32 bit XP drivers mod for AMD 290

Discussion in 'Videocards - AMD Radeon Drivers Section' started by gokica, Dec 22, 2014.

  1. gokica

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    Hello all,

    I bought AMD 290 card but was not aware that XP is no longer supported in terms of drivers.

    I game on Windows 8 but my work is done on XP so I need a solution for XP 32 bit.

    Any help is much appreciated. Thank you.
     
  2. theoneofgod

    theoneofgod Ancient Guru

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    Why would you do that :)
     
  3. MacT

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    Might be easier to update the work. I mean, it is 2014 - not 2001
     
  4. davido6

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    think u going to struggle finding drivers tbh
     

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  6. Espionage724

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    Why not use a virtual machine for XP?
     
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    I recently bought a Radeon R9 290 and I was kind of confused why I couldn't install the drivers on Windows XP. I still use that OS to play older games which for whatever reason don't seem to communicate well with Windows 8.1. I understand XP is an old, unsupported system, so I guess there is no point in wasting resources for making drivers for newer GPUs for such an OS... and that's good, I prefer AMD keeps making those Omega drivers better :)

    ps - Catalyst 14.4 do not work, either, sTOrM41.
     
  9. CalculuS

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    I can't find any drivers that should work on Windows XP with your GPU.

    Sorry mate, you're left out.
     
  10. Extraordinary

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    Upgrade the OS?

    No reason to still be running XP with hardware like a 290 in there

    If you need legacy programs to work, which most will with 7 anyway, but for the few that won't, Virtual Machine
     

  11. gokica

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    I want to thank everyone for the kind answers and help.

    I have triple boot (XP, 7 and 8) on my machine. All the work is being done on XP and all the fun stuff on 7 and sometimes 8.1.

    I like XP because of the way it renders text, which is most pleasing for my work, and also loads the database program that I work in fastest. I do not know why.

    It is blazing fast from an SSD and has no UAC or warnings that are "unnecessary evil" for my work (does not require fiddling).

    Since I have a lot of software loaded it will take me days to reinstall all the stuff.

    But I guess the time is for migrating. I just wish this card had drivers for XP to last me until I switch to new motherboard and processor when the migration would have been worth it (actually necessary).

    Once again thank you.
     
  12. theoneofgod

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    Triple booting those 3 is a complete waste of time.
    You can adjust text rendering and disable UAC. Last option if you don't want to make the change, run 8.1 with XP in a Virtual Machine using VirtualBox.
     
  13. xodius80

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    Hello, i have one question, does working in xp demand any gpu requirement? because you can Virtual Machine Windows Xp in newer versions of windows. Just a thought.

    I too had a similar problem with a software that would not run on new versions of windows, so VM was very helpfull.
     

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