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Radeon 6850 & 4670 in same system -- driver issues

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August 25, 2013 6:59:22 PM

Greetings,

I have a PC I built a couple of years ago that has, as it's main graphics card, a Radeon 6850-based card by PowerColor. I run a quad-monitor setup, so I tossed one of my older graphics cards in the box as well: a Radeon 4670-based card by HIS. This has been running fine under 64-bit Windows 7 for the past couple of years, until a recent (?) change by AMD/ATI in their driver support.

It seems that at some point, AMD split the drivers for the 5000-7000 series cards and the drivers for the "legacy" 2000-4000 series cards. Now, neither set of drivers works properly on my system. When I install the legacy version of catalyst my system is wildly unstable (and presumably my 6850 wouldn't be running optimally even if it were stable). When I install the new 6000-series version of catalyst, my 4670 doesn't work at all. I tried to be clever and installed the 6000 series version of catalyst and then forced the 4670 to pick up just the drivers from the legacy installer, but this was also completely unstable (no games would run, even Chrome was crashing, etc.) -- I had to system restore out of that state.

Does anyone have any experience with this issue or any suggestions for how I might work around it? Or am I stuck just going out and buying a cheap video card from the 6000-7000 generation?

Thanks!

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August 25, 2013 7:13:08 PM

I do believe you will have to buy a newer card sadly.
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