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AMD/ATI Drops Windows XP Support

Posted by timothy on from the sky-is-falling-just-very-slowly dept.

Billly Gates writes "The latest beta drivers for the Catalyst drivers control suite only list Vista as the lowest version they will support. We still have almost a year before Windows XP support finally ends. Will NVidia follow? So if you own a AMD system you will not receive audio, chipset, video, or any other drivers for your XP system and must upgrade or use an outdated legacy version. Looks like another death knell for this very long lasting platform."

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  1. Meh. by pushing-robot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you're buying the latest and greatest gaming cards, you're probably going to want DirectX 10 or 11, good multicore support, and an OS that can handle more than 3-ish GB of RAM.

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  2. Keyword: Beta Driver by rsmith-mac · · Score: 5, Informative

    The submitter is reading too much into this. The drivers linked are beta drivers - this is not the first time AMD hasn't published an XP version of a beta driver, due to the relatively low number of XP users on 5000/6000/7000 series video cards (all of which are post-Win7). XP is supported by the current WHQL certified driver (13.4) and I expect the next certified driver will support XP, too. If and when AMD does drop XP support they'll announce it a couple of versions ahead of time, just as they did for Win9x and Win2K.

  3. Re:except when there's a security bug by Rockoon · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is XP that we are talking about, where people nearly universally run it as administrator.

    Using a display driver exploit on XP is like using C4 explosive to open a screen door.

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