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Title: Windows 7 32-bit drivers for 7970?
Post by: ShadesOfMarble on February 14, 2012, 12:23:02 PM
...where can I find them? Are they shipping with the card (on cd)? Or ist there no Win7 32-bit support yet?


Title: Re: Windows 7 32-bit drivers for 7970?
Post by: d3m0n1q_733rz on February 14, 2012, 01:21:14 PM
Have you checked the ATI website?  O_o


Title: Re: Windows 7 32-bit drivers for 7970?
Post by: ShadesOfMarble on February 14, 2012, 01:39:30 PM
I did, but it looks like you dind't. There are only drivers for Vista 32/64 and Win7 64. No XP and no Win7 32.


Title: Re: Windows 7 32-bit drivers for 7970?
Post by: jjiimm_64 on February 14, 2012, 06:24:53 PM

win7 is basically a vista..  you should try the vista32?


Title: Re: Windows 7 32-bit drivers for 7970?
Post by: singular on February 14, 2012, 09:05:37 PM
They are on cd. And i noticed i get almost extra +5% performance with them versus 64bit win7 and latest drivers from ati website.


Title: Re: Windows 7 32-bit drivers for 7970?
Post by: d3m0n1q_733rz on February 14, 2012, 11:00:35 PM
http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_win7-32.aspx


Title: Re: Windows 7 32-bit drivers for 7970?
Post by: ShadesOfMarble on February 15, 2012, 07:12:55 AM
http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_win7-32.aspx
O rly? HD 7000 Series is not supported by this driver....


Title: Re: Windows 7 32-bit drivers for 7970?
Post by: chiropteran on February 17, 2012, 09:03:59 PM
I'd try these-

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/catalyst122precertifieddriver.aspx


Title: Re: Windows 7 32-bit drivers for 7970?
Post by: sveetsnelda on February 18, 2012, 09:18:06 PM
I'd imagine that a 7970 driver for 32 bit windows would be basically worthless.  Since the non-server versions of 32 bit Windows only have 4GB of address space, one 7970 would take up 3/4 of it and you'd have a whopping 1GB of system RAM available for use.  If you added a 2nd card, you'd surpass the total available address space.  You'd either have no system RAM available for use, or you just wouldn't be able to use more than 1 card.


Title: Re: Windows 7 32-bit drivers for 7970?
Post by: ShadesOfMarble on February 19, 2012, 08:28:03 AM
Now that 12.2 is available this thread is obsolete, thanks everyone.