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AMD internal document - Catalyst 9.4: legacy support removed!

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As of ATI Catalyst 9.4 (based on the 8.60 driver) – to be released April 2009, AMD will move a number of older ATI Radeon™ graphics accelerators products to a legacy driver support structure. This change will impact Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Linux distributions. AMD is moving to a legacy software support structure to better focus development resources on future products and ensure driver stability for these mature graphics products.

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Meh, it happens. If you are running an older card like those listed, there likely hasnt been any (or very minimal) performance increase with newer drivers for some time anyways.
 
Meh, it happens. If you are running an older card like those listed, there likely hasnt been any (or very minimal) performance increase with newer drivers for some time anyways.
Exactly. No big deal. Though Im curious to see what they lopped off. :shrug:
 
I've been waiting for something like that for a long time now..

probably gives us smaller and more efficient drivers.. hopefully at least.
 
Exactly. No big deal. Though Im curious to see what they lopped off. :shrug:

This was actually reported back in February. Driver support for 1900 and earlier cards has been removed
from the monthly Catalyst updates after February 09 (or from February 09 on). 1900 and earlier cards
will now get driver updates on a quarterly basis until driver update support is eliminated completely (typically
12-18 months from hitting the quarterly list).

This is normal practice for ATI (and to a lesser extent NV as well). As these older cards become to slow
to play the newer games, at virtually any meaningful resolution, driver (3D) updates and game bug fixes
become a moot point for these old cards. They are of course still fine for 2D work and for 3D games that
were the target in their day with the older drivers.

Viper
 
good! out with the old, besides most new driver releases do nothing for older cards anyways.

trim the fat and move on!
 
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