Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Windows 10 and AMD laptop display drivers

So far Windows 10 is pretty cool.  There are some privacy concerns, but aside from that, it works pretty well.

That is except for the display drivers on my AMD A10 laptop.  But here's how to fix it:

I recommend downloading the most current Catalyst Control Center / drivers from AMD first.

Settings - System - Display - Advanced Display Settings - Display Adapter Properties - Adapter - Properties - Driver - Update Driver

This took a couple minutes to run and install, despite having the latest Catalyst Control Center installed.

Then, back in normal Windows control panel, go to the Device Manager.  My Monitor was called out as being a DISABLED Generic PnP Monitor.  So enable it on the driver page and bingo!  Brightness controls are back!!

Whew, so much for simplified settings controls for Windows 10.  I find that any heavy lifting still has to be done through the older style control panel.