There appears to be some conflicting information about when drivers will be released and what devices are going to be supported. There were rumors that AMD was going to drop support for cards older than the RadeonHD 5000, while AMD refuted that saying they were going to release quarterly updates for those devices. There was also talk that they were going to do an as-needed release schedule.
However, after looking at the AMD Catalyst™ 12.6 Beta Driver (
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst126beta.aspx ), it appears the initial rumors could have been correct after all, meaning if you have a card from just a couple years ago, you could be out of luck, and those of us with AGP devices (yes these are still being sold) are definitely out of luck. For Windows users this may not be that big of an issue, but for Linux users, this could be a disaster. And yes, I did actually install that driver to test it and my card (RadeonHD 3450 AGP) was not supported. I realize there's the need to drop support for older devices, but some of the devices being dropped are currently still being sold or were only sold a couple (less than 5) years ago. I don't know how many of you this will effect, but I can't see this having a positive impact on the PS community.
