Hd4850 crossfire drivers

ste2425 · Jan 6, 2013

Hi guys n gals

A friend very kindly donated me a mobo and power supply capable or running my hd 4850 with another in crossfire. I've purchased a second one on the bay for 15 quid posted (that's a sour note considering how much I paid for mine new). There's a multitude of information on how to install crossfire but my question is what drivers. I suspect drivers have stopped being produced for my card now and from my experience ATI's drivers have been questionable at times so what driver version would you recommend for best performance? I'm very much looking forward to playing and playing with crossfire, never had a setup capable of running it before

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Thanks all

erocker · Jan 6, 2013

All you need to do is go to AMD's website and you can select what card you want the driver for. It will link you to the driver to use automatically.

Troopy · Jan 6, 2013

Just use your current driver if your just adding another 4850 and enable xfire in Catalyst control centre, thats basically it.
The last hd4850 drivers are 12.6 i believe.

ste2425 · Jan 6, 2013

I understand that I can go to amd's website for the latest drivers

. But I was under the belief that the latest doesn't alway mean best for performance. Just wondering if there's slightly older drivers that I could gain better performance out of a wider variety of games with. Is I've read different driver versions can benefit different games

DarkOCean · Jan 6, 2013

Yeah the latest drivers for 4xxx series is 12.6 they are called legacy drivers on the amd website.

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Jan 7, 2013

When I was running my 4870's in cfire I used the 12.6's without any issues. If your not having any issues with your current driver just use it. You won't need to reload it or anything. Just install the second card and install the bridge. Reboot and enable crossfire under Amd Vision.

ste2425 · Jan 9, 2013

Ok great stuff thanks. Hopefully the card will arrive tomorrow quite excited

GotNoRice · Jan 10, 2013

Keep in mind also that despite being stuck with the 12.6 legacy drivers, you can still use the latest CAPs:

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/pages/crossfirex-app-profiles.aspx

Particularly useful when it comes to keeping crossfire performance optimal. I run 2x 4870x2 in QuadCF and 2x 4850 in two different computers and this is what has given me the best performance.

erocker · Jan 10, 2013

Someone at Guru3D modded the 12.11 beta 11 drivers for legacy cards here: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=372799

They might be worth a try? :toast:

ste2425 · Jan 10, 2013

Never used a modded driver before if I wish to un install it would I do so just as any other 'non modded' driver?

erocker · Jan 10, 2013

ste2425 said:
Never used a modded driver before if I wish to un install it would I do so just as any other 'non modded' driver?

After actually reading through it, no. I'd probably stay away.

cdawall · Jan 10, 2013

I run the legacy 12.6's on a dual 3870x2 rig they work fine in most any game.

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System Name	Ultra 64
Processor	NEC VR4300 (MIPS R4300i)
Motherboard	proprietary design
Cooling	Fanless aircooled
Memory	4.5MB 250 MHz RDRAM
Video Card(s)	62.5 MHz Reality Coprocessor
Storage	32 - 512 Mbit ROM Cartridge
Display(s)	720x576
Case	Clear Blue Funtastic
Audio Device(s)	16-bit CD quality
Power Supply	proprietary design
Mouse	N64 mouse for use with N64DD
Keyboard	N64 keyboard for use with N64DD

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Hd4850 crossfire drivers

ste2425

erocker

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Troopy

ste2425

DarkOCean

ThE_MaD_ShOt

ste2425

GotNoRice

erocker

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ste2425

erocker

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cdawall

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