ATi AMD and crappy drivers. Name a more iconic duo!

Seriously, I root for AMD and want to use their products, especially because of the excellent Linux support. But they really need to get their driver issues ironed out.

I'd assume it's the kind of developer gaslighting that leads to deprecated APIs. If AMD doesn't fix this, this'll be a new vogons problem for OpenGL 2 games certainly for the future cards that can't have a pre-22.71 driver. At least one Steam game got bit by this.

As for a convenient link to the last pre-22.71 driver to hang onto (as they rot the links out of the previous driver list).....
https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-not … -rad-win-22-6-1 (Win1x)
https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-not … win-22-6-1-win7 (Win7)

Can the older atioglxx be swapped in or added to the game directory for temporary (or "permanent" use) until/if decides to fix based off of a submitted bug report?

Sadly neither slipping atioglxx.dll / atio6axx.dll in game dirs override the driver's ICD. I think a more probable stopgap would be a GL2->3/4/Vulkan wrapper

Give this a try with the zink driver:
https://github.com/pal1000/mesa-dist-win

Yeah it's a necro and AMD still hasn't fixed this in 2024. They've recently sunset driver support for some slightly older cards affected by this regression so I've given up hope on them fixing it now.