Catalyst Driver for HD 4000, HD 3000 and HD 2000 Series on Windows 8

[NoobyDoo]

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/legacy/amd_catalyst_12.6_legacy_win8.exe

This AMD Catalyst™ driver version features Windows® 8 support for the AMD Radeon™ HD 4000, HD 3000 and HD 2000 series. Please note that the driver is not Microsoft® logo certified and only supports WDDM 1.1 driver level features.

 

[Spjut]

This was good, it had looked so bad if these cards didn't get a Catalyst driver for Windows 8

Is it possible for DX10/10.1 hw to support WDDM 1.2 or is it DX11 only?

 

[ViRGE]

Well that's surprising. AMD doesn't usually do legacy owners much in the way of favors. They probably just rebuilt the INFs with entries for Win6.2, but that's enough to do the job.

This was good, it had looked so bad if these cards didn't get a Catalyst driver for Windows 8

Is it possible for DX10/10.1 hw to support WDDM 1.2 or is it DX11 only?

DX11 only. Certain features WDDM 1.2 requires simply aren't available in R700/GT200 and earlier hardware.