Legion Go - Install Updated AFMF2 780M GPU Drivers & Software Guide

[@LCast31]

Installed the afmf 2 drivers . That thing caused too many stutters on games i usually play , fake fps counter, and laggy resources. Uninstalled it right away and got back to the May 2024 display driver, and now I'm super happy i got no stutters.

[@antoineavn1721]

Same problem and solution

[@ChaseWindu]

@@LCast31 how did you uninstall the bullshit afmf 2 drivers?

[@LCast31]

@ChaseWindu with DDU, same procedure above. That uninstalls display driver. Then you install the May 2024 graphics driver from lenovo

[@DavidRodriguez-kc8kd]

Can you help me up reverting to the other May update

[@DavidRodriguez-kc8kd]

Ib my case the Legion Space does not work at all

[@blastmann69]

thanks, I really needed this. I also appreciate how clear and concise this tutorial is.

[@Downgrade13]

Instead of pausing Windows updates, there is an advanced option to stop Windows from updating manufactuerer drivers, especially the graphics drivers. This will prevent Windows from overriding your sideloaded AMD drivers everytime there's a Windows update.

[@GameTechPlanet]

I dunno why but I have had advanced option fail on me as well but it has been awhile since I tried. The real solution is for Lenovo to catch up 🤣

[@Downgrade13]

​@@GameTechPlanet There is no question, they need to catch up. If there is one thing i liked about the chinese handhelds like Aokzoe and OneXplayer, having the 7840u, you just easily updated the driver from the AMD Adrenalin console. And it was frequent!!, not twice a year.

[@GameTechPlanet]

@@Downgrade13 💯. Asus and Lenovo havi g to do their own driver edits isnt great. Asus has its issues to but they have dine much better with gpu driver updates. You can aide load other drivers but dont need to as where the Go is almost a need at this point depending what your playing of course.

[@julianwalls9529]

Wow that was easy as hell to side load thank you!

[@GameTechPlanet]

👍 yea its not bad and once u do it a couple times it becomes pretty quick and easy.

[@ElPlatanoMojado]

youve earned a subscriber. great videos!!!

[@giakotia]

Worked for me Thanks 🙏

[@jazmine1391]

WOW YOU ARE THE BEST ❤ THANK YOU SO MUCH. ALWAYS WANTED TO PLAY FF16. YOUR GUIDE IS SO EASY TO FOLLOW.

[@GameTechPlanet]

Glad it helped. Keep an eye out your windoes updates stay paused. Windows updates resumed on me last night and over wrote my drivers lol. Had to do this again 🤣

[@damanpreetsingh7149]

A big thanks you man ... To keep simple and every detail become of u me kind of survive 😅 🎉

[@keithbates695]

Very informative video 💯

[@Li0np3ach]

Does frame generation now work with legion go screen ? Before only work when put on external monitor

[@GameTechPlanet]

Not with offiydrivers but yes with the sideloaded drivers the Go can use afmf2 and has been able to for awhile aince the older afmf2 preview driver. I show it working in both the guides 👍

[@D1EGO305]

Hey sorry if this is dumb but what happens when new 780m drivers are released? Does adrenaline properly detect and you can update from the app or would you have to manually instal those drivers?

[@erby69]

It's more than likely gonna be the same process, considering Legion Go has a Z1 Extreme processor, which is just a modified 7840U processor. That said, I wouldn't stress about it, especially since we have a video to replicate the process.

[@D1EGO305]

@@erby69 🙏

[@GameTechPlanet]

@@erby69 correct. You will have to redo this process for any updates or to revert back to oem drivers.

[@rickc4459]

mine glitched so much it was fustrating. i reinstalled and reset the device. took about 2.5 hours but everything is working now. i will never update another and driver again unless the forums say it is okay

[@dreacul]

Thank you so much for your tutorial!! I have a question, somehow my amd drive didn't complete de download and I went to safe mode, uninstalled the drivers but when I went to install the amd drive I found out it appeared as a file that is not an executable or it didn't finish downloading. Is it ok to restart the console or this will force me to redo everything?

[@Goro_MajimaSan]

Just woww thanks bro

[@FruitLoop2020]

In your opinion what’s better… side loading or keeping all stock?

[@GameTechPlanet]

@@FruitLoop2020 i always prefer official drivers on all devices and thats how I have tested everything on the channel. However I had no choice this time with the Go. I wanted to cover FF16 and that game absolutely will not run on the old official drivers. When lenovo comes out with a newer official driver that works I will likely revert back for testing

[@sinanko-no1lb]

How do you stop side loaded drivers getting updated automatically ? I disabled windows update feature using the command prompt, adding regedit entries and basically all possible ways were tried. Just turned on my Lego and once more, side loaded drivers updated automatically to 2023 version which ended up braking legion space and amd drivers

[@GabrielSampaiorj]

Im having the same problem. Idk how to solve this. In the end i did the factory reset and returned to stock version. Have you found something to solve this?

[@barmyneddy1789]

Thanks for posting. I'd considered this device but won't bother now

[@m3anmug]

Should I be using the GPU Scaling option in adrenaline? I usually have it on but sometimes it drives me crazy with scaling the screen.

[@ericpagan7623]

Just recently, i've been having the same issue with war zone 2. Would that update fix my problem as well? Just asking

[@GameTechPlanet]

Its possible. Your not the first person I have heard that from. And I had issues with the lenovo driver when I played black ops 6 beta

[@Eevolved32]

Does ROG ally have an official AFMF2 update, or do you still have to sideload?

[@GameTechPlanet]

Currently the official Ally driver is only afmf not the newer afmf2. I have a hunch we will get an Ally update soon tho. Lenovo is soooo far behind on official gpu driver I had to do this just tonplay some of the newer games let alone afmf2

[@Leopez02]

Lenovo Legion Go 2 let's GO! 😮

[@ben7301]

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[@GameTechPlanet]

@@Leopez02 we gotta be close to some announcements with all these leaks and stuff

[@Leopez02]

@@GameTechPlanet okay

[@YosefElgart]

How revert back?​@@GameTechPlanet

[@damians1145]

Great Guide but I can only use the scroll wheel click as a hotkey! any ideas? thanks

[@gatway100]

I tested a couple months the new one 2.1 somebody send me a link to it but I forgot to turn off the window update and it deleted it

[@mart719]

I use the preview drivers on my Lego and cannot match the performance I see in some reviews. I did on my Ally turn off fluid motion frames and performance was better. Should I be disabling some setting in the game’s graphics settings to be able to use afmf?

[@MrJojofoto]

If I buy the Legion Go, would it still hold up in 2 years?

[@modestopulido6389]

Yes

[@MrJojofoto]

@@modestopulido6389 Maybe I buy it :)

[@GameTechPlanet]

@@MrJojofoto totally depends what you mean by “ hold up “. All devices have batteries which will degrade over a few yeare and keed replacement. Also what games you play. Easier to run games wont be a problem on the device in 2 years however newer harder to run games most likely will not. Theres alot more to it than that but its a complicated question. Depends what you use it for. Typically i figure on 2-3 years max for any pc I have but I like to stay in newer hardware

[@josephpekkar4783]

​@GameTechPlanet Thanks for replying. You answered well, and my point was towards games becoming heavier over time to run 2/3 years makes perfect sense. Much appreciated!!

[@Gunzavage]

The Legion go drivers are so far behind I gave up on the adrenaline software and just bought an egpu. Well worth it, I got the sgwzone rtx 4060

[@GameTechPlanet]

Niceee. Egpu is cool I just dont ise thwm since i have desktop pc’s for that. My handhelds are for handheld gaming lol. If I have to plug in any wires or sit in one place its not handheld anymore 😂😂

[@redcrimson1028]

Nice. I just play my legion as is. I do not like updating. If my legion has issues, then I update

[@redcrimson1028]

​@@GameTechPlanetI agree 100% it's the very same reason why the switch is my favorite system. I just play games. If I want to hassle with technicalities, I use my pc. I like the way how u think.

[@Leo57081]

Does this work for the ROG Ally Z1

[@GameTechPlanet]

Yea.

[@panobranco]

I've installed the new 24.9.1 then AFMF 2 Driver V3 24.20.11.01, in both cases, when I started Forza Horizon 4, The Witcher 3 and Days Gone, the app showed AFMF was Innactive with the yellow icon in it. Any ideas on how to fix it? Thanks for the video!!

[@IcyPhil]

whenever im in the advanced start menu and try to open the keyboard nothing happens. I just cannot open it to press 4. Any advice?

[@GameTechPlanet]

Ive done this a few times now and never had the keyboard fail to popup when i tap the screen. Id say plug in a keyboard if u can to get past that part. Keep in mind tho I have not rly needed safe mode yet for this to work. Tho its always better when u can

[@KaayyC]

Latest 780M drivers for me have so much stutter and causes my Legion space to crash so that sucks

[@GameTechPlanet]

Im sorry that sucks. How about the preview driver we were using before? Maybe go back to that or for now back to the oem driver.

[@chadley2014]

I tried setting my hotkey to turn it on and off to middle mouse click but it doeent work. Any ideas?

[@kvin1953]

Why is this "new" ? Hasn't that driver been out for a month now? Or is this a different version? Mine is not preview but stable and has the same update number at the end (11.01). Is there a new preview driver that just uses the same numbers or are we talking about the same driver?

[@andresalfaromadrigal2787]

Me funciono muchas gracias

[@robertdaone]

Instead of side loading an update I'm going to wait till they officially push the update through Legion Space.

[@GameTechPlanet]

@@robertdaone i always prefer official drivers. I was left with no choice lol. As soon as they release new drivers I will revert back and test

[@Straight2thepointtech]

Mines didn’t fail and I did everything you said lol idk but it seems to be installing fine

[@GameTechPlanet]

@@Straight2thepointtech interesting. Hopefully its working properly for ya

[@Straight2thepointtech]

@@GameTechPlanet it’s back to reverting me to 740m hmmmm lol

[@GameTechPlanet]

@@Straight2thepointtech things like this are why I am not a fan of side loading stuff. Its anlast resort for me and unfortunately needed on the Go right now. I wish Lenovo would catch up rhe drivers more often

[@Straight2thepointtech]

@@GameTechPlanet I know I fixed it though, I’ll try again, but idk what’s up with Lenovo they must be purely focused on the lego2 now lol

[@TechManG]

How do you enable Legion Space overlay with the AMD Driver?

[@GameTechPlanet]

Same as always. You can use your quickly access button on the Go and turn on the overlay in the quick access menu

[@ElTortle99]

When I load into safe mode I can’t seem to open any apps or file explorer. I downloaded the driver through a different method. But found AFMF2 gave me a ton of ghosting in my games

[@GameTechPlanet]

I dont have bad ghosting so far. And I haven’t needed safe mode. Just added that into the vid for those that may need or want it and dont know how to boot into it.

[@ElTortle99]

@@GameTechPlanet that’s odd that I’m getting ghosting with AFMF2 on. I did several runs with it on and off with various settings and whenever it was off I didn’t get ghosting 🤷🏻‍♂️. I just went with lossless scaling which hasn’t given me any problems and made games like Space Marine 2 way more playable along side having the new driver installed which boosted performance in itself

[@jameswy123]

@@ElTortle99

[@goodvibezz766]

Why does mine keep reverting back to the old version after a while

[@GameTechPlanet]

@@goodvibezz766 make sure windows update isnt kicking back on. And that your not updating in Space

[@RyanGraham-s1p]

I have steam deck oled with windows 11 on it,do I need to update my driver?

[@GameTechPlanet]

@@RyanGraham-s1p not like this no. Use Valves official driver. Its a custom chipset in the Deck and a 780m driver wont work. Im not sure if theres a good driver for sideload on deck with windows I havent tri d

[@RyanGraham-s1p]

Thanks mate, I’m new to all this appreciate it

[@murilomarques3532]

well for me here, i could find same folder inf file since my folders are bit differents from yours...inside packages i have different folders and subfolders couldnt proceed

[@GameTechPlanet]

@@murilomarques3532 very odd. Did you do any side loading before? I know sometimes i have to manually delte that AMd folder before reinstalling the new side loaded driver

[@HEROxOOT]

When I enable AFMF2 it just says incompatible with display.

[@GameTechPlanet]

Make sure your game is in fullscreen or exclusive fullscreen and be sure the AMD Adrenaline Overlay is Off or AFMF wont work

[@reagan232]

I have done this. After a few days when opening AMD settings it requires you to “download and install” an update. When doing so it downloads but doesn’t install. So then I have to do this entire process over again. So far I’ve had to do it twice since October 9th. What’s the issue.

[@Growfe]

I am here for this exact reason, thanks

[@Growfe]

Apparently it may be because of automatic updates, though I thought I turned mine off during the setup

[@reagan232]

@@Growfeprobably so. I went turn off auto updates and ended up doing it again. I just reverted back to the one on the levono website. I’ve been sending emails and making comments on Levono Facebook post in hopes they will go and update it some so we can all get this update without issues.

[@ChaseWindu]

Followed your steps to a T and now when l press the button to bring up my quick settings on my legion go, my options for 1200 and 800p are GONE.

[@GameTechPlanet]

Never scene that happen. Just ddu again and revert back to official drivers. Odd one. Remember this is all unofficial stuff. No guarantees but its work for me every time so far and also on 3 other legion go’s no problem

[@redcrimson1028]

Damn! What replaced them lol?

[@ChaseWindu]

@@redcrimson1028 literally only have the 1600p option lol the other two places where 800 and 1200 would be are just blank.

[@redcrimson1028]

@@ChaseWindu wow lol

[@DoKim-x4e]

I have the same problem. I can't choose another resolution

[@YouDecide444]

After the ddu extract bro after restart legion go there is no option for internet connection what should I do?

[@GameTechPlanet]

Thats odd never seen that one happen. I would download and install the network drivers from Lenovo to see if that fixes it

[@DonaldHendleyBklynvexRecords]

Silly question, how did they figure it was 780m and not the 880m drivers? is the Z1 extreme the same as the 780m? and what happens if 1 picks a higher or lower tier driver?

[@dramaticmudderer5208]

It's the same GPU, since the z1 extreme is just a modified 7840u

[@trdfred7992]

I can’t play warzone because it’s telling me to update gpu driver on legion go and this video came up and looks so complicated I’m a new user to pc in general .

[@GameTechPlanet]

@@trdfred7992 unfortunately your options are this method or waiting for Lenovo to eventually update the gpu driver

[@jerryw1608]

If it has a amd chipset, cpu and iGPU… why the *** does Lenovo want to have control over the drivers that are getting installed for these chips?

[@stoffersjason]

where did you get that background

[@slickrickbaby69]

Im Reading everyone comment and i had some of the same issue with my Legion legion space doesn't open, some. Game crash, fps , i dont know if im the only one who that happened to but my amd software just went back on its own on software 23.20.24.03 after following all your step in the video i had the newer software with all the new features but out of nowhere went back to the other firmware..

[@shinraco]

How did you Hot Key FMF2? 8:45

[@GameTechPlanet]

In legion space. You can setup all the extra buttons and hotkeys in there

[@jeffreymarquez1880]

@@GameTechPlanetcan you more into detail I’ve been trying but can’t seem to activate it i have everything else downloaded

[@openboxtherapy1010]

@@GameTechPlanet Hi, I'm having toruble mapping the button to turn it on or off. Can you please clarify? Thank you

[@martindescoteaux9288]

Same here ​@@GameTechPlanet

[@raze_timstar]

I've followed every step, but when im in the device manager, there is already something and not the microsoft base adapter

[@salomonselvalacayo5111]

Don't worry just go

[@jackparker5426]

I installed it but for some reason i didn't get the same results as you

[@sinanko-no1lb]

My lego overlay shows fps only when I activate afmf2. Any idea how to fix it ?

[@iRaven-_-]

what settings did you use

[@GameTechPlanet]

For what? If your curious about the games I have dedicated performance videos up for Ragnarok and FF16 for all the devices I have here.

[@iRaven-_-]

@@GameTechPlanet AMD settings

[@adravil_sunderland]

Please be aware that your Legion Space app may stop working because of this. Ping me if you need a short guide on how to revert your changes back.

[@OgHazeKiller562]

My legion space isn’t opening or working i uninstalled and installed and nothing what do I do ?

[@GameTechPlanet]

I have never had this happen and my Space and quick access still working fine after 3 times in a row doing ddu and drivers back and forth to test. If you camt get it working you may have to factory reset the device and start over

[@JustxLiving909]

Last resort reset windows

[@OgHazeKiller562]

Okay now I’m having a problem the driver updates amd to old driver from 2023 any idea how to stop this

[@Catboy-hr2qp]

Im missing the packages folder in the amd sub folder

[@Kbfrmdaa]

Safe mode don’t work for me. Just sends me into bitlocker

[@GameTechPlanet]

@@Kbfrmdaa i hear different things abput safe mode here on the go. Rly not sure as for this driver change its simple enough I have not needed to use safe mode and I have done this back and forth about 5 times now this week. None of my friends with the Go used safe mode either and all was good.

[@Kbfrmdaa]

@@GameTechPlanet sounds good bro! Can you make a video sometime how to revert back into OG amd settings for ROG/Legion

[@FWayfinder]

is doing this safe? im just scared i might ruin the device. I just got the legion go 2 days ago and im still learning the “pc abbreviations) thank you

[@GameTechPlanet]

Trying different GPU drivers will not break a pc or this device. It will greatly affect performance tho. Worst case you can always DDU again and use Legiom Space to install the official Lenovo gpu driver again. And worst worst case we just factory reset and start over. Thos guide is something noone should have to do. Lenovo needs to be better at up to date gpu drivers. Im working on a mew guide now as they updated the stable driver and we are switching

[@L0rd0fTheWeap0nz]

I dont recommend u this everything stopped working for me all games and legionspace and had to factory reset.

[@groslait7814]

I dont know what happened to u guys for me gta online is finally can run at full 1600p with high settings. I just cap 30 fps. And it runs at 60 fps 🎉

[@paddyj900]

Mapping of key, would help!

[@GameTechPlanet]

Easy to do. Legion space has all your very easy mapping options for you buttons.

[@paddyj900]

@@GameTechPlanet I mapped the buttons to the hotkeys inside AMD Adrenaline, but it won't work...

[@MistaSue]

its all a gross mess for 700 dollars. you need to do all of this to update, then if you dont get freezing problems from it, eventually it will update on its own reverting back to old update without getting rid of new one witch leads so legion space being broken! wich then leads to you needing to factory reset everything! lenovo couldnt have made this more stressful if they tried.

[@KaayyC]

You don't need to do a factory reset you just go into device manager and select the gpu and update the driver with driver already on the pc and select the most recent one and you're done Lenovo said previously the driver from them is old because they have bugs that need fixing with help from AMD who haven't helped them as fast and they need 🤷 my guess is they're having the same overlay issue and crashing issues with legion space

[@certifiedskillissues]

Dog how big are your hands?

[@TheEvilPinkOne]

Gg

[@GameTechPlanet]

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