Windows 10: W10 & GFX Compatibility

I have W10 on my laptop and the graphic cards are being shown as incompatible and am currently using Windows VGA mode. I have dual card one for battery and one for elec plug in Radeon HD 4xxx series and HD 5xxx series respectively.

Does anyone have a line on when patches/upgrades will be forthcoming? I have friends with Nvidia cards that have the same compatibility issue.

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W10 Creator don't work on Apple hw ( mac mini '14 - Intel Iris 5100 )

Not only apple but i intel too.

Intel gfx driver is problematic in Creator buil W10 not only on mac hardware.

 

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Yes, upgrade the tablet to W10, you mention that you want to use it for your sewing machine embroidery, so before you upgrade try and confirm that the Embroidery program is compatible for W10, if it is a older program you may have difficulties.

If when, you do try to install the Embroidery program on W10, install with Admin rights & compatibility mode.

 

Possibly never.

Microsoft generally doesn't produce drivers for third party hardware. That includes the drivers that are distributed through WIndows Update.

It's entirely up to AMD. As they receive no income from supporting old hardware, they'd have to do it to preserve good will.

"Old hardware" doesn't have to be very old, just not for sale in the retail market any more. It's not unusual for old hardware to not be supported under a new OS. Notebooks can be particular tricky, because their manufacturers sometime use custom device IDs for their onboard graphics, so a generic driver installer from AMD (or nVidia) doesn't recognize them.

Good luck.

 

Yeah my understanding is the the OS devs release codes to graphic card makers so they can make patches. From what I understand on other forums Windows is aware that there are issues and so does Nvidia and AMD and they are working on it. I was kinda hoping someone here had imperical knowledge of the goings on.

As of this moment I have lots of questions to post about W10 hopefully this forum will provide answers.

 

here are the most up to date drivers I could find for AMD and Nvidia :

Desktop


Drivers | GeForce

 

That's true, as far as it goes.

If you expect to find people here with inside information from Microsoft, AMD, Intel, nVidia, etc., you may be disappointed.

If you think that AMD owes you working Windows 10 drivers for your laptop, you may be very disappointed.

 

As far as owing people, the way I look at, it they owe to themselves to open all avenues, even if just for advertizing purposes. They're all the time releasing patches for games heck I've seen AMD release 3 patches within a month for different things. The big deal in my mind with W10 is the DX12 deal that supposedly is backward compatible to DX9 why some cards that are DX10&DX11 capable have issues is beyond my expertise. I do know the M$ site did have a little blurb about the cards that are having issues(said they were ''looking into it'') M$ alone should owe to themselves to fix what they've broken for people, even if for good PR but it still boils down to $ and advertizing $ at that. Lots of craptops have Radeon HD 4xxx & 5xxx series cards so I'll bet dollars to donuts they'll come up with something. Just like the Windows Update feature that is now on W10 its Auto Update only, with no way to choose updates or what it is that is updated, I know people are going to howl about that.

 

thanks Hellishdream... BTDT..... AMDs 15.7 even states its for W10 but sadly it didn't work with the HD 4xxx & HD 5xxx series cards.

 

I mostly agree.

However, I'm accustomed to seeing companies like nVidia cutting support for graphics cards that are only a few years old. I doubt that AMD is a lot better. (Notebooks are sometimes worse, because the makers often use custom device IDs. That can block using generic drivers from the graphics chip makers.) Microsoft never came to the rescue; their basic drivers were never adequate.

In my view, Microsoft offers the free Win10 upgrade to put everyone running Windows 7 (GA nearly 6 years ago) on a single OS. Time will tell whether Redmond is prepared to twist enough arms to make that work for every PC sold with 7 or later. (Better, every PC that ran 7 well.) From the posts here, they haven't managed so far.

 

Would you be able to provide me with the exact models of GPUs, hd 4xxx & hd 5xxx is a bit vague?

 

My switchable graphic cards are:
1) the embeded mobo card is ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 (battery mode)
2) Radeon HD 5470 (plugged in high perfomance) 512mb model

I do know when I go to AMD the list it shows as 4xxx & 5xxx series when they update; whereas the older drivers from HP were very specific and called out the exact numbers. Past history dealing with these driver updates I found the HP specific updates worked whereas the generic ones from AMD did not. This isn't true with my desktop gfx they all work, take for instance I had an HD 6870 updating through AMD it was listed as HD 6xxx series and worked.

 

I agree only time wil tell. My HP dv7-4177nr craptop came with W7 Hm Prem and doing the ''will it run W10'' came back positive, found out the hard way about the gfx issues. Nvidia GTX 650 won't even POST according to forums I've browsed.

 

I use a Nvidia GTX 650 2Gb EVGA gfx card in my desktop , had no issues after updating the drivers to the specific 353.62 version. Even with an overclock it runs fine.

 

maybe it was the GT 650 but I do remember that number along with some four digit models to name a few. Glad it worked out. they (amd) came out with a 15.7.1 but it too didn't take.