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    Display Driver for 5870m help

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Xellon, May 25, 2017.

  1. Xellon

    Xellon Shinobi of the wind

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    http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=legacy3&os=Windows 10 - 64

    According to this, I have the latest display driver for my graphics card. Its quite old and most likely they stopped making drivers for it.

    amd installer tells me a new version is available but it installs an older version.... why I dont know. I was wondering if there are any other drivers that are compatible? For ex, I was told one time to install a desktop driver on my laptop. I tried it and it worked with errors but I didn't really liked the errors so I went back.

    Honestly, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with my current drivers but if newer ones can squeeze out more fps, I'd be interested.
     
  2. StormJumper

    StormJumper Notebook Virtuoso

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    There is no new drivers in Win10 for this old of a system. Your not going to get anymore fps then it can give. Windows 10 doesn't support legacy drivers. Windows has made this quite clear to legacy drivers are a no go. Your only choice is to load Win7 drivers into Win10 and hope it works without problems.

    This is the site you should look for your GPU.

    http://support.amd.com/en-us/download#2

    But anything older then 2016 will not have Win10 drivers or support for it. Any other drivers other then 12.10 I would not use as there is nothing to guarantee stability for the GPU since your system has nothing that will run properly for Win10.