After installing AMD Catalyst, dragging icons on desktop is not smooth

futurefields

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Reformatted, clean install of Windows 7. Before installing AMD drivers, dragging icons around desktop is smooth like normal. After installing AMD drivers, dragging icons on desktop is choppy looking. Any idea what could be the cause?
 

redzo

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There were already amd drivers installed. Windows 7 probably had an amd driver for your GPU otherwise icon dragging would have not been that smooth. You probably updated that driver and encountered a bug which is performance related. My advice would be to uninstall that driver from add/remove programs, go to amd's website and download the catalyst version previous to your current one that generated this issue. If you've installed an old catalyst version, download and install the latest catalyst.
 

alexruiz

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Reformatted, clean install of Windows 7. Before installing AMD drivers, dragging icons around desktop is smooth like normal. After installing AMD drivers, dragging icons on desktop is choppy looking. Any idea what could be the cause?

What version of the catalyst?
 

SlickR12345

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As the guy above said, you probably had AMD drivers installed through windows update and then installed maybe an older driver or whatever and it caused a problem.

I suggest you uninstall the current driver and reinstall again.
 

futurefields

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windows update is disabled, its a fresh install so no previous AMD drivers, tried reformatting and doing over and the same thing happens
 

mikeymikec

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Try an older AMD driver? Presumably you're using the latest version.

What version did you use before you reinstalled Windows?
 

futurefields

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switched over to an aero theme and it went away

when i switch to a windows classic theme dragging icons is choppy
 

Rvenger

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Got the Intel GPU drivers installed also?

Surprisingly that happens a lot because I went to uninstall the AMD drivers with DDU on my cousin's PC which has the Z87 chipset and a 4770k and Intel came up on DDU instead of AMD.