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AMD needs to get their act together with drivers. Their driver is 161MB, and only goes back to the HD2000 series. They drop support for cards that were flagship cards just 2.5 years ago to "shave a few MB off the driver". Come on, nVidia is still releasing drivers that support all the way back to the 6000 series cards, and their driver file is only 159MB.
If you are going to phase out support at least do it grandually, phase out one generation at a time as you introduce a new generation. Don't just axe 3 generations of cards in one swipe, especially not when they were selling as flagship cards just 2.5 years ago. That is just way too short of a life span, I would expect at least 3 year of support with new drivers out of a card. At least long enough to get through the (common) warranty period...
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