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Did AMD Drop Support for Windows XP?

I bloody hope so. Companies dropping XP support is seriously long over due. Windows 8 is already out (for MSDN subscribers, but still), XP's support should have been dropped before 7 came out.
 
Regeneration said:
Yesterday, AMD released Catalyst 12.10 and Catalyst 12.11 Beta. It appears that both drivers don't support Windows XP. In fact, XP isn't even listed in the Catalyst 12.10 release notes. This could be a strong indication that AMD is planning to discontinue monthly driver support for Windows XP.

Read more: http://www.ngohq.com/news/22541-amd-to-drop-driver-support-for-windows-xp.html
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Not the brightest move, a year or so back some of the old OpenGL games stopped working...don't know the current status though.

Not everybody plays the latest DX11 only titles and XP is still the most used OS world wide but you could see why maybe they would want to focus on just the latest games for their monthly patches.
 
JAKUS said:
Not the brightest move, a year or so back some of the old OpenGL games stopped working...don't know the current status though.

Not everybody plays the latest DX11 only titles and XP is still the most used OS world wide but you could see why maybe they would want to focus on just the latest games for their monthly patches.
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99% of people using Win XP don't game, its used on millions of business PC's and millions of home pc's of people who don't game how widespread it is versus who games on what OS aren't remotely relevant to each other. As for DX11, thats irrelevant as well, seeing as DX9 works on all OS's not just win XP.

Getting rid of support for those who don't need it IS a good idea.

How many people buy a new gen card, with dx11 or dx10 and run Win XP? Very few, most of those who still game on Win XP will have older cards, which don't get any updates anyway. Theres basically smeg all left to fix, you'd probably find the code for a 4870 card is the same in a Cat 10.1 and a Cat 13.10, its just the same code put in a new package. The changes will be to newer cards which need more fixes and newer games utilitise newer graphical effects that only newer cards can run.

Outside of people kidding themselves they get better drivers, new drivers on old cards do essentially nothing at all.
 
JAKUS said:
and XP is still the most used OS world wide
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Steam survey suggests 73% of users surveyed are using win 7 and only 12% using winXP.

As the survey is completed by gamers, their target audience, then the survey suggests AMD are right to drop support.
 
Sad in a way if true - xp has been brilliant despite a good few teething problems ; 11 yrs young and still going.

My sons comp. still runs it and he games - still some life left.

But would agree that for them to try and optimize drivers for all the differing os's (partic. with differing dx )would not be viable (without throwing a shedful of cash at it - for probably very few users)- better they stick to (Vista ?) , 7 |& 8.

Afterthought - may be the death knell of games being written to run on xp?
 
If I was on a tight budget with a reasonable 3 year old PC on XP looking to buy a modern midrange GFX card and I saw Windows XP was not supported I would look elsewhere !

The manufacturers tell us their profit is in the mid-lower range cards..I think it's short sighted.

I don't think we can really be that objective around here, as most of us have the latest tech ;) and we are all thinking only the higher end cards.
 
There are already some games that won't run on XP and MS themselves are dropping support for it in early 2014. It's a decent OS now, was great in its day. But it's time to move on now.
 
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