Windows 10

[huntor]

Well this kinda brought me up to speed on how windows 10 will work if you upgrade.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft- ... indows-10/

Guess once you are done with the upgrade process. If you wipe and re-install 10 and skip the key code twice. Once online it can detect your hardware and match to the database and activate your windows. Kinda cool. Not sure how hardware upgrade would work though. Hopefully just as easy.

[Windstalker-PG-]

I upgraded the wife's laptop to 10 and it seems to be working ok, my gaming laptop apparently either will be a while or won't be eligible, it says the drivers are not available for my video card. (AMD Radeon 6770, 1 gb)

[huntor]

Here are the minimum specs.

Processor:
1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster processor or SoC

RAM:

1 gigabyte (GB) for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit

Hard disk space:
16 GB for 32-bit OS, 20 GB for 64-bit OS

Graphics card:
DirectX 9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driver

Display:
800x600

Also here are the supported driver for your graphics.

​AMD Mobility Product Family Compatibility ​
AMD Radeon™ R9 M3​00 Series AMD Radeon™ R5 M200 Series
AMD Radeon™ R7 M300 Series AMD Radeon™ HD 8000M Series
AMD Radeon™ R5 M300 Series AMD Radeon™ HD 7000M Series
AMD Radeon™ R9 M200 Series AMD Radeon™ HD 6000M Series​
AMD Radeon™ R7 M200 Series ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5000 Series​

This is the windows 10 driver. So it might have something to do with having a very old driver maybe? Is yours the HD version?

If you need help with this I can probably help ya out. Sometimes the old driver has to be removed before it will allow you to upgrade. Also you have to have all the latest .net versions installed as well before you can use the latest AMD driver.

[Windstalker-PG-]

Thanks Huntor, but I got the notification that it was now available for download, so will try it and see. I am hoping this will solve the issue I have been having with the video card driver crashing.

[Windstalker-PG-]

now all of a sudden when I try to play DFX2 and/or Black Ops my laptop is crashing to blue screen and I am getting a "VIDEO_DXGKRNL_FATAL ERROR" I have checked and rechecked that all of my drivers are up to date. I can play World of Tanks and World of Warships, but World of Warplanes, War Thunder and DFX2 cause a crash... wtf??

[BLAZIN GUNS-PG-]

Windstalker before you up-dated your g/card drivers you was having issues and now your having more issues with the new driver ? what version of windows you using ? could you list your model of laptop plz

[Windstalker-PG-]

I was having issues due to outdated drivers, but as a part of the windows 10 package, the video drivers were updated to the latest version. My system specifications are : HP Pavilion DV7
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit; Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz; 165A 10.31; Bios F.1B; Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000; 1600 x 900; Driver 9.17.10.4229 (5/27/2015) Gaming Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6700M Series; 1280 x 1024; Vram 4,875 MB; Driver 15.200.1062.1004 (8/3/2015).

For some reason DFX2 doesn't recognize the AMD card and tries to play with the intel video.

[huntor]

I think I had to right click on the game icon and tell it to pick the nvidia graphics card before I tried to start the game up. DFX2 will only use what the default graphics card otherwise. Which in this case would be your intel graphics card.

You pick Run with graphics driver. It should give you two options to pick from.

Also 15.8 is in beta which may fix some issues.

Resolved Issues:

[424009] Adobe® Lightroom may crash if GPU rendering is enabled
[423336] Mouse cursor coordinates may be swapped on some 3x1 Eyefinity configurations
[421110] The Witcher® 3: Wild Hunt - Corruption may be observed when AA is enabled in AMD CrossFire™ mode
[424127] The Firefox browser may crash while opening multiple tabs (2 or more)
[425168] Anti Aliasing settings are not retained after Applying in the AMD Catalyst™ Control Center
[425156] System hangs when launching Call of Duty® - Modern Warfare 3 or Diablo™ III
[424776] Metal Gear Solid® : Ground Zero may crash when launched
[425421] Call Of Duty®: Black Ops III - texture corruption observed when launched in DirectX® 11 mode
[425452] Sword Coast Legends - FRTC settings are not activated in the game
[411945] Project CARS may experience corruption when AA is set to D2SM
[425382] A green screen may be observed on some "Llano"/"Ontario" APU's when playing video under Windows 10
[424330] Watch Dogs™ may experience flickering / corruption after changing game resolution
[425440] AMD HDMI® Audio is disabled after driver installation
[423013] F1 2015™ may experience flickering during gameplay or in game benchmarking
[422551] Call of Duty® - Advanced Warfare may freeze randomly when run in Quad CrossFire mode
[424168] Text corruption observed when using Windows 10 Mapp application
[424222] System may hang when installing the driver on a Windows 10 system with 2 or more GPUs
[424710] "Device being used by another application" error is displayed when attempting audio playback on Windows 7 systems

[blueleader2-PG-]

Huntor,

Could Wind's problem be the switchable graphics HP uses on laptops with Intel/AMD configuration? It was a problem with upgrades to 8/8.1 when, rather than go back to win 7, laptop gamers were looking for and using modded drivers to recapture full use of their AMD GPUs. I haven't seen it, but I understand that in the newest version of the Catalyst software, for Win 10, the switchable feature is not there, completely gone. However, the laptop's GPU hardware still requires it to function properly. Neither AMD nor HP has stepped up to the plate to apply a fix. Again, the only option appears to be modded drivers if you wish to hold on to Win 10. I think the only laptops not affected by the Intel/AMD issues are Sony and Toshiba.

Just a thought.

blue

[BLAZIN GUNS-PG-]

As huntor said you should be able to click on the game icon and select which card you want it to use.. yep you hit the nail on the head Blue its the switchable feature