HD 4870 +WIN 10 driver issue

[jancsiattila57]

Hi i have an hd4870 and tring to install the driver on win 10 but it fails every time, i have read the log, everything was OK expect the Video driver, >>> catalyst wont start, cant chage the resolution,

 

[falconpunch3D]

Don't think there is a supported driver for Win 10 (at least there definitely wasn't for my old HD4850). You can use generic drivers but there isn't full functionality.

 

[jancsiattila57]

I acctualy have an r9 380 which ofc works fine, i bought hd 4870 coz it was cheap, and wanted to put it into "family" pc, so u think it will work on win 7- 8 ??

 

[falconpunch3D]

Yeah my HD4850 driver was supported in Win 7... not sure about 8. You can search on AMD's driver page, it should be pretty clear there which cards are supported for which OSes.

Also though, the "generic" driver wasn't a complete deal breaker, I was able to use 2 monitors which is what I wanted it for, but the settings were pretty limited

 

[BFG-9000]

The HD4870 driver on WindowsUpdate works great, just doesn't support Catalyst Control Center. You use the regular Windows Display Properties to change the resolution.

If you wanted to change the AA and AF settings you can do that with RadeonPro, and after those are set you could even uninstall it + the settings will stay.


There is a way to manually install the Win 8.1 driver if you really wanted CCC for some reason:
1: run the installer but close it after it unpacks all the installation files to C:\AMD.
2: in Device Manager, under Display adapters, right click on the adapter and click Update Driver Software.
3: Browse my computer for driver software. Click 'Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer' in the next menu and Have Disk...
4: Click Browse on the pop-up menu and go to: C:\AMD\AMD_Catalyst_13.4_Legacy_Beta_Vista_Win7_Win8\Packages\Drivers\Display\W86A_INF.
5: Select the first .inf file - C7156445.inf - and click open, then select the model HD4870 from the list and click Next.
6: The driver should install with several screen flickers.
7. Now re-run the legacy driver installer with administrative privileges and have it install the Catalyst Control Center.
8. Restart the computer.

Note that the Driver Version installed this way is 8.970.100.0 from 24APR2013, older than the version installed automatically by Windows 10: 8.970.100.9001 dated 13JAN2015.

Note also that the HD4870 was the Radeon Fury of its day as the first card with GDDR5--which could not be clocked down at idle without blanking the sceen, so ran at full speed all of the time and idles at 60w.

 

[jancsiattila57]

Yes i saw that "solution" on youtube, but when i need to pick the inf file, the windows does not display them so i cant pick it, oh and the line where u can set it to "All files" is simply MISSING, i think i will go back to Win7

 

[BFG-9000]

For sure you would need Catalyst or Crimson on the R9 380, but does a "family" pc really need to have CCC that badly? Especially when that driver is too old to have per-application game profiles anyway?

I saw a 4870x2 yesterday for $5 and didn't buy it. 286 watts!