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We are installing Radeon drivers on Windows 2016. We have used Windows 10 x64 driver package.
Card: Sapphire AMD RX 480 8GB
OS: Windows 2016 server x64.
When performing installation, driver installer says that is unable to locate a valid hardware. However, we can install manually via device manager providing a «Have a disk» driver pointing to drivers folder. However, this does not install all required apps (for example control panel).
P.D: On Windows 2012 R2 with Windows 8.1 driver package (x64) there is no problem.
Thanks in advance.
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These products are not supported under Windows Server 2016.
The only supported OS’s are 64 bit Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.
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Yes, OK, I understand.
However you have to take into consideration that due to licensing restrictions you cannot use desktop OS (Win 10, 8 or 7) to provide accelerated GPU applications remotely. This is a restriction imposed by Microsoft at EULA.
And since Windows 2012 R2 runs perfectly with Windows 8.1 drivers, I don’t understand why installer restricts Windows 10 driver installation into Windows Server 2016. It’s only a matter to include and extra «case» in installer code flow. In fact, drivers install properly from Device Manager, but not additional apps.
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Part of driver Q & A involves testing on the supported operating systems. The install code verifies the OS being used. So while a manual INF install may work. there is no way to get the rest of the software components working on a non supported OS.
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Perhaps I should move question to another forum and reformulate question:
— How do I install manually software components from driver packages in unsupported operating systems (ex: Windows Server 2016)?
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Unfortunately, the answer I provided is not going to change on any of the AMD forums.
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I have installed Crimson before on Server 2016 despite the install code verification many times with no tricks or workarounds needed, not sure what changed with 17.3.3 or MSUpdate. That said- i’m in the same boat but with a slightly different situation.
1x MSI AMD RX 480 GAMING 8GB
1x MSI AMD RX 480 GAMING 8GB
Intel Xeon E5 2690 V3
Asus X99 Deluxe U3.1
Windows Server 2016 Standard 64bit Version 10.0 Build 1439
After attempting to upgrade to Crimson-ReLive-17.3.3 I encountered the exact same issue you are having. All previous versions of Crimson have installed flawlessly for me even while being on an ‘unsupported’ operating system. I’ve run DDU in safemode, toggled crossfire on and off through BIOS, tried one card, permissions are not of issue (running everything under administrator since I’m using Serv2016); none of the tricks used in the past experiences with driver are working.
I can’t say for sure but either the new Crimson setup is more verbose in how it checks for OS dependencies/reqs, or one of the new Microsoft Updates messed with the build # which isn’t allowing AMD installer to run now (ERR 182). Digging around and attempting to install older version of Crimson have resulted in the same error, which makes me think this is more likely a side-effect from an MS update.
I’ve been running Server 2016 for the past few months and have successfully installed many version of Crimson, so I am also stuck as to why it doesn’t work now.
[Lastly, yes force installing the drivers works just fine but obviously we lose a lot of features/functions necessary for gaming without Crimson]
