Jaypyro

I downgraded the Shield OS over the weekend. Made a real mess of it to start & took way longer than it should have but that was more down to my bad luck & ineptitude than anything else . Started trying to do it with my Mac by using instructions from different sources but only succeeded in breaking the Shield and getting stuck on a boot-loop. So I installed Parallels on my mac and tried to install the window's drivers from Invidia website (looked really straight forward from a video tutorial). Windows didn't recognising the .int driver file so I figured it might be because the trial version of Parallels I was using didn't have a full Windows set up. So... I purchased a windows 11 key (a cheap one ). This didn't solve the problem either. I was about to give up when I remembered my Dad had an old laptop he hadn't used in a long time because it had become too slow so I went to his house and dusted it down. The thing was full of bloatware and crap so i spent an age cleaning it all up just so that it was usable. Downloaded the drivers & hey presto! it recognised them (Windows 10 so I'm guessing my earlier issue was because of Windows 11). Once this was done it was all plain sailing and now my Shield works fine. I nearly threw it out of the window a couple of times along the way though

This is great news. I recently purchased a Shield specifically for Hyperspin & as soon as I did the set up it upgraded to Android 11 I was looking at doing the whole downgrade thing but if there's a fix coming, I'll hold on. Thanks in advance for all the work & time spent on this, I know there are a lot of grateful retro gamers out there