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Guru3D.com » News » AMD Now Really has halted 32-bit Adrenalin driver support

AMD Now Really has halted 32-bit Adrenalin driver support

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/25/2018 02:53 PM | source: 4gamer | 11 comment(s)
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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warlord
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#5600050 Posted on: 10/25/2018 03:06 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.!

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#5600056 Posted on: 10/25/2018 03:21 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.

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#5600063 Posted on: 10/25/2018 03:50 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

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#5600094 Posted on: 10/25/2018 05:01 PM
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 06:23 PM
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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