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AMD Ryzen CPUs to support Windows 7 with drivers
The lads at Computerbase noticed that AMD is hard at work with Ryzen drivers, Windows 7 is also getting fully supported opposed to what Intel is doing (Kaby lake only has full support starting at Windows 8.1).
AMD will make Ryzen fully compatible with Windows 7, which is still supported by Microsoft for another three years. The info was shared by AMD at an partner event. Basically this opens up all processor instruction sets for Window 7, as long as they are compatible with the OS of course similar to what Kaby Lake had with HEVC / 10-bit encoding driver support. Microsoft is not supporting Intel’s latest Kaby Lake range of CPUs on any OS below Windows 10, kind of weird right? We're not sure how that will detail itself in realtion to Ryzen as Microsoft clearly stated not to support new processors on older operating systems.
So there you have it, if you do not have the stomach upgrading to Windows 10. AMD have reportedly announced they will be providing drivers for Windows 7, the favourite OS of many.
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#5387840 Posted on: 02/02/2017 04:22 PM
Windows 7 is the pinnacle of Windows evolution.
Windows 7 is the pinnacle of Windows evolution.
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#5387845 Posted on: 02/02/2017 04:30 PM
What does HEVC / 10-bit have to do with the CPU? Clearly software decoders work everywhere, and hardware decoding is in GPUs, not CPUs.
For everything else, previous AMD CPU generations needed fixes from Microsoft to even work properly due to their shared half-core design, if any such fixes would be required again and Microsoft refuses to perform such fixes on old OSes, there is nothing AMD can do to fix that.
They weren't "fixes" really, just a proper CPU scheduler for AMD's design. That was Microsoft's job to implement. I feel that decoding of that has to do with DRM and paths like that for APUs really, not CPUs.
Windows 7 is the pinnacle of Windows evolution.
And here I thought it was Windows 2000.
What does HEVC / 10-bit have to do with the CPU? Clearly software decoders work everywhere, and hardware decoding is in GPUs, not CPUs.
For everything else, previous AMD CPU generations needed fixes from Microsoft to even work properly due to their shared half-core design, if any such fixes would be required again and Microsoft refuses to perform such fixes on old OSes, there is nothing AMD can do to fix that.
They weren't "fixes" really, just a proper CPU scheduler for AMD's design. That was Microsoft's job to implement. I feel that decoding of that has to do with DRM and paths like that for APUs really, not CPUs.
Windows 7 is the pinnacle of Windows evolution.
And here I thought it was Windows 2000.
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#5387846 Posted on: 02/02/2017 04:33 PM
Well... ok, but... WHY?
Regardless of anything - Ryzen buyers WILL be building new PCs. It won't be "just" an upgrade not requiring fresh Windows installation.
And installing Windows 7 on a new PC... well, it is strange. I don't get it.
Well... ok, but... WHY?
Regardless of anything - Ryzen buyers WILL be building new PCs. It won't be "just" an upgrade not requiring fresh Windows installation.
And installing Windows 7 on a new PC... well, it is strange. I don't get it.
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#5387848 Posted on: 02/02/2017 04:39 PM
I'm curious how will this work. I have never heard about a driver for a CPU.
This also is not the same thing as Windows getting support for those CPUs, right?
I'm pretty confused.
I'm curious how will this work. I have never heard about a driver for a CPU.
This also is not the same thing as Windows getting support for those CPUs, right?
I'm pretty confused.
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What does HEVC / 10-bit have to do with the CPU? Clearly software decoders work everywhere, and hardware decoding is in GPUs, not CPUs.
For everything else, previous AMD CPU generations needed fixes from Microsoft to even work properly due to their shared half-core design, if any such fixes would be required again and Microsoft refuses to perform such fixes on old OSes, there is nothing AMD can do to fix that.