Newer AMD Radeon HD 8250 driver for Aspire V5-122P

timeisaparallax

I'm a graphics programmer who bought this product excited to jump into some modern OpenGL with it when travelling. What I hadn't realized at the time is that the OEM, in this case Acer, is responsible for updating the graphics driver. It seems that 12.102.1.1000 is slightly old (OpenGL 4.2). As I'm aware, all of the desktop cards with a GCN architecture have been updated to OpenGL 4.4. I'd be happy with 4.3 since that is the version I'm most interested in.

 

Is there any way to update to a newer fully functional Catalyst driver? Do I really need a driver from Acer or are drivers from AMD just 'not guaranteed'?

finlux

Hi timeisaparallax!

 

You can use the latest AMD driver - you do not have to use Acer approved. As you suggest, the driver (other than the Acer one) is "Not Guaranteed". It will still work OK.