Windows 11's Latest Cumulative Update Breaks AMD Adrenalin Control Panel

Radeon RX 6000 Series
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According to a community post on the AMD forums, Microsoft's latest cumulative preview update KB5030310 can break AMD's Adrenalin graphics control panel and can cause custom settings to be reset inside the control panel every time the system reboots. Thankfully, Microsoft's latest update does not break graphics driver functionality, but it will be irritating for users that use the Adrenalin control panel a lot.

According to responses on the AMD forum, several AMD users have experienced this Adreanlin resetting problem with the latest Windows update.

The issue isn't super serious, AMD's graphics drivers still work fine, and the Adrenalin control panel is functional, save for the part where custom user settings get reset at every reboot. So if you are a regular graphics card user and leave everything at their default settings, you shouldn't have any issues. But if you are an enthusiast and love to tinker with all of AMD's fancy features like Hyper RX, Anti-Lag, Radeon Boost, or RSR, this problem could be very frustrating to deal with.

Microsoft's latest cumulative preview update isn't huge, but it ironically provides a plethora of bug fixes for Windows 11. Some of these fixes include a fixes surrounding Excel, the Korean touch keyboard, the search box tooltip, the search button, sleep mode, iCloud Calendar, and Contacts. For full details check out Microsoft's patch notes.

If you own a Radeon GPU, it would probably be best to wait on this update. Apparently, the problem can also be fixed by uninstalling the update if you have already installed it. Though this issue has only been confirmed from the AMD community forum post we mentioned above, so there's a chance some Radeon users won't be affected.

Aaron Klotz
Contributing Writer

Aaron Klotz is a contributing writer for Tom’s Hardware, covering news related to computer hardware such as CPUs, and graphics cards.

  • Order 66
    Yay! who doesn't love driver-breaking windows updates? /s
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  • Dr3ams
    Haven't had any problems. That's probably because I don't let Adrenalin make any adjustments to my games. I do all the adjustments by using the internal game settings.

    It's kind of like using the included software equalizer from your motherboard in addition to your media player's equalizer, when all you really need is just one.
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  • Alvar "Miles" Udell
    That's what these beta "preview" releases are for, to catch problems before wide release. If you don't want problems, don't be a beta tester, and delay updates for 30 days past release.
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  • Makaveli
    lol thank myself everyday for staying on Win10
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  • vanadiel007
    Dr3ams said:
    Haven't had any problems. That's probably because I don't let Adrenalin make any adjustments to my games. I do all the adjustments by using the internal game settings.

    It's kind of like using the included software equalizer from your motherboard in addition to your media player's equalizer, when all you really need is just one.

    There are many Adrenalin settings that cannot be accessed from the gaming control menu. You should really check out what Adrenalin settings have to offer, as you will be leaving performance and quality settings on the table when not using some Adrenalin only features...
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  • vertuallinsanity
    Looks like another potential short-term fix is to disable Windows Copilot which also happens to be a bit wonky as a result of this update.

    https://www.windowslatest.com/2023/09/30/windows-11-kb5030310-issues-moment-4-september-26-patch-is-buggy/
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  • TechieTwo
    It's a Microsoft "feature"... :(
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  • Colif
    both versions of moment 4 can break... 5030310 and 5030509 are the same update, one if just the preview.

    it says it "can" break them, it doesn't say it will.

    several AMD users have experienced this Adrenalin resetting problem with the latest Windows update.

    Can anyone name an update that didn't possibly break someones PC? No? several users isn't everyone...

    this is hardly news, its more snafu...
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  • USAFRet
    Colif said:
    Can anyone name an update that didn't possibly break someones PC?
    Every update, across every platform, in the history of ever...some users will be negatively affected.
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  • AlbertAZ
    Admin said:
    Windows 11's latest cumulative update is reportedly breaking AMD's Radeon Adrenalin control panel, causing it to not save user-customized settings after a reboot.

    Windows 11's Latest Cumulative Update Breaks AMD Adrenalin Control Panel : Read more
    When I installed the update Adrenalin disappeared. Reinstalled it and so far so good but I have never used it to finetune my RX 580 card
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