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Amd adrenalin 8.1 32 bit hack11/11/2023 Vega), and is focused on CPUs and semi-custom designs. nVidia is worth quite a bit more than AMD and they're focused on graphics, whereas AMD is roaring back from flirting with bankruptcy and Raja's Folly (a.k.a. Now, you may say "Well nVidia is still supporting Windows 8.1!", which is true, but nVidia has the extra resources to spend tweaking their Windows 7 drivers for Windows 8.1, and starting with the RTX 2000/GTX 1600 series, only Windows 7 and 10 are supported. They're in such a disarray that the head of Radeon Software Development admitted that he didn't even knows about major issues customers were reporting on every forum and social media outlet there was. It's been in chaos for years, reflected in the lack of attention they give to anything but the most current generation of cards, customer feedback and suggestions, and the quality of driver updates which were released, namely the still-not-completely-eliminated Navi black screen issue. It also must be said that Radeon Technologies Group is in dire need of a complete reorganization. Also according to Steam, which is a decent cross section of the gaming class, only 2.15% of those users use Windows 8.1. You also have to realize that AMD's overall user share is incredibly low, lower than I've seen it since the dark ages of the X1000-HD 3000 series years, 13.38% according to Steam. Couple that with the facts that AMD's user share is incredibly low, and the number of games requiring Windows 10 as an OS are increasing, and you can see AMD's reasoning behind terminating Windows 8.1 support years ago. While this translates into perhaps tens of thousands of devices globally, the number of those devices which are gaming computers to such an extent as to require new drivers to support new games is only a fraction of that. Because Windows 7 has 21.21% (or 30.38%) of the Windows market share, while Windows 8.1 has 4.63% (or 3.84%) depending on which source you use.
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