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Reply With QuoteI can confirm, nvidia's 280.26 driver works perfectly fine. The HDMI audio also works fine. Hopefully tonight I'll get to installing a game and really putting them to the test.
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Currently, The ATI Catalyst drivers along with the nVidia drivers support Windows 8. In December 2010, nVidia released the 265.90 drivers that added Windows 8 support, every subsequent release since then has been fully compatible with all leaked builds of Windows 8. Some users have reported issues with Catalyst drivers for their AMD cards, however in my experience, all drivers since 11.4 (didn't test any earlier drivers than this) are compatible with Windows 8.
Once you've installed any build of Windows 8, Get your updated drivers from here:
nVidia notebook & desktop card drivers:
Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers
AMD Catalyst and Catalyst Mobility drivers:
AMD Graphics Drivers & Software
The current stable release of Catalyst is 11.7, with a leaked 11.8 suite available.
Latest stable nVidia release: 280.26, nVidia runs a public beta program available here.
Last edited by Mitchell_A; 09-10-2011 at 11:56 AM.
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I can confirm, nvidia's 280.26 driver works perfectly fine. The HDMI audio also works fine. Hopefully tonight I'll get to installing a game and really putting them to the test.
Last edited by BigFeet; 09-14-2011 at 11:59 AM.
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Thanks for your inputOriginally Posted by BigFeet
and welcome (as one of the first active members) to Windows8Forums.com, great to have you aboard
. The leaked 11.9 drivers are also fully functional (although Windows Update still installed a newer engineering sample version).
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Nvidia's latest drivers do work (seem to work very well) however; when I tried to use their auto scan my computer (activeX) method, I got handed the Linux 64 bit drivers for my Windows8 64 bit install. So just make sure you download them manually.
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Last edited by Trouble; 09-14-2011 at 03:42 PM.
It is never my intent to sound abrupt or discourteous. Often I am just being as quick and succinct as possible, since I assume getting a fast response to your issues is as important to you as seeing your issue resolved is to me. I apologize in advance for any unintended hurt. Best regards Randy.
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On closer examination (and in thanks to Rich), in order to have functioning Radeon Mobility (notebook) drivers, you need to use the leaked 11.9 suite. Which is available from here AMD Catalyst 11.9 RCx Win7 Vista download from Guru3D.com
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I was having lock-up issues with the newest nVidia drivers on my x64 Developers Version (I'm running a GT440), so I went back to the 275 release, and it's been working perfectly since. I don't want to upgrade to the current drivers again, of course - I also used the default drivers that MS gave during install, and they worked fine as well. On the 32bit version and the plain 64 bit that I installed, I had the same issues - I'm guessing it's something with the card I have, and that release of the driver. I will install the next driver release and update if the issue is fixed.
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I installed the ATI drivers mentioned in Post #5, but do not see a way of starting the Catalyst Control Center I see in my Win 7 installation. Am I missing something here? Thanks.
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I've moved away from the modded mobile drivers and am now using an AMD driver released on the 21st by Microsoft, one of the engineering samples. Unfortunately, it renders the VECC completely useless, but I could care less.
@Ted, have you ensured the CCC is selected for installation via "custom" install?
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Thanks Mitchell. I have uninstalled the AMD Catalyst drivers and went back to the drivers released and installed by Win 8. They seem to work fine. The leaked drivers did not seem to do anything more than what I had.
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I'm using the Catalyst RCx drivers, otherwise theres no crossfire support for my card. Engineering ones run well for me otherwise but I wanted crossfire so I could test gaming in 8. So far it's all going well.
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