Need Drivers for a Radeon HD 5770

AshburnerX · Nov 19, 2011

I've been to their website and I keep getting shifted around by it's design. For some reason the fucking link to the drivers on their site DOESN'T LINK TO THE DRIVERS. Can anyone just point me somewhere I can get them directly?

SpecialKO · Nov 19, 2011

Guessed on your OS (Win 7 64), but it this right? http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_win7-64.aspx

figmentPez · Nov 19, 2011

I've been letting Steam update my drivers lately.

AshburnerX · Nov 19, 2011

SpecialKO said:
Guessed on your OS (Win 7 64), but it this right? http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_win7-64.aspx

No, I'd need something on XP.

I guess I'll try the auto-detect thing. Maybe that'll work.

AshburnerX · Nov 19, 2011

Make that the XP 32-bit drivers.

figmentPez · Nov 19, 2011

AshburnerX said:
Make that the XP 32-bit drivers.

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_xp-32.aspx

AshburnerX · Nov 19, 2011

Oddly enough, the Steam Driver thing took me exactly where I needed to go to get what I needed. Works great now! I can finally game on PC again!

PatrThom · Nov 19, 2011

You probably don't want the XP-64 drivers anyway. Microsoft tried really hard to squelch that one before it got too popular (otherwise we'd probably still be using XP until 2020).

--Patrick

AshburnerX · Nov 19, 2011

Yeah, Microsoft is good at moving it's ass when it needs to. After Vista failed, it only took them what... 1-2 years to make 7?

PatrThom · Nov 20, 2011

Don't get me wrong. XP64 was actually really good. But it wasn't Vista, so they killed it. The kernel still lives on in Server2003-64, I believe.

--Patrick

Necronic · Nov 22, 2011

I was under the impression that XP-64 was an unstable piece of garbage. Maybe it just didn't get much support.

GasBandit · Nov 22, 2011

Necronic said:
I was under the impression that XP-64 was an unstable piece of garbage. Maybe it just didn't get much support.

It got no driver support, so it was basically even worse off than vista for getting anything non-generic to play nice. Pisses me off still that they went the vista - > 7 route instead of simply developing XP 64, which really had the potential to be the ultimate, dominant PC operating system for the forseeable future.

Necronic · Nov 22, 2011

Yeah but there were/still are a lot of security problems with XP that couldn't easily be resolved. They were behind the scenes so most people didn't notice them but they weren't insignificant, particularly ASLR which is a complete standard in OSs now, as well as significant improvements to the network security.

It's not really a knock on XP, it's just a matter of it's age. I still think that Vista get's a bum rap due to the poor release of it. After the kinks were worked out it was actually a great OS.

GasBandit · Nov 22, 2011

Necronic said:
Yeah but there were/still are a lot of security problems with XP that couldn't easily be resolved. They were behind the scenes so most people didn't notice them but they weren't insignificant, particularly ASLR which is a complete standard in OSs now, as well as significant improvements to the network security.

It's not really a knock on XP, it's just a matter of it's age. I still think that Vista get's a bum rap due to the poor release of it. After the kinks were worked out it was actually a great OS.

Windows 7 is, basically, "Vista without the suck."

What mostly grates on me about it is the arbitrary reassignment of configuration properties (IE, "control panel" redesign, "personalization," etc). There wasn't a need.

PatrThom · Nov 23, 2011

Driver support for XP64 sucked because it required all drivers to be 64bit in order to work. 32bit drivers would fail. Many companies didn't bother to rewrite their drivers, others just weren't in business any more to update them.

I'm still mad at Vista for starting all the HDCP/protected path nonsense. As someone who often works with video/audio, I wonder how much faster/more responsive my system would be if it wasn't wasting time making sure my stuff is legit.

--Patrick