Drivers & Software

[Weles]

Hello everyone!
I would like to ask if anyone knows why drivers for r9 390x are available for wines 8.1 in version 17.7.1, while for win 10 and win 7 they are available in version 20.12.1?? Also for other versions of the system, such as linux, version 20.12.1 is available. Only win 8/8.1 has the 3 year old drivers.

[benman2785 · Accepted solution]

simply because Win7 was a business OS with many people using it - while Win8 and 8.1 were mostly on Tablets and Laptops for Personal-Users with only 3% of market-share

the way Win10 talks to hardware is vastly different than Win8 or 8.1 do

btw - in my opinion AMD should ONLY supply new drivers for Win10 (last 3 versions)

also: Win10 is pretty good now; like we have it on +50 PCs and i have less work as Admin than with Win7 ;)

conclusion: if you still use Win8.1 you should buy Win10 Pro and be happy with newest drivers // have in mind that if you have an AMD APU check if your APU iGPU is GCN - otherwise it wouldnt make sense to upgrade to Win10; as last driver for non-gcn is 16.2.1

[Weles]

Thanks for the quick reply.
Windows 10 already installed but mainly due to cyberpunk requirements.