I meant: those who want to buy AMD for gaming, but can't, buy Nvidia instead. Hence spillover.Considering the huge performance gap between GeForces and Radeons in Litecoin mining, that's unlikely.
I meant: those who want to buy AMD for gaming, but can't, buy Nvidia instead. Hence spillover.Considering the huge performance gap between GeForces and Radeons in Litecoin mining, that's unlikely.
I meant: those who want to buy AMD for gaming, but can't, buy Nvidia instead. Hence spillover.
So, starting with some future driver release (possibly 340.), NVidia will get rid of the support of DX10 cards, and only Fermi, Kepler and Maxwell will be given support...
Say hello to AMD number 2
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3473
So, starting with some future driver release (possibly 340.), NVidia will get rid of the support of DX10 cards, and only Fermi, Kepler and Maxwell will be given support...
Say hello to AMD number 2
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3473
. That turned out to be a way better choice than the HD4870 I was considering at the time (plus 1GB 4870s were overpriced then). .
Radeon 4000 and down are great fun with Win8. The Catalyst Legacy 13.4 and 13.9 packs have come with a semi broken CCC that doesn't display video playback options. I need CCC to disable their ugly video post processing so I use Cat 13.1. Also, no driver other than the Windows Update release works with Netflix because of some DRM bug so you actually need to remove the driver after CCC is working. CCC works with the WU driver if you first install the Catalyst driver.
There is no Win 8.1 package at all and so if you want CCC you need to manually force the Win8 driver to install thru device manager and then install the rest normally.
I also like to reminisce over how bad 12.x was for the 4000 series. They created a lot of problems that year. And then in fall 2011, Cat 11.x, we had the Rage disaster.
I've posted in a couple of threads about my woes in getting the Netflix app under Metro in Windows 8/8.1 to work.
It now seems likely that the cause of my woes with Netflix were due to my installation of Silverlight to have rotted.
Out of the blue I wasn't able to use Amazon Instant Video and so I ran through their checklist of things to do. One of the last things to do was this.
I now had my Amazon Instant Video back and, feeling on to something, I tried Netflix again and I was now successful in using it.If you're still experiencing streaming issues, go to Microsoft Support to uninstall and reinstall the Silverlight player:
- For PC: Go to How to clean a corrupted Silverlight installation and then reinstall Silverlight, click the Microsoft Fix It button, and then follow the on-screen instructions.
I had googled this problem and I wasn't alone. Hopefully people will stumble on this fix by googling.
2014 : GTX 260 enters legacy support
2012 : 4870 is dropped altogether
I give AMD benefit of the doubt, they ought to support Radeon 5000/6000 for quite longer than their previous products because of Trinity, Richland and Bobcat (as long as they sell FM2/FM2+ which will be for a while)
Where can you find this driver?Err, 4870 is still on the Legacy-driver support, just like every other pre-DX11 HD-series card is. Latest Legacy-driver was released last October
This presumably:Where can you find this driver?
How so?
Better long term support. The card is still well supported (literally just entered legacy support). Not so with the competition from the time.
Yup it's the Metro UI Netflix. What happens with any driver other than the Windows Update driver is Netflix will buffer up to 90% or so, stop and then error out. AMD just keeps pumping drivers out with this problem (and a semi-broken CCC). I really doubt much work has been done to the driver in the entire time it's been on "Legacy" mode. They aren't even willing to get it signed for Windows 8.1.Are you referring to the Netflix app under Metro/Modern UI? If so then you might just need to reinstall Silverlight. I wrote about my my solution in another thread.
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=64822
Just a thought.