AMD Releases Adrenalin Hotfix After Windows 10 Users Report Yellow Bang Error

If you have been holding off on installing AMD‘s latest graphics driver after reports of strange Device Manager errors, there’s finally some good news. AMD has now released a hotfix to tackle the issue that left some Radeon users scrambling for workarounds.

The company has released AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.6.3 Hotfix Preview Driver, just a day after officially acknowledging compatibility problems tied to Adrenalin 26.6.2. The issue primarily affected Windows 10 systems running Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards.

Users noticed a yellow warning icon appearing beside their graphics card in Windows Device Manager after installing Adrenalin 26.6.2. In some cases, AMD Software refused to launch altogether, displaying an error message stating:

“Windows Update may have automatically replaced your AMD Graphics driver. Hence, the version of AMD Software you have launched is not compatible with your currently installed AMD Graphics driver.”

AMD later confirmed it was investigating the issue and temporarily advised affected users to roll back to Adrenalin 26.6.1 while engineers worked on a permanent solution.

For those unaware, Adrenalin 26.6.2 introduced support for FSR 4.1 on RDNA 3-based Radeon RX 7000 graphics cards. The feature was one of AMD’s biggest recent driver additions, bringing AI-powered upscaling improvements previously reserved for newer hardware.

According to AMD’s release notes, the new hotfix specifically addresses the intermittent installation issue affecting Windows 10 systems with Radeon RX 7000 GPUs. Once updated to 26.6.3, eligible Windows 10 64-bit systems running version 21H2 or newer should be able to use FSR 4.1 without encountering the yellow bang error that sparked widespread complaints earlier this week.