Yes, and so do the previous AMD drivers. nVidia users often have to resort to older drivers to play older games. Nothing new there.
Looks to me like Microsoft's way of doing it is working much better than OpenGL. The Direct X performance is typically better than OpenGL and more robust to boot.
Until it doesn't or you have to install a different driver just to get one game to work.
You can really tell who the long time AMD users are.
Using different drivers.....
When was the last time nvidia users had to do this? Please cite me a source for this rather then spreading FUD. I can say, as a nvidia user since the geforce 4 MX 400, that it has been a very, very long time since nvidia users have had to regularly do this. The last time I did that was the....9000 series I think? And that issue was fixed relatively quickly. Occasionally a new driver will break something really old, but said issue is usually patched by nvidia with the next release.
Meanwhile, AMD let this PR nightmare build, and has yet to respond officially as internet outrage lights up. DX9, despite what
SOME PEOPLE on this forum say, is still used on some newer games, ignoring that a massive portion of the PC gaming library still uses it. If AMD's attitude to DX9 is "screw it, its old" it wont be long until many AMD users are forced to go nvidia or stick with 400/500 or older cards, at least until such old drivers are not compatible with the current version of windows 10.
AMD has long suffered from bad PR on top of technical incompetence, but this is a bit of a gut blow. It's already bad enough that you cant buy their hardware almost anywhere, and that they have delivered the market to nvidia on a silver platter for a second time in a row, but now this issue pops up. It's just another black eye to AMD's now permanetly bruised face.
And for all the AMD 'fans' here white knighting them, if you want a huge chunk of your game library to be made unplayable, go buy a console. PC gamers expect their older software to continue working with newer OS/drivers, that is a pillar of the PC gaming community, and has been for decades. If AMD wants to limit themselves to low margin console sales, so be it. Not to mention, many current MMOs, FTP games, and competitive games are still DX9. These games are typically played with lower end hardware, where AMD typically dominates. AMD could easily be telegraphing these people 'go buy nvidia, you are not coin miners' to one of the few markets they still compete in.
