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Raised as a usability problem by 41 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 41 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Drivers have game-specific bugs, forcing repeated driver switchingUnreviewed
20112026- Recurring driver bugs, overheating, and devices failing to pair or work reliably2025-11-16
- Drivers crash or have game-specific bugs, forcing repeated driver switching to play games2016-12-21
- Catalyst Control Panel is poor and drivers crash with lousy bugfixes2011-03-27
Proprietary driver lacks a configuration UI and many featuresUnreviewed
20112026- Proprietary driver lacks a configuration UI and many features2017-10-29
- Users must search out the driver options rather than being shown them during installation2014-11-10
- Driver is a nightmare to configure outside a completely standard setup2014-01-13
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 44 complaints
- Developers find working with AMD's chips terrible to use2026-07-14
- Default fan curve locked fan at 27%, causing GPU overheating and crashes for two years2026-06-11
- Needed a bleeding-edge kernel just to get a new card working2026-01-02
- Spent a whole weekend failing to get the graphics card working2026-01-01
- Recurring driver bugs, overheating, and devices failing to pair or work reliably2025-11-16
- No setting in Windows or AMD driver to get HDR display comfortable or disable it2025-04-15
- GPU model is hidden, so users can't tell which chip they have2025-04-15
- After resume the screen freezes or updates only once every few seconds when moving the mouse2025-02-17
- Can't tell which Radeon GPUs are supported; pages contradict each other and bury information2025-01-20
- Checkbox beside data-sharing text is easy to misread, so users agree to sending data unknowingly2024-03-03
- Support repeatedly sent user to irrelevant articles and useless steps instead of addressing the problem2024-02-18
- Dual-CCD AMD chips perform worse than cheaper parts because no scheduling tooling is provided2024-01-07
- Cryptic errors and hard lockups with no hint of what went wrong2023-08-24
- Frequent hard lockups when running emulators on AMD GPUs under Linux2023-07-02
- Config UI ignored system locale, showing non-English text in an otherwise English system2023-07-02
- Too many similar processor and laptop SKUs make it hard to know what to buy2023-05-07
- Random repeated disconnects make attaching a VR headset reliably difficult2023-03-24
- Control panel is so slow to render that users must wait for text to appear2023-02-10
- Needs obscure environment variables to work and throws obscure compilation errors2023-01-19
- Confusing model numbers make it impossible to judge relative performance2022-09-20
- Model names with suffix letters and digits take a while to decode, and GPU naming is worse2022-03-15
- Ordering from AMD's site is terrible, with billing and shipping address handling broken for many EU countries2021-10-25
- Overlay's global hotkey conflicts with typing keys and is unfortunate2021-09-22
- Can't find documentation on how to use the feature from userspace2021-06-02
- Disabling the cooler's light requires plugging the fan into USB and proprietary Windows software2021-03-15
- Specs table buried under huge marketing sections that must be scrolled past2021-03-10
- GPU fails to detect monitor after power save; display scaling settings reset on every reboot2020-10-12
- Install script breaks the system before revealing the driver is unsupported on this version2019-06-29
- AMD's proprietary Linux drivers are hard to install and buggy2019-01-18
- Proprietary driver lacks a configuration UI and many features2017-10-29
- Drivers crash or have game-specific bugs, forcing repeated driver switching to play games2016-12-21
- Drivers are hard to keep updated and get working smoothly on Linux, unlike Nvidia's simple repo install2016-12-09
- Card stays idle and stutters in CAD software; default fan profile overheats the card2016-07-03
- Installer window too large for VGA; bottom hidden and window can't be moved without hard-to-discover key chord2016-03-31
- Setting up OpenCL on an AMD card on Ubuntu repeatedly fails and is a nightmare2015-11-13
- Users must search out the driver options rather than being shown them during installation2014-11-10
- Drivers only install on one specific kernel and then perform worse than the Intel chip2014-09-03
- Driver silently re-enables Crossfire, so second monitor goes dark with no indication why2014-08-19
- Driver is a nightmare to configure outside a completely standard setup2014-01-13
- Cursor turns into a random colored block when moving between monitors2013-10-02
- Cannot have accelerated OpenGL and multiple monitor support simultaneously with AMD drivers2013-09-05
- Website is very slow and poorly organized, hard to navigate2013-05-29
- Alt-tabbing between windows takes a second or more to respond2011-06-11
- Catalyst Control Panel is poor and drivers crash with lousy bugfixes2011-03-27