boot up is insufficient?

[CaligoVereor]

Do you have fast boot (or fast startup) enabled in your Windows settings? Because if you do then doing a shut down doesn't "properly" shut everything down in order to decrease bootup times. Restart, however, does a full reboot. And fast startup is usually on by default unless you specifically turn it off (even then it can be re-enabled by a Windows update).