Hmm gaming laptop… has AMD IGP and dGPU… I install one driver and it just works. No, Intel mixed with AMD or Nvidia nonsense, or AMD mixed with Nvidia.

At work the graphics are all done in blender… and the HIP acceleration is 100% adequate for what we use it for.

Sure there are cases still where you have to use CUDA but they are rapidly fading.

AMD hasn’t dropped vega drivers though… they moved them to a legacy release cycle, which means they’ll get drivers for Windows 10/11 but at a much slower rate without new features. Adrenalin 23.11.1 is the latest Vega driver… Just checked the Ryzen 3 2200U is still on the latest driver…

What they do, do is reduce the rate of updates, EG if something breaks polaris in a driver update it might be a few months before those cards get on a new driver… in the grand scheme of things its a non issue for 99% of users.

That’s because it IS crazy… if you want to use your GPU do it, instead of fiddling with drivers, if you have a problem its probably not going to be fixed by someone mix and matching driver binaries into a mess.

Same with OCing… I don’t do it on machines I want to just work, I keep drivers stock and upgrade them periodically and don’t really have issues.

Also, don’t leave your PC with updates partially installed reboot if it needs to because you end up in update limbo with whatever it was upgrading being broken untill you reboot.