AMD to Drop Driver Support for Windows XP?

**Regeneration** · October 23rd, 2012, 03:21 AM

Earlier today, AMD released Catalyst 12.10 and Catalyst 12.11 Beta. It appears that both drivers don't support Windows XP. In fact, XP isn't even listed in the Catalyst 12.10 release notes. This could be a strong indication that AMD is planning to discontinue monthly driver support for Windows XP. This won't be a surprise as some hot upcoming PC games (Black Ops II, Hitman Absolution) and even software (Photoshop CS7) won't support Windows XP either.

We sent an email to AMD with a link to this article asking for a clarification on this matter. We will update this story as soon when we hear back from them.

mkey · October 23rd, 2012, 09:04 PM

What do you mean by "monthly driver support?"

Thunder350 · October 23rd, 2012, 09:48 PM

This is long overdue, Windows XP is extremely outdated and has been dead for years now, they need to focus on the modern OS that the large majority of users use.

October 23rd, 2012, 10:44 PM

Thank god I use Nvidia and not AMDATI garbage.

October 24th, 2012, 02:42 AM

33% of all Windows users have XP, 12% have Vista. They should rather dump Vista support.

October 24th, 2012, 07:39 AM

This is ridiculous. Going into nVidia!

Thunder350 · October 24th, 2012, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Unregistered

This is ridiculous. Going into nVidia!

Nvidia already has plans to do the same. XP is over a decade old. It's way past time to retire it. Even half of today's programs either don't support XP anymore, or plan to drop it soon as well.

Athlonite · October 26th, 2012, 10:10 AM

About bloody time too it should like the HD2xxx 3xxx 4xxx GPU's have been relegated to legacy support ages ago