AMD Sets DX9 Radeons Out To Pasture
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Written by Chris Tom   
Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:42
Fudo reports that AMD has set their DirectX 9 graphics chips out to pasture with a legacy drive Catalyst version 9.8. You can find it here. This means Windows 7 is not officially supported on these cards, but they will work with the Vista driver.

Note: AMD’s DirectX 9 ATI Radeon graphics accelerators are not officially supported under Windows 7. If the user chooses to, they can install the ATI Catalyst Windows Vista graphics driver under Windows 7. Please be aware that none of the new Windows 7 graphics driver (WDDM 1.1) features are supported (as the Windows Vista level graphics driver is limited to WDDM 1.0 level support). Using the ATI Catalyst Windows Vista driver under Windows 7 is not officially supported by AMD, and as such AMD will not provide any form of customer support for users running in this configuration

WDDM 1.1 includes virtualized video memory, scheduling, cross process sharing of Direct3D surfaces, and enhanced fault tolerance. WDDM 1.0 will not support multi monitor if the graphics cards use different drivers. In other words if one is a Radeon, and one is a GeForce. Thanks to Wikipedia for this info.