If you have downloaded Windows 8 Consumer Preview and have a AMD video card you may want to checkout AMD’s new Windows 8 drivers. They have released a set of preview drivers for the 64bit and 32 bit version of Windows 8 support on the following cards:
AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
AMD Radeon HD 7000M Series
AMD Radeon HD 6000M Series
AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series
AMD A-Series APU
AMD C-Series APU
AMD E-Series APU
AMD FirePro Series
AMD FIrePro 3D Series
The release notes say the drivers include native Stereo 3D support, unified Video API, improved sleep/resume performance and optimised power consumption. So if your running Windows 8 and have one of the supported cards download the drivers from AMD
AMD Catalyst™ Drivers Windows® 8 Consumer Preview
Last Updated
2/29/2012
Article Number
GPU-153
Feature highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ driver for the Windows® 8 Consumer Preview:
Full WDDM 1.2
Highlights include:
Native Stereo 3D support: Windows 8 will natively support Stereo 3D for full-screen and windowed gaming, and video applications
Unified Video API – Video playback is now integrated within the DirectX® 11 API; enabling simultaneous high quality Video and 3D content, and the potential for enhanced video transcoding performance
Optimized screen rotation
improved sleep / resume performance
Optimized Power Consumption
AMD Eyefinity
OpenC™
OpenGL®
UVD
AMD Dual Graphics / AMD CrossFire™ Technology
AMD Overdrive™
AMD Catalyst Control Center / Vision Engine Control Center
Please note: A future AMD Catalyst Windows 8 driver release will add support for the AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series in the coming weeks.
Instructions: Download and install the Driver from the following location:
This release from ATI does nothing for me, it just installs some CCC stuff but no actual video driver is installed. If I try to open CCC it says:
CCC cannot be started. There are currently no settings that can be configured using CCC.
If I look in Device Manager the driver being used is:
ATI Radeon HD 4200 (Engineering Sample – WDDM v1.1)
I’ve set the desktop screen resolution to 1080p at 50Hz but I have massive black borders all ways round and no way to scale the desktop in CCC as you normally would.
@cw-kid
That drivers is for HD5000 and beyond, HD4000 arent supported, that drivers is just the windows 7 one (look out for WDDM specification), 1.0 is for vista, 1.1 is for 7 and 1.2 is for Windows 8.
HD4000 doesn’t have DX11 features, so no full support now.
OK, Scratch that, I have a HD4870 and found how to change it:
Open Regedit and go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\
Then, you will see some random numbers like {00112233445566778899AABBCCDDEE}
Check all of them, then, on the ones that have the Subkey 0000 or 0001 There will be a string named something like: DALR6 DFP1920x1080x0x60
That is my resolution right now (1920 x 1080 at 60 fps)
That will be filled with 00 00 00 zeroes and if it have a 08, change it to 00.
Look for that key on both 0000 and 0001.
Final key is something like:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{00112233445566778899AABBCCDDEE}001\DALR6 DFP1920x1080x0x60
Look for the 08 bit inside the string and change to 00. Remember to backup your registry, restart and bars should be gone.
I have the same ATI Radeon HD 4200 as the other cw kid. If what you’re explaining can help us, then should I only chane 08’s to 00’s, or also 64’s and DC’s?
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What about HD 4200 ??
This release from ATI does nothing for me, it just installs some CCC stuff but no actual video driver is installed. If I try to open CCC it says:
CCC cannot be started. There are currently no settings that can be configured using CCC.
If I look in Device Manager the driver being used is:
ATI Radeon HD 4200 (Engineering Sample – WDDM v1.1)
I’ve set the desktop screen resolution to 1080p at 50Hz but I have massive black borders all ways round and no way to scale the desktop in CCC as you normally would.
Thanks AMD !
@cw-kid
That drivers is for HD5000 and beyond, HD4000 arent supported, that drivers is just the windows 7 one (look out for WDDM specification), 1.0 is for vista, 1.1 is for 7 and 1.2 is for Windows 8.
HD4000 doesn’t have DX11 features, so no full support now.
OK, Scratch that, I have a HD4870 and found how to change it:
Open Regedit and go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\
Then, you will see some random numbers like {00112233445566778899AABBCCDDEE}
Check all of them, then, on the ones that have the Subkey 0000 or 0001 There will be a string named something like: DALR6 DFP1920x1080x0x60
That is my resolution right now (1920 x 1080 at 60 fps)
That will be filled with 00 00 00 zeroes and if it have a 08, change it to 00.
Look for that key on both 0000 and 0001.
Final key is something like:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{00112233445566778899AABBCCDDEE}001\DALR6 DFP1920x1080x0x60
Look for the 08 bit inside the string and change to 00. Remember to backup your registry, restart and bars should be gone.
I have the same ATI Radeon HD 4200 as the other cw kid. If what you’re explaining can help us, then should I only chane 08’s to 00’s, or also 64’s and DC’s?