hardocp.com - 10/30/2009
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On Wednesday we posted about DX9 only cards receiving legacy driver support status under Windows 7. AMD s Terry Makedon sets the record straight and clarifies what exactly this means for DX9 only video cards under Windows 7. WDDM1.1 (Windows Display Driver Model) is the driver architecture ...
support.amd.com - 10/28/2009
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support.amd.com —
AMD has moved a number of DX9 ATI
Radeon™ graphics accelerators products to a legacy driver support...
structure. This change impacts Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Linux distributions. AMD has moved to a legacy software support structure for these ...
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ATI Catalyst™ Legacy Display Driver
fudzilla.com - 10/28/2009
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fudzilla.com —
Image Get a new one We were surprised
to see that customer oriented AMD has decided to...
leave its all DirectX 9 supporters hanging. According to AMD's support site, its DirectX 9 cards won t be officially supported under Windows 7. AMD says: "Note: ...
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AMD dumps DirectX 9 card support under Windows 7
xbitlabs.com - 10/29/2009
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AMD clarifies Windows 7 driver support for DX9 hardware
DV Hardware —
... AMD's Terry Makedon send out a clarification about the driver support for DX9 hardware in Windows 7:
WDDM1.1 (Windows Display Driver Model) is the driver architecture required to run Windows7. To meet the Microsoft dictated requirements, GPUs must be DirectX10 and later level hardware. So as stated on our website, Windows 7 users with DirectX 9 AMD graphics hardware can use the legacy Windows Vista WDDM 1.0 drivers (as it is not possible for DirectX 9 hardware to support the WDDM 1.1 driver requirements). On a separate note the move to ...
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