AMD Halts Support for Windows 8.1 with Consumer Radeon drivers
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heffeque
Redemption80
RzrTrek
A much as I despise Windows, I think this is a very bad and lazy move by AMD.
schmidtbag
Oh boo-hoo. Unless someone can prove that the Windows 7 or 10 drivers don't work, why does anybody care? I've used drivers for different versions of Windows all the time and I never had problems.
Just because AMD doesn't support 8.1 anymore, that doesn't mean the GPU will stop working. If it in fact has problems, then you have a valid reason to complain. But even then - who still uses 8.1? If you want DX12 and an OS with more support, go for 10. If you don't like 10, I don't know why you like 8.1 either because it isn't a whole lot different.
CrazY_Milojko
Win8.1 is great OS, I don't care what others are talking about it. It's been my main OS in past almost 3 years combined with Classic Shell, fast, stable, bloatware free, great for gaming (when my kids are saying that I believe em).
Although I like what AMD is doing with Ryzen and Threadripper I don't like their:
1). non-existent Win8.1 driver support for RX 5xx cards
2). non-existent Win8.1 driver support for AMD chipsets for Ryzen
3) and now this: no more driver support for AMD Radeon GPU's running Win8.1
More and more I'm thinking about NVidia when it comes to buying new graphics cards for gaming rigs of my kids still (happily) running Win8.1 Pro x64. I'm not happy about it but there is no choice for them atm and I don't want to move to Win10 atm just because of non-existent AMD GPU driver support for Win8.1. NVidia, here I come 🙁
Prince Valiant
Exascale
Yxskaft
I really think that the 8.1 users should have used the free Win10 offer, but I still don't like these moves by AMD.
Compared to Nvidia, AMD drops support for both older hardware and software earlier, and that makes me wary to buy AMD.
Nvidia still supported Vista into 2016 whereas AMD stopped in 2013. 400/500 series is also still in the mainline drivers.
schmidtbag
Denial
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/07/faster-booting-smaller-footprint-make-windows-10-an-easy-upgrade-for-old-pcs/
If people want to take shots at Microsoft for privacy issues, I'm all for it - but the rest of the complaints I constantly read about 10 are completely unfounded and usually just straight up wrong.
Saying it's "still on the Vista Kernel" is like saying a modern car is "still on the Model T engine" because they both have cylinders. It's dumb on multiple levels, same as saying that 10 is just a reskin of 8.1 or that it's a bloated OS.
It's the fastest OS in 3 generations, it uses the lowest out of the box ram in 3 generations, and has the smallest footprint in 3 generations:
ocsystem
Bad move from AMD. I actually downgrade from win10 to 8.1. having slow boot issue. was considering buying latest AMD card but now no driver support from AMD , no problem will continue using nvidia.
Redemption80
I'm guessing AMD weighed up losing sales to Nvidia by dropping support for W8, and probably considered it negligible compared to the cost of maintaining W8 drivers.
It is what it is, it's not AMD fault it's not a popular operating system.
alanm
AMDs driver team must be working all out preparing for RX Vega release that they simply have no time for anything else.
Sixtyfps
Im a 8.1 and this disappoints me considering Windows 8.1 still has windows support till the end of this year. I actually didn't like 7 or 10. Im 8.1 forever. FU AMD
FeDaYin
Upgraded from 7 to 8.1 and it feels way smoother than 7 in games, even youtube feels a lot smoother, without tearing or stutter.
Sixtyfps
FYI i hear people complain about metro and no start menu LMAO http://www.iobit.com/en/iobitstartmenu8.php SOLVED works %100
Sixtyfps
DLD
AMscumbagsD, they seem to miss whenever they hit...
TheDeeGee
tsunami231