Quote Originally Posted by misterwuggles View Post
Yeah I did the same recently and I've been okay for 3 solid days and counting. I expect it to still crash at some point, but it's probably stable enough to play. My issue was I underestimated just how persistent Windows 10 is with updating your drivers in the background so that's KEY. If you're trying to use an old AMD driver like 16.3.2--which is the version in which they fixed this issue back during HW--Windows is going to apply a newer version if it has it. You might be able to cut out some steps but this is basically what I did:

1. Delete your Windows store driver. Mine was from April 2017 so anything older was being replaced with this without any notification or restart required.
2. Set Windows to not include drivers with Windows Update in group policy.
3. Switch Device Installation Settings to not update stuff automatically.
4. Do a clean uninstall of existing drivers with DDU/AMD Cleanup in safe mode.
5. Re-install 16.3.2 drivers (or something else from this era if you think something is going to be more stable) and restart.
6. Give it some time and restart again just to make sure Windows 10 isn't installing a newer driver.

I included all the details of what I experienced in my ticket with AMD so hopefully that'll help get the fix into a newer driver. AMD's support while they didn't actually fix anything actually seemed to have read my email and had a good suggestion (to try 16.3.2 which specifically fixed this issue in HW). SE's support on the other hand gave me a list of generic things to try that I already tried and specifically detailed in my original email then closed the ticket. I'm going to say if you can't get it working with old drivers you're just going to have to wait for the fix to make it into a new one because SE doesn't really give a hoot.
How does one stop windows 10 from updating drivers?