R9 270x Drivers not working on vista

[15atlewis]

So I recently got a Gigabyte R9 270x. I went to the AMD site and downloaded the correct AMD catalyst driver installer thing. Apparently it didn't recognize my card. I went into the device control panel and it isn't there. However, everything is plugged in correctly, the fans on the card are spinning, I have a 750 watt PSU, and I went into bios and my Asrock Extreme 4 says that the PCI-E slot has the card in it and bios properly recognizes it. This leads me to believe it is Vista's fault. I have uninstalled the AMD software numerous times and re installed it.

 

[15atlewis]

It did solve the problem. I'm enjoying windows 8, the charms menu is a bit dumb, and I don't have a start button which is annoying but none the less I do like it.

 

[sjstriker]

It did solve the problem. I'm enjoying windows 8, the charms menu is a bit dumb, and I don't have a start button which is annoying but none the less I do like it.

Hmm, I think im going to RMA because I don't want to buy a new OS. I like Vista. They said it works with Vista, it should work!! I am going to go with a different card 😛

 

[Ymarsakar]

I had this same issue. Partial work around was to install the display adapter driver manually in device manager via right click. This is where you click on "I have disc" and then browse to the folder where the device drivers are. The device driver itself is a special file, it's not a set of software package like AMD drivers. Easiest way to find this for the Gigabyte is on their software CD that comes with the card. Although for some reason Gigabyte R9 270 only has drivers for XP and Windows 7, but not Vista.... so I just used the XP one.

By doing this, it forces windows to use that driver for the display adaptor if it is recognizing it only as VGA generic. But this doesn't operate beyond shader 3.0 even if my card is shader 5.0, so that's the other issue in Vista.