R9 270x Vista Driver

[ryanrapetti]

I've got an R9 270X (ASUS) and Windows Vista. I've heard that the windows 7 driver can be used, with some INF editing. Anybody know the edits?

 

[Novuake]

Just use Windows 7 Drivers. No need for editing anything.

 

[ryanrapetti]

I've tried installing the drivers on the ASUS cd, the latest stable (13.9?) and the latest beta (13.11beta9.5?). All appear to install, but the card is never detected correctly and I'm still on the basic VGA driver. I've tried installing manually (run the msi files in the display driver directory), but Vista refuses to use the newer drivers. I also tried forcing it to use the 13.4 driver for the 7800 series. It worked, but the screen was scaled oddly and windows thought that there were like 6 displays attached. Not quite good enough. I've also tried using

pnputil -i -a C:\AMD\path\to\driver\*.inf

to install the win7 drivers directly. I then tried to update the driver manually from the list of installed drivers, but the R9 200 series still isn't on the list. I haven't tried post reboot, however. I'm starting to suspect a bad card, but I don't want to saddle newegg with a return over a driver problem.

 

[Pat D]

I've tried installing the drivers on the ASUS cd, the latest stable (13.9?) and the latest beta (13.11beta9.5?). All appear to install, but the card is never detected correctly and I'm still on the basic VGA driver. I've tried installing manually (run the msi files in the display driver directory), but Vista refuses to use the newer drivers. I also tried forcing it to use the 13.4 driver for the 7800 series. It worked, but the screen was scaled oddly and windows thought that there were like 6 displays attached. Not quite good enough. I've also tried using

pnputil -i -a C:\AMD\path\to\driver\*.inf

to install the win7 drivers directly. I then tried to update the driver manually from the list of installed drivers, but the R9 200 series still isn't on the list. I haven't tried post reboot, however. I'm starting to suspect a bad card, but I don't want to saddle newegg with a return over a driver problem.

I am having same issue. Keep it posted on what you guys r doing. I will do the same. I have a thread open as well.

 

[Novuake]

Hmmm thats quiet a few tries. This scaling issue could be fixable with just a settings in CCC. Did you try that?

 

[ryanrapetti]

I managed to make the drivers on the CD install by editing the INF. There are a couple places where you see

NTamd64.6.1

This indicates that the driver is for Win7 (6.1) If you change it to 6.0, you fool it into thinking that the driver is for Vista. MS has a thing on INF file format (google that, and it pops right up) that's actually helpful. It breaks driver signing, so you'll have to allow that when it asks, and the driver must be installed through the device manager- it won't install with the setup program or with the .msi package. At this point, my monitor is still detected as a generic PnP, and the black bars remain. Plus only one fan turns on, and GPUTweak only seems aware of the one. Maybe the other one is bad, and I need to RMA. Another note- the INF for 13.9 and 13.11beta does not have an entry for any of the R7/R9 cards. Not sure if they will work at all.

 

[azzazel_99]

Why not upgrade to windows 7 or 8?

 

[ryanrapetti]

I have a moral opposition to giving MS any more money. Plus, my budget was exhausted with hardware. I want to go primarily Linux, with Windows for Crysis and the handful of non-Valve titles I play. I refuse to pay $130 for a secondary OS when I already own a copy of Vista.

 

[azzazel_99]

Lol ok.

 

[ryanrapetti]

Ok, found an answer on AMD's forums. There's at least one guy on there griping (impolitely, and therefore probably ineffectually) about lack of Vista support. Here's the link:

http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=454&threadid=169548&highlight_key=y&keyword1=vista

It's basically a better formatted and detailed version of what I did. The 13.11beta9.5 drivers do have the R9 series, but as a single R9 2xx entry. I also discovered that Catalyst Control Center doesn't like the Generic PnP Monitor driver. When it's active, CCC has basically no options, like you don't have AMD hardware at all, even when the GPU driver is correct. Switching to the Digital Flat Panel driver and rebooting fixes the whole thing, and enable all the scaling options. Then I turned off the overscan and everything lined up perfectly.

 

[junkeymonkey]

the 13.12 driver shows it now has vista support

 

[sjstriker]

Ok, found an answer on AMD's forums. There's at least one guy on there griping (impolitely, and therefore probably ineffectually) about lack of Vista support. Here's the link:

http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=454&threadid=169548&highlight_key=y&keyword1=vista

It's basically a better formatted and detailed version of what I did. The 13.11beta9.5 drivers do have the R9 series, but as a single R9 2xx entry. I also discovered that Catalyst Control Center doesn't like the Generic PnP Monitor driver. When it's active, CCC has basically no options, like you don't have AMD hardware at all, even when the GPU driver is correct. Switching to the Digital Flat Panel driver and rebooting fixes the whole thing, and enable all the scaling options. Then I turned off the overscan and everything lined up perfectly.

Hey there, can you be more specific as to how you lined it all up to work? I know that guy said 13.12 works with windows vista, but it isn't working for me(and many others) still. I have tried manual install and everything. Any help from someone who's been there would be a lot of help at this point. I've done everything but a re-format.

 

[smeezekitty]

13.9 and 13.11 do not support Vista

13.12 should

 

[sjstriker]

13.9 and 13.11 do not support Vista

13.12 should

13.12 is not working for me. Vista 64 OS. I've done everything twice over. Im RMA-ing as we speak.

 

[azzazel_99]

upgrade from vista. Vista was always a crap OS anyway its probably a issue with vista.

 

[sjstriker]

upgrade from vista. Vista was always a crap OS anyway its probably a issue with vista.

When a company says it has a product that works with an OS I expect it to work, opinions aside.

 

[azzazel_99]

they also said vista was supposed to be the next best thing after XP.....was it? Lol no

 

[bigbollox]

they also said vista was supposed to be the next best thing after XP.....was it? Lol no

If you've got nothing to add except buy a new OS why don't you move on, to your bill gates shaped dildo. No mention of what OS should i buy in OP.

 

[azzazel_99]

Dude way to bring back a dead thread kid good job thumbs up

 

[chilledpain]

This is a very old thread now but thought i would share my fix to the problem. I could not get vista to detect my R9 270x.

The fix was to download CCC 13.12, run dot net update, install CCC. Dont worry if it doesnt detect your card.

Goto device manager, click on the graphics card device - Will say standard vga device or similar. Right click on it, click update driver. Select browse your computer for software, click let me select from a list of drivers on my pc, click have disk, browse your computer to c:/amd/support/13-12_winvista_xxxxxxx/packages/drivers/display/LH_INF and click the CL165822 file. Select your card from the list generated. I used R9 200 series. Click ok. Done.