Amd Driver Scewed up (I think)

[mattdust]

So I'm in deep trouble. Yesterday I purchased Rainbow Six siege and when I opened it the textures were completely messed up. Unfazed, I thought it seemed a fixable issue. after digging around I found this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AopuFk__Bg). Same issue. He told me to go to Programs and Features in Control Center and uninstall the Catalyst thing. I did so. From that point on however, I cannot access the Programs and Features. When I click it, all my desktop seems to refresh itself and it doesn't open. Worse, when I installed the driver, at the end it said it could not dectect any AMD hardware. I also opended up Rainbow six to see that I was getting like 6 FPS as apposed to my 45-60 yesterday. So now I am driverless, control planelless, and I think my computer stopped recognizing my Deticated GPU. Still digging for a solution on the web. Please help.

P.S. Whenever I download the Crimson driver directly from AMD my computer says that it is corrupted.

Also, I am using a MacBook Pro on bootcamp but I don't think that really matters in this.
AMD Radeon R9 M370X With 2 GBs

 

[thejackal85]

The first thing I would try is a system restore. You can find this in Start>Programs>Accessories>System Tools>System Restore, or by searching for it if you have some other OS. I would try restoring your computer back to another time. If you try once and it fails, that's almost always normal; just try again on a different date.

 

[mattdust]

The first thing I would try is a system restore. You can find this in Start>Programs>Accessories>System Tools>System Restore, or by searching for it if you have some other OS. I would try restoring your computer back to another time. If you try once and it fails, that's almost always normal; just try again on a different date.

So I found a "reset this PC" option but it required me to remove almost all of my data on this computer and reinstall it later. Is this necessary? Also, I discovered that the main problem is that I cant open or access any file that are in file explorer. Meaning I cant access any external drive or my downloads folder at all. I think I found the Boot Camp drivers I need, but I cant use it due to not being able to open the downloads folder. When I try, the items on the desktop just flash for a sec and nothing happens. So, it remains that I don't have a display adapter for my good GPU. and I cant install one thanks to not being to access the file explorer.

P.S. the current display adapter is Microsoft Basic Display Adapter.

P.P.S. If I right click the start menu and us the Run window I can bypass the whole desktop flash thing. But when I go to install the driver, it gives me an error at the end saying "No AMD hardware was detected" this is making me so freaking angry

 

[thejackal85]

No, the reset PC will take it back to the factory default settings. Although that is a viable option, you don't want to do that just yet. You want to find System Restore, it will restore your computer back to a previous time when it was all working.

Try with the system restore and if it works, it will fix your Windows Explorer and GPU problem. If it turns out it doesn't, I will help you tackle that when/if it happens.

 

[mattdust]

No, the reset PC will take it back to the factory default settings. Although that is a viable option, you don't want to do that just yet. You want to find System Restore, it will restore your computer back to a previous time when it was all working.

Try with the system restore and if it works, it will fix your Windows Explorer and GPU problem. If it turns out it doesn't, I will help you tackle that when/if it happens.

Ok, so I dug up a system restore option under the system protection tap in system properties. But I have nothing to restore it to. The only option I have is to create a point now which I definitely not doing.

 

[thejackal85]

Damn, well, there went that idea. I hate to say it, Matt, but the only option you have left is to do the restore option you found earlier. You can retrieve the data off your HDD (if it's still good) by hooking it up as a slave to another system and putting it all on an external thumb drive or whatever. Wish we had a better answer for you.

 

[mattdust]

Damn, well, there went that idea. I hate to say it, Matt, but the only option you have left is to do the restore option you found earlier. You can retrieve the data off your HDD (if it's still good) by hooking it up as a slave to another system and putting it all on an external thumb drive or whatever. Wish we had a better answer for you.

Well I appreciate your help. It's gonna be a huge pain to copy everything back over, luckily I did a backup of all my important file when I noticed something was messed up. I just hope the reset will get the job done. 🙁

 

[thejackal85]

It will, the reset option will take your computer back to the state of if you're just pulling it out of the box. Sorry to be the dude of bad tidings, but at least in some way, this can get fixed.

 

[mattdust]

Well, ik its been a little while but resetting the computer worked. It was a royal pain to reinstall everything off of my external HD though. Rainbow six siege had another weird hiccup (I had to dive into GPU driver code) but now its fine. I appreciate your help tremendously.

 

[thejackal85]

You are very welcome!