AMD releases Windows 7 graphics driver

Might as well start the inevitable flame war, but where's nVIDIA with W7 support? I've got the RC and will put it on in a couple of days but I wonder if drivers will be ready.

Keeping in mind they were the cause for a significant amount of BSODs in Vista, hopefully they'll have their act together. It seems like it wouldn't be a problem considering the drivers run fine on Vista (which in turn, should run fine on W7), but WHQL readiness would be nice.

My primary desktop at work running 64 bit Win7 RC (upgraded yesterday from previous beta). The graphics card is 8400GS.
I have a lot of problems with 7, but non of them graphics related.
Actually, 7 is like ALL previous versions of Windows. Nice right after fresh install and reboot. It is not suited for 24/7 without reboot. Actually it reached 42 days, but was painfully slow with a lot of app crashes (Outlook, Office etc).
And i couldn't find real difference from Vista, but the "improved" interface. It is same sluggish, resource hungry OS as Vista.

Well, aparently Radeon HD 4770 is not supported in win7 until ccc 09.5 due arround 13th May.

Yeah sure, WHQL for W7 blah blah blah

The catch here is that they are now supporting for W7 only the HD series cards, but all the people with Radeon x1xx series cards (that you can actually buy brand new nowadays) are left in a support-less limbo because AMD decided that these cards are already "legacy". I have 2 computers with a Radeon x1600 Pro each, and now I just can use the crappy Vista drivers under W7, with broken opengl and all, and I cant even install the latest Xorg server (like in Ubuntu 9.04) because there wont be any new ATI drivers for these cards at all.

I could tell you what they can do with that WHQL.....but I wont....

Legacy doesnt mean, complete lack of support...

You will have win7 support, it will just come later, but it will come, as your cards are not top priority for a brand new os with dx11 compatibilities.

AMD said that these cards will receive updates, but obviously FAR less frequently than the newer series of cards.

They will not support "legacy" products.
9.3 was the last update.
9.4 and later will support only HD2000 and newer cards.

On the open world side, you have community driver which is not bad at all.
Sometimes even better than ATI's proprietary.

Ati decided to update legacy card drivers every quarter and HD cards every month. So next upgrade for old cards should be 9.6

Hope 9.5 solve the crossfire & 8GB RAM issue . . .

Just loaded Windows 7 RC (32 bit) and found that ALL my older XP apps work just fine. I see a lot of folks out there using the 64 bit version and having issues and wonder if its more issues with 32 to 64 bit translation vs issues actually in Win7.

Items loaded and working in 32 bit version. office 2003, project 2003, visio 2003 with sp3, nero 7, avg 8.5, firefox 3, xlite, hud lite, pdf995, winrar, irfanview, Wise Disk and Registry cleanup, Supreme Commander Forged Alliance.

I did have an issue with PC Wizard 2008 where one of the information button selections crashed when selected, cant remember which one so waiting for the 2009 version.

so maybe rather then rush to 64 bit, download and give the 32bit version a try. or be sure to only load and use 64 bit applications of which there arent that many yet.

They better get their shit together and start seriously putting some time into STREAM software. They are lagging heavily behind Nvidia's CUDA. Seriously, stop being distracted with the puke that is windows, whichever version, and start looking into the future, where GPU will be mostly responsible for processing.

yes, no support for the latest ubuntu or xorg 7 for anything older that 1 year. ati = better hardware while nvidia = better driver support.

If you plan ati 7, then ye'd be smartz to fav bookmark this driver. it'll probably be good enough for starters. it allowed install thru ultimate 32 part w/ sp1 addded & bunch o' updates, (this was BAD ultimate p 2 years ago & left, Now Updates Make It Fine) So Update Your MisCreants & 7 for Vengence e' biblica.
uninstall ati consule, install beta above & it didn't hang.(needed recovery council to restore) maybe becoming reliable add on from ultimate on 690G chipper. seems strong. Looked at C upiate'rights in dialouge box of terms & newest software here is 2001-2005 unicode. maybe looks towards merege of code into Ultee' Code. Now More Professionally Ultiamte than ever.

rest where C1990 like U of M. M.I.T. etalie' drashek