hi, so ive installed the legacy drivers for windows 8 for my 4870s but even if crossfire is enalbed or disabled the performance stays the same

is there a way to fix this to get it to work like in windows 7?

getting 8 FPS in games like aion with 2 cards >.> where i normaly got 100+ on windows 7

some games works fine and some doesnt

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**STICKY** | AMD Catalyst Driver for the Radeon HD 4000, HD 3000 and HD 2000

Per the bolded section, if you want higher than WDDM 1.1 driver features you will need to revert your OS back to Win7 your only other alternative is to upgrade your graphics cards to HD5xxx or newer.

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any reason why they dont care about HD4000 series or below cards?

Such is life with legacy hardware.  Lines need to be drawn somewhere, or it lets out all the bad-gunky.

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I should probably add that Crossfire in general is not a feature utilized by the majority of users, so it's not going to receive a majority of resources.  Crossfire in a legacy product, even more so...

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true true but now they release a half workind driver.. and Nvdia has working drivers for GTX 200 series thats the same time released as HD 4000 series and strangly enough those drivers works fine

and not many ppl use crossfire on legacy products? there u are wrong sir most ppl still use legacy since the cards have epic performance why upgrade a card if it works still like a dream

why dont they release a working driver and then stop support for it rather to release a half-assed one :/

If you go by what people still have and won't give up, then nothing ever turns into legacy hardware.  You could pick just about any old boat anchor, and chances are someone out there will still have it and love it.  It's a side effect of the Reality Distortion Field... most often found around Mac people, but can be seen elsewhere also. 

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lol mac people xD, i dont have a mac never will come near one >.< prefer my BSOD afterall

im a full AMD man with half working 4870s to say the least >.<

personaly i dont care about the date release of drivers i just want my crossfire to work again correctly will upgrade in the near future ofcourse but still ^^

The video card in my machine at home(a 5870) isn't that much newer, so yeah... I get not upgrading if it still works for you.

Time to go back to Win7 then...

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cant do that already bought windows 8 xD if microsft will refund me il gladly do it xD

...time for a newer set of cards then. 

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