I have been using AMD hardware encoding (AV1) for a while (a year or two) with MCEBuddy. No issues, it just works. It recently broke, it will work for a while, like 1 or 2 videos and then it defaults back to software encoding. That is REALLY slow. A video that would take 10 minutes with hardware…

Just a quick update. Regardless of what drive I installed, nothing was stable. It would work, for a little while and then stop working. I ended up rolling back to 24.7.1 and it has been working for over a month, no issues.

So the driver I am having issues with is 25.9.1, which I installed on Oct. 4th. I don’t have the option to rollback, BUT I did find in my download folder driver version 24.7.1 which I suspect is what I was probably running for just over 1 year and it was stable. For now, I have installed 24.12.1 a…

If it’s stable feel free to share a link and we can add it to the list of recommended drivers

AMD or Windows Update killed my hardware encoding

General Support / Questions Hardware Encoding

Goose (Goose) October 18, 2025, 3:03am 2

Driver 99% of the time. Try rolling back the driver from device manager which should be the easiest option or check out this topic for links to recommended drivers

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AMD or Windows Update killed my hardware encoding

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