Ati Radeon HD 4000 drivers for Windows 8, fix for slow OpenGL games, yes, including Minecraft
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I’m making this post solely for the purpose of people who can’t find a solution for this. If you have a Ati Radeon HD 4000 or lower like me you’ll notice that there are no drivers for Windows 8 listed when you go to the AMD website. AMD only supports Windows 8 from the 5000+. And the stock ones from Windows 8 are useless, mostly on the OpenGL side, some games won’t even load, or run really slowly, like your beloved Minecraft which uses OpenGL. The stock drivers won’t even allow 2048×2048 textures After some digging around the internet I found this article for old legacy drivers under Windows 8, weirdly not displayed on the list. So here you have it, it worked properly for me. http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/catalystlegacywin8.aspx Hardware: Operating Systems: |
Yeah, but still no openGL, man… it’s openCL only…
and i thought my notebook was good enuf… :/
*fp*
I’m using an onboard Radeon 3000. Following the above link, I was able to make Minecraft work, including Tekkit.
Thank you greatly!
A friend on mine found a Solution to this, but it took him days to get win 8 to downgrade the drivers. This is what he did:
What I did was to download a legacy version of AMD Catalyst for Win 7 (version 12.6).
Then I uninstalled all AMD components via Control Panel and rebooted.
Ran Catalyst 12.6 setup and rebooted. Found that the win 8 version of the Display adaptor still persisted even if I unistalled it specifically via the Device Manager. Of course I couldn’t update this backwards to the Win 7 version
so I gave up on that method and updated the Windows 8 adaptor to the Microsoft Basic Adaptor. This then allowed me to update from the Basic adaptor it to the Win 7 version and it seems to be working.