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AMD Now Really has halted 32-bit Adrenalin driver support
We've mentioned a couple of times already that AMD was to drop Radeon 32-bit driver support. NVIDIA has done so earlier this year already. From the looks of things, it's now confirmed.
Over at the AMD driver pages for the past month, you will have noticed a lacking 32-bit driver support page. Personally, I've asked AMD a couple of time what the status on 32-bit driver support is, but these questions never got answered. Website 4Gamer apparently did get a statement on 32-bit Radeon display driver support from AMD and confirmed that there are no plans to continue 32-bit support. Starting from October 2018, AMD will no longer offer 32-bit drivers for Radeon graphics cards.
That means Software Adrenalin 18.9.3 WHQL will be the last revision available in 32-bit. which was re-released on October 5th with WHQL certificate (originally released on September 26th as BETA). You can still download this driver from us here, as we have archived them all onto our download servers.
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#5600056 Posted on: 10/25/2018 04:21 PM
I doubt there are many specific x86 moments in driver source code. So I guess this is just a decrease for test and release teams - less to test and to prepare for release.
I doubt there are many specific x86 moments in driver source code. So I guess this is just a decrease for test and release teams - less to test and to prepare for release.
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#5600063 Posted on: 10/25/2018 04:50 PM
It was about time, I can rarely see non-64bit capable hardware still going nowadays. Now the only thing remains before proper experience is to drop Windows 7 support.
Windows 8.1 are vastly superior to Windows 7 in every aspect for older machines/devices if Windows 10 is a no go due to missing drivers and incompatible hardware.
In my old laptop Windows 7 was a stuttery mess, Windows 10 couldn't find my mobile gpu, finally Windows 8.1 provide a butter smooth video playback experience.!
Windows 8.1 is a great version of windows, i use it with Start 8 (to avoid metro interface) and Blackbird, still my favorite OS
It was about time, I can rarely see non-64bit capable hardware still going nowadays. Now the only thing remains before proper experience is to drop Windows 7 support.
Windows 8.1 are vastly superior to Windows 7 in every aspect for older machines/devices if Windows 10 is a no go due to missing drivers and incompatible hardware.
In my old laptop Windows 7 was a stuttery mess, Windows 10 couldn't find my mobile gpu, finally Windows 8.1 provide a butter smooth video playback experience.!
Windows 8.1 is a great version of windows, i use it with Start 8 (to avoid metro interface) and Blackbird, still my favorite OS
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#5600094 Posted on: 10/25/2018 06:01 PM
This is a good thing, the people still on using 32, aren't people who need the drivers anyways.
This is a good thing, the people still on using 32, aren't people who need the drivers anyways.
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#5600125 Posted on: 10/25/2018 07:23 PM
Totally agree.
This is a good thing, the people still on using 32, aren't people who need the drivers anyways.
Totally agree.
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#5600133 Posted on: 10/25/2018 07:48 PM
I liked Windows Vista because it looked nice with transparency, nice buttons and colourful theme and that one is not supported as well
Windows 10 is square shaped not themed as fluently and most of the time looks like toy-story but i like new black file explorer
I liked Windows Vista because it looked nice with transparency, nice buttons and colourful theme and that one is not supported as well
Windows 10 is square shaped not themed as fluently and most of the time looks like toy-story but i like new black file explorer
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#5600139 Posted on: 10/25/2018 07:58 PM
I liked Windows Vista because it looked nice with transparency, nice buttons and colourful theme and that one is not supported as well
Windows 10 is square shaped not themed as fluently and most of the time looks like toy-story but i like new black file explorer
I'm not sure towards who your comment is directed to, or if it's sarcasm or not
I liked Windows Vista because it looked nice with transparency, nice buttons and colourful theme and that one is not supported as well
Windows 10 is square shaped not themed as fluently and most of the time looks like toy-story but i like new black file explorer
I'm not sure towards who your comment is directed to, or if it's sarcasm or not
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#5600165 Posted on: 10/25/2018 09:22 PM
I agree that performance drivers or new features aren't required for 32-bit, but no security updates for possible exploits is a negative. Then again, Nvidia's Legacy support for 32-bit is also going to end in a few months.
I agree that performance drivers or new features aren't required for 32-bit, but no security updates for possible exploits is a negative. Then again, Nvidia's Legacy support for 32-bit is also going to end in a few months.
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#5600176 Posted on: 10/25/2018 09:58 PM
Maybe he thinks AMD makes Windows?
I'm not sure towards who your comment is directed to, or if it's sarcasm or not
Maybe he thinks AMD makes Windows?
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#5600263 Posted on: 10/26/2018 07:04 AM
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#5600747 Posted on: 10/27/2018 05:45 PM
Windows 8.1 are vastly superior to Windows 7 in every aspect for older machines/devices if Windows 10 is a no go due to missing drivers and incompatible hardware.
In my old laptop Windows 7 was a stuttery mess, Windows 10 couldn't find my mobile gpu, finally Windows 8.1 provide a butter smooth video playback experience.!
Conventional wisdom often does not hold with laptops, unfortunately. Laptops are custom devices using custom-made components that as often as not require custom drivers--and those drivers have to come from your laptop OEM (HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc.), as they as a rule are not available from standard component manufacturer websites. What I've seen entirely too much of is laptop manufacturers indicating you'd need to buy another laptop from them if you want Win10 support, etc.... If you had trouble with Windows 10 because of your laptop drivers, it's up to the maker of your laptop to supply them--has nothing to do with Windows 10 itself. That's a big reason I cannot recommend laptops to people who enjoy computer gaming--for gaming, a desktop is the vastly preferred system to use, imo. It's even better if you build your own desktop yourself and cherry pick the components you use, imo. (Spend a little more and only buy from tier 1 hardware OEMs--AMD, nVidia, MSI, etc. Not only will these companies keep you in good drivers for *years* after your retail purchases, through several new OS versions, their retail component warranties are much better, too.) Windows 10 is > three years old, and for my desktop at home I haven't had a problem with drivers, or any other major problems, for > ~two years. Currently I'm on v 1809, build 17763.104--very nice and problem free. (I haven't seen the recently reported erasure errors --from what I could tell reading posts from people so affected--it seemed to be an issue for people using a non-updated version of Onedrive who saw those problems, apparently.)
Windows 8.1 are vastly superior to Windows 7 in every aspect for older machines/devices if Windows 10 is a no go due to missing drivers and incompatible hardware.
In my old laptop Windows 7 was a stuttery mess, Windows 10 couldn't find my mobile gpu, finally Windows 8.1 provide a butter smooth video playback experience.!
Conventional wisdom often does not hold with laptops, unfortunately. Laptops are custom devices using custom-made components that as often as not require custom drivers--and those drivers have to come from your laptop OEM (HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc.), as they as a rule are not available from standard component manufacturer websites. What I've seen entirely too much of is laptop manufacturers indicating you'd need to buy another laptop from them if you want Win10 support, etc.... If you had trouble with Windows 10 because of your laptop drivers, it's up to the maker of your laptop to supply them--has nothing to do with Windows 10 itself. That's a big reason I cannot recommend laptops to people who enjoy computer gaming--for gaming, a desktop is the vastly preferred system to use, imo. It's even better if you build your own desktop yourself and cherry pick the components you use, imo. (Spend a little more and only buy from tier 1 hardware OEMs--AMD, nVidia, MSI, etc. Not only will these companies keep you in good drivers for *years* after your retail purchases, through several new OS versions, their retail component warranties are much better, too.) Windows 10 is > three years old, and for my desktop at home I haven't had a problem with drivers, or any other major problems, for > ~two years. Currently I'm on v 1809, build 17763.104--very nice and problem free. (I haven't seen the recently reported erasure errors --from what I could tell reading posts from people so affected--it seemed to be an issue for people using a non-updated version of Onedrive who saw those problems, apparently.)
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It was about time, I can rarely see non-64bit capable hardware still going nowadays. Now the only thing remains before proper experience is to drop Windows 7 support.
Windows 8.1 are vastly superior to Windows 7 in every aspect for older machines/devices if Windows 10 is a no go due to missing drivers and incompatible hardware.
In my old laptop Windows 7 was a stuttery mess, Windows 10 couldn't find my mobile gpu, finally Windows 8.1 provide a butter smooth video playback experience.!