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.
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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.
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
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.
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.
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.