Did AMD discontinue support for HD6000 series?

[Red Hawk]

Edit: Whoops, wrong thread!

 

[FalseChristian]

The only reason I go with nVidia is because they have excellent OpenGL support for both old and new Games. I still enjoy playing older OpenGL games like RTCW and GLQuake with the Dark Places Mod which brings the game into the 21st Century.

 

[grimpr]

The only reason I go with nVidia is because they have excellent OpenGL support for both old and new Games. I still enjoy playing older OpenGL games like RTCW and GLQuake with the Dark Places Mod which brings the game into the 21st Century.

RTCW was one of my alltime favorites, any graphics mod for it like Quake?

 

[VirtualLarry]

I have some GeForce MX400 PCI cards. Will they run any modern OS at anything higher than 800x600? Do Vista, Win7, or Win8 contain out-of-box drivers that would work with them?

I was happy to find that Win7 contains out-of-box drivers built-in for the X1300 PCI-E cards, but Win8 does not. Very disappointed in that.

 

[Final8ty]

http://benchmark3d.com/amd-catalyst-12-8-whql-benchmark/4

 

[ViRGE]

My complaint with the AMD legacy drivers is that they don't even bother getting the drivers WHQL certified and digitally signed, which is potentially an issue for Windows 64-bit OS.

Every AMD driver release is digitally signed. They're just not WHQL certified.

 

[Magic Carpet]

I have some GeForce MX400 PCI cards. Will they run any modern OS at anything higher than 800x600? Do Vista, Win7, or Win8 contain out-of-box drivers that would work with them?

They will. I support several legacy boxes with AGP Geforce 2 MX cards. The only problem you will have is image quality at higher resolutions (i.e. 1000p and above). At lower/smaller screens and equipped with Conroe class processors, computing experience is still quite decent. Of course, getting a modern PCI card (such as this) will provide a much smoother experience, yet... I do not have the need for my uses, unless I'd get one for free.

Heck, even my ancient S3 Vision 968 4MB VRAM is able to run Windows at 1024x768 (haven't tried 1600x1200 but according to the specs, it can), albeit at a turtle's pace.

 

[tcsenter]

Every AMD driver release is digitally signed. They're just not WHQL certified.

Are you sure? I seem to recall the legacy driver for the X1000 Series (and prior DX9 parts), as well as the AGP Hotfix driver for AGP versions of HD 2000 ~ HD 4000, give a warning 'this driver is not digitally signed' but allow you to proceed, anyway.

 

[ViRGE]

Are you sure? I seem to recall the legacy driver for the X1000 Series (and prior DX9 parts), as well as the AGP Hotfix driver for AGP versions of HD 2000 ~ HD 4000, give a warning 'this driver is not digitally signed' but allow you to proceed, anyway.

I'm sure. If it wasn't digitally signed at all, you wouldn't be able to install them in the first place. If you go check the individual files in AMD's driver packages you'll see the security catalogs that provide the necessary signatures.

Unsigned video drivers are literally worthless; they can't be installed under normal circumstances.