Has anyone got AMD HD 4000 series drivers and Catalyst working in Windows 8.1?

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edoantonioco

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I still cant install it. I went to Device Manager, display adapters,I selected the adapter and then any of the options show me the legacy 13.1/13.4 driver than I have in a folder previously selected. In others words, this tool does not show me the driver. So, I install it manually, and it install it, but then I restart and it continues with the same default driver. Any help will be welcome.
 
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Seems to be than there is a new driver for HD2000-4000 GPU, but officially only for vista and windows 7 (Catalyst 13.9 WHQL Legacy). Look for it in the amd driver section (for windows 7 drivers)
Does somebody knows if it works in windows 8.1?
 
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edoantonioco

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tipoo said:
Can't seem to find 13.9, link please? The beta version is still showing 13.4

Hmm there's 13.11 too
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/mobile?os=Windows+7+-+64
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You have to choose "windows 7" in the box in amd drivers, to see it.
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=legacy2&os=Windows 7 - 64
Seems to be that one can works, but I will thy this one (recommended above). (Of curse, its a patched driver, not official, but seems to be the only one than works)
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=372799
last time the post was updated was today, and I read it is newer than the 13.9 driver.
Another thing is than it brings some features than are not avaiable in the default driver
http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=4709481&postcount=2773
But looks interesting. Anyway, if you install the official W7 new driver (13.9), I would like to know if it works for W8.1.
 
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Spjut said:
According to AMD, the 13.9 Legacy driver should work on Windows 8.1 by following these steps
http://imgur.com/64PyUUA

This was posted on AMD Radeon Graphics twitter
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I followed that, and nothing happens, the installation was ok, no problems or warnings, and then I followed the instructions, but only appears the wddm driver. It is still using it.
 
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edoantonioco said:
I followed that, and nothing happens, the installation was ok, no problems or warnings, and then I followed the instructions, but only appears the wddm driver. It is still using it.
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Ok.
It irritates me greatly that AMD's support for their older products is so lacking, Nvidia still supports all their DX10 cards...Even the Geforce 6 series got support for Windows 8.0
 
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janjans said:
Hi All,
For all people who would like to use their Radeon HD2000 to HD4000 video cards on Windows 8.1 (x32 & x64), please look at the following site;
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=372799
It really works, but read everything very well before you begin.
download the file from here;
http://www.mediafire.com/download/r...HotFix+10+P6+V11.10.6.7.4+All+Supported+OS.7z

It's working for me.
Good luck.
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After failing with all the official driver attempts, i went for this one, and it seems to be working pretty well. Catalyst works, the display driver is updated, GPU-Z and games are detecting things better. Thanks.

Are there more benefits to the Guru3D driver than just compatibility?
 
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I'd like to point out that nvidia provides drivers for cards as old as the 8800gtx, which predates the unsupported AMD radeon 4890 by 3 years.
 
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mindbomb said:
I'd like to point out that nvidia provides drivers for cards as old as the 8800gtx, which predates the unsupported AMD radeon 4890 by 3 years.
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The Radeon 4000 series is not "Unsupported". It simply is placed in its own line of drivers (The legacy drivers).

The GTX 8800 was released in November of 2006 (Ultra was in May of 2007). The HD4000 series was released in June of 2008. That is not three years.

I personally see no reason to have cards that are 5.5 years old in the mainline driver.
 
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Stuka87 said:
The Radeon 4000 series is not "Unsupported". It simply is placed in its own line of drivers (The legacy drivers).
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You can't install the 4000 series or older Legacy drivers in Win 8.1 without workarounds with varying degrees of success. This is pretty much the definition of "unsupported".

I found this thread because I an having trouble installing drivers for my HD 2400, which sometimes displays corrupted text with the driver provided by MS.

I agree that old cards shouldn't be in the main line of drivers, but legacy drivers should at least install on the latest OS. Especially a card like the HD 2400, which was never intending for gaming, and is still perfectly adequate for 2D operation.
 
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mindbomb said:
I'd like to point out that nvidia provides drivers for cards as old as the 8800gtx, which predates the unsupported AMD radeon 4890 by 3 years.
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It's not the first time AMD drops support early on. Their DX9 cards were also moved to legacy status early, and they only got 1 year of legacy drivers before being dropped completely
 
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