As the title says, I am looking for drivers for the Radeon R5-240. I have Windows Xp-x32.
Just looking to play with some old games on my Optiplex 360.
Thank You
GCN 2nd gen? Afaik no XP drivers exist for those. You're one gen too late. Try GCN1 (and from my experience even those are hit and miss) or older.
Oh well. So much for that idea.. Thank ya
fastvan wrote on 2024-05-09, 00:07:Oh well. So much for that idea.. Thank ya
Don't give up so easily. This might work. It supposedly supports some (or at least one) GCN 2nd gen variant... IF you'rs isn't detected, try force-installing it through device manager.
(Decommissioned:)
I've spent way too much time trying to get a GCN2-based iGPU (a Radeon HD 8280E) to work. Dug up three different driver packages that claimed to support it, advertised as anything from "for evaluation, not officially supported" to "trust me bro this one works". All of them would install fine... but then just blackscreen, which matched other people's reports. I couldn't find a single (non-anecdotal) success story. But maybe OP'll have more luck. If so, please let me know.
What is the BIG difference between the R5 240 and the R7 240?
According to wikipedia, only the memory bus width. The latter has drivers for XP, you can download them from AMD.
The R5 was an OEM card, so I guess AMD did not bother at that time with XP drivers. The card came out in 2013, so no sensible OEM would ship a computer with XP.
Now I have a pair of these OEM cards, so I took my chances: got the driver for the R7, modified the ini to contain the PCI ids for the R5, and installed it.
It worked just fine, I did not do a very extensive testing though.
I like these cards, because they are very compatible. You can use them with XP (at least you certainly can the R7), or even windows 10 or linux. Mine has a DP and a DVI output. The DVI also has the analog pins, so you can even use a VGA monitor on it.
And you can still buy the R7 brand new. It is not cheap, especially for what it does, but you can buy it.