Did AMD Drop Support for Windows XP?

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Originally Posted by Sparky

If you're trying to stay on the cutting edge of new games (or anywhere even remotely close), XP isn't the operating system to be doing it with.

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It works just fine for DX9 games, as long as driver support is there. And DX11 games are a minority.

Any new games that really need any sort of optimizations via drivers aren't going to be DX9. If a new games comes out in DX9, it is already using old tech which current drivers are going to be more than capable enough for.

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Originally Posted by Sparky

Any new games that really need any sort of optimizations via drivers aren't going to be DX9. If a new games comes out in DX9, it is already using old tech which current drivers are going to be more than capable enough for.

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doesn't make sense, look at Skyrim for example, it's DX9, and some older ("legacy") AMD cards suffer from some bugs, and even new cards (with 12.11) need some work.... it's always possible to optimize and have bugs, it doesn't matter if it's DX9 or 11...

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Originally Posted by Spectrobozo

doesn't make sense, look at Skyrim for example, it's DX9, and some older ("legacy") AMD cards suffer from some bugs, and even new cards (with 12.11) need some work.... it's always possible to optimize and have bugs, it doesn't matter if it's DX9 or 11...

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Yep, Skyrim is a perfect example. Drivers are still being tuned for this game, many months after the release.
Most games these days are console ports... Which means they use DX9.

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Originally Posted by c627627

? Windows 7 Search Engine is more difficult to use and not as reliable as Windows XP Search Engine. No GUI, and I always have to reboot from Win7 to WinXP to do a search and make sure a file is not really there because I caught Windows 7 search not finding files which existed and even took screen shots of it, they replaced a user friendly Windows XP search engine with a difficult to use and what's worse, unreliable one.

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Try FileSearchEX ... gives you the classic look and feel ...

Drivers will work fine in XP with tweaked drivers/INF, same as people have been doing for windows 2000. I'm running Win2k on 8 cores, 990FX and Nvidia 550Ti. Check my sig.