When you buy an expensive piece of technology, you want to know that it’ll have support from the manufacturer for a long time. That goes double for graphics cards and similar tech, where the latest games might need driver tweaks. That’s why the latest AMD Adrenalin release is dismaying for owners of cards and laptops just a few years old: a lot of them just got left in the dust.
New Game Support is spelled out for “Radeon RX 7000 and 9000 series graphics products” in the release notes …leaving Radeon RX 6000 and 5000 cards, the newest of which were released just two to three years ago , with only “maintenance mode” support. This is a line that hasn’t been included in other update text posts, so the conspicuous absence of older cards was immediately jarring to many users. AMD has since

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