didn’t work for me, what did work was deleting %localappdata%/AMD/CN/gmdb.blb.

How bizarre.

I’ll keep this in mind if I come across this bug.

This solution would only make sense if the problem (Adrenalin crashing/failing to launch) was caused by the game detection part of Adrenalin throwing an unhandled exception when trying to access the Epic Games Launcher folder. Perhaps the permissions/ownership of the folder were changed to restrict who can access the Logs folder, and the game detection routine does not fail gracefully if it can’t access the folder properly. That would be bad programming practice, since you never can rely on files on the filesystem being there at all times and under all configurations.

And if that is the case, then some other software that also requires privileged access for their folders would also cause that.

A bad thing to try in this case: Try starting Adrenalin with Administrator privileges. This should not be done for normal usage, and since Adrenalin has a lot of attack surface, it should not be a real solution.

I don’t have this problem, although I have several different launchers installed.

worked for me

I’m just buying an nvidia card next time. Cba doing more fixes.

Why I uninstalled Epic games launcher years ago and don’t play anything from them - always caused weird issues.

Something I’ve noticed only in the latest drivers (might have had it before) on my 5700XT, when fps is near the fos cap I set (with Vsync, freesync or any other fps limiter) I hear something like coolwine, but not the high pitched I did a few times, something like with more base/deep

I couldn’t open it randomly 2 days later was able too . Didn’t change anything … just remember trying to open it to check settings while playing MW3 … closed game out when done tried opening … nada … shut down bc didn’t feel like going down rabbit hole . Next day same but only on for 10 mins following day opened … go figure

wow I can’t believe the whole time it’s some appdata caused it, I don’t even have EpicGamesLauncher installed at the time, it’s some left over data.

Thanks for forwarding the solution here. Finally I can go with the stable driver, not preview driver just to use the adrenalin software.

lmao wild

Wait so this is why Fortnite always crashes my driver all of a sudden?? I was wondering why it started weeks after my last adrenalin update.

I wound up just installing the display driver standalone without Adrenalin and it’s been working fine since.

I just installed 23.11.1 and last night it was again crashing windows explorer. I mean, drives and folders are taking longer to load with or without the stupid green search bar for two things on a drive or folder. “Working on it.” I know it’s Radeon, because literally every time since like 15 something, they’ve all been unstable. It, just happened again while I was wanting find the folder I kept the Driver Version Downloaded to. I said, “Never mind, life’s too short.”

If a bug exists and amd can reproduce it then it gets fixed
There is no ignoring such

we dont need conspiracy theories

Why does this work? It worked. WTF

Is there a fix for those of us without Epic Games Launcher?