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[Jaggies]

Are these manufacturer drivers or the AMD Adrenalin drivers direct from their own website?

It's the built-in driver. Checking for driver updates in Device Manager says I already have the latest but I'll check if there's anything newer on the AMD web site.

[Jaggies]

Thanks. I'd be intrigued to know what it was, if you still have it or can remember. Was it running under Windows 10 or an earlier version?

It was a Nvidia card I'd had for years but I can't remember the model and it's too much faffing around to lay my hands on it ATM. I'd had it from XP days, and it ran fine on that, plus 8, 8.1 and 10 without issue.

[HPsauce]

It was a Nvidia card I'd had for years but I can't remember the model and it's too much faffing around to lay my hands on it ATM. I'd had it from XP days, and it ran fine on that, plus 8, 8.1 and 10 without issue.

Interesting, thanks for that. If you do happen to come across it and remember, please do post the model here.
I'm always interested in what will and won't work with W11 and why.

[Jaggies]

Interesting, thanks for that. If you do happen to come across it and remember, please do post the model here.
I'm always interested in what will and won't work with W11 and why.

Sure, no worries.

[Alex Atkin UK]

There's some listed here: https://www.quora.com/What-graphics-card-is-not-supported-by-Windows-11

Looks like most NVIDIA cards before the 10x0 series.  Actually scratch that, their name change means I think the 500 series upwards may work.

I'd always pick newest possible though for newer video decoders (not that they really apply to me due to being on Linux, I think it still uses software decoding).

[HPsauce]

Well that Quora link says my video card (GeForce 8600GT) doesn't work with W11, but it's fine!
Nvidia driver, dated 41/11/2016 version 21.21.13.4201 digitally signed by Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher.

[Alex Atkin UK]

Well that kills that theory then.

[HPsauce]

My other easily checked W11 desktop PC (Compaq Presario built for W7) has an onboard Intel G41 Express chipset with Intel WDDM1.1 drivers from 2013!

[Alex Atkin UK]

I guess the WDDM 2.0 requirement was like the CPU requirement, something they might restrict later on but an artificial restriction for now that you can bypass.

But its also why I don't think its wise to install 11 on hardware not officially supported, as they left themselves an out to break compatibility with updates.

[HPsauce]

True, but my thinking is that I can probably just revert to W10 if they do get really difficult.

[mofa2020]

The video I watch is mainly 720P or 1080P streaming from various sources.

I had the same issue with web videos on Windows 10 like YouTube Twitter where videos stutter and drop frames when hovering mouse pointer over "not-full screen" videos and this completely solved by disabling hardware acceleration in Chrome settings (if you are using it).

[Jaggies]

I've just disabled hardware acceleration - something I should have thought of, however I have resolved the problem (I think!)...

Although AMD don't have updated drivers that I could find on their web site, elsewhere I found an app called Driver Easy, and now have 12 updated drivers, including the graphics driver.

Video is now much smoother, so happy not to have to fork out for a new graphics card.