PC Graphics

[MammaMia]

I have 3 monitors on this Graphic Card Radeon 5870. They all work fine in linux, but in windows altho ive installed the driver directly from the AMD website it just won't work. It actually worked but for some reason only 1 monitor at the time. The other 2 are detected but are dead. No video input or anything. I've even upgraded my OS to Windows 11 to see if it would fix it but the same problem persists.

 

 

[FunkZ]

The HD 5870 launched in 2009. It was moved to legacy status in 2015 which is also when the initial Windows 10 version 1507 released. The last AMD driver available is 15.7.1 which may not work correctly in later versions of Windows 10 especially releases 21H2 and 22H2 or Windows 11.

To continue using the HD 5870 with Windows 10 you may need to revert to an early (and now unsupported) version. In these cases when using legacy hardware with insecure operating systems I highly recommend air-gapping.

[MammaMia]

Is there another solution like a third part software or something else? I refuse to think that the grapichs card is forever dead for windows

[FunkZ]

With only 1GB of VRAM and no DirectX 12 support the HD 5870 can't play modern games, so in that respect yes, it's dead.

However it was a great card for its era and still can be with the right setup. I have one in a legacy gaming AM3 rig running Windows XP with an air gap. Perfect for playing those older games that won't run on newer OS.

[MammaMia]

To be honest I'm not a gamer it's only for my monitors. Is it dead even for monitors? I can't use this in Windows 11? There must be something i can do mate

[FunkZ]

It's all about the drivers, and they're 8 years old. Kinda surprised that Windows 11 upgrade even worked and it didn't give any errors or warnings about the display compatibility? If it's working in Linux you could switch to using that or go back to an earlier version of Windows 10.

Or you could pick up a new(er) card, wouldn't need much if not used for gaming. Something that runs off slot power, prob save you some money on electricity too.