hd 4850 drivers for windows 8

Pipialot · August 27, 2014

hello... as you know amd dropped driver support for hd4000 and earlier gpus. i have a hd4850 and i wanted to try windows 8. am i completely screwed? or are there any tweaked drivers out there for me to try? have any of you guys tried to run win 8 with old 13.1 catalyst?

Clyne · August 27, 2014

will this work?

~~http://www.softwarepatch.com/drivers/ati-radeon-hd-4850-windows-8-1-64-bit.html~~

that was windows 8.1 my bad

then this

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=374563

Sheldon_King · August 27, 2014

hello... as you know amd dropped driver support for hd4000 and earlier gpus. i have a hd4850 and i wanted to try windows 8. am i completely screwed? or are there any tweaked drivers out there for me to try? have any of you guys tried to run win 8 with old 13.1 catalyst?

First off, if you are gaming on HD4000, you are not going to get much better FPS from new drivers anymore (and teh cards still perform quite well). Second, 13.1 runs well still (I ran it for almost a week as a diagnostic measure on my 7950). I would suggest just using 13.1, or upgrading to HD5000 series (or HD7000, as 7950s are running below $150 now used).

Pipialot · August 30, 2014

yeah i knew i wasnt gonna get any noticiable performance improvement, but since these mofos didnt even get 1 driver out for windows 8 i didnt want to switch to windows 8 and then having all sorts of crashes cause bad driver compatibility. if you say 13.1 works ill trust you and try it then.

as for upgrading ... i would looooveee it .. ive had this card for 5 years ... but i live in argentina and things are crazy expensive so ill be running my 4850 for a little while.

thank you very much

Sheldon_King · August 30, 2014

yeah i knew i wasnt gonna get any noticiable performance improvement, but since these mofos didnt even get 1 driver out for windows 8 i didnt want to switch to windows 8 and then having all sorts of crashes cause bad driver compatibility. if you say 13.1 works ill trust you and try it then.

as for upgrading ... i would looooveee it .. ive had this card for 5 years ... but i live in argentina and things are crazy expensive so ill be running my 4850 for a little while.

thank you very much

13.1 should work fine. You really won't need a driver though, as windows 8 and 8.1 both find drivers for at least GTX400 and HD4000/5000/6000 series cards on its own (may not always be the most recent though, it found 13.1 for my 7950s).

And I can understand that. I ran a 4870 up to last year. Great little cards, but at this point, they are moving more to oldschool gaming over current gaming. The performance is not going to be there for much longer.