▷ Amd drivers: how to uninstall them

Have you ever uninstalled AMD drivers incompletely ? We teach you the two essential methods to remove AMD drivers from your PC.

Many problems usually arise when we do not update the drivers cleanly or we want to uninstall the AMD drivers because we have changed the graphics card. The issue is that they are problems that have an easy solution; For this reason, we bring you three very easy methods to follow in order to eliminate the drivers correctly.

When we refer to “AMD drivers”, we refer to CPU and GPU, that is, AMD Radeon drivers, such as AMD processor drivers. Pay attention because we have made two different categories for CPU drivers and graphics drivers.

Index of contents

Uninstalling graphics drivers

From here, we show you how you can uninstall the drivers of your AMD graphics cards.

Official AMD drivers uninstall method

Before explaining what the official method is like, we have to divide this explanation into operating systems. Therefore, the steps change depending on the operating system you have.

Windows Vista or Windows 7

1. The first thing to do is go to the control panel. You can go in several ways:
   • Opening the start menu and looking for "Control Panel". Directly right-clicking on the Windows logo of start. Opening start and giving control panel.
   Go to Programs and Features. Locate AMD Catalyst Install Manager or AMD Software and uninstall it.
   • In the event that you get "Catalyst", you will get a menu where we can repair, uninstall or uninstall all AMD software. Choose this last option. In the event that you get AMD Software, you will get a warning asking if you want to uninstall. Click on it and it will start to uninstall. Finally, if you are asked about Windows security (UAC), say yes.
   Following the process, AMD Catalyst will give us the option to uninstall all versions or the current one. Uninstall all of them. When you finish you have to restart the computer for the uninstallation to complete.

Windows 10 or Windows 8.1

1. Go to the control panel. You can use the detailed forms in Windows 7 or Vista. Go to Programs and Features. Locate AMD Catalyst Install Manager or AMD Software. Uninstall it, restart your computer and voila!

Windows XP and Windows 2000

You have to think about updating a bit. Hey! Nothing happens, we tell you how the process is done.

1. Open the start menu and enter the control panel. Search for "Add or remove programs" and enter. Search for AMD Catalyst Install Manager and click on "Change". Follow the uninstall steps and restart.

Uninstallation method with DDU

If you have come this far, it means that neither of the above two solutions have helped you. Do not worry because there are still options to leave your PC flawless. We are sorry to say that it is only compatible from Windows Vista as a minimum.

On this occasion, we present a third-party program called Display Driver Unistaller (DDU), a tool that is widely used by the community to remove remnants of graphic drivers on the PC. It must be said that it works for both AMD drivers and Nvidia drivers.

Let's start!

With this we finish our tutorial on how to uninstall AMD drivers step by step.