Originally posted by skeevy420
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Also, download dozen different drivers from widely different year/month (Guru3D is good source, allowing downloading far older driver packages than you can get from AMD's own site),
Unpack them exes with 7z and uninstall official current one along with its additional crap (Radeon ReLive and whatnot).
Use driver cleaning utilities if need be. Then install and test bunch of downloaded/unpacked drivers one-by-one using 3dmark or equivalent. Install through Windows Device Manager by selecting relevant graphic driver .inf file manually.
Said .inf files contain driver installation routines and thus you install bare minimum of software to get GPU going with 3D accel. support.
If you need screenshots, fan profiles - you can use MSI Afterburner. You need streaming/video clipping? - install OBS Studio - its FOSS. You dont really need that bloated extra software AMD wraps around their drivers.
Since your GPU is older, test lots of drivers, often you get better perf with namely older drivers, newer ones are mostly optimized for newer cards. My Vega 64 has been rock solid this way.
My 2 cents.
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