And I just don't see how it makes sense to be happy about something being moved to legacy just for the sake of it

AMD is a sinking ship. Every product they have to support costs the company money. Discontinuing support for a product means saving money.

Nvidia has better/longer lasting driver support...I need to upgrade to nvidia now before amd drop support for mine.

There's no reason for NVidia not to support GT200 and newer cards. Even Maxwell has roots in the older Tesla (GT200) architecture. NVidia has just done an amazing job at improving the architecture over the years.

The HD 2000-4000 series and 5000-6000 series also had a similiar architecture though. Many were surprised about the DX10 VLIW cards being dropped since they were so similar to the DX11 VLIW cards. I get what you're saying, but AMD's history gives reason for doubt.

HD2000 - HD5000 were all VLIW5 based architectures. HD6870 and lower were VLIW5 while HD6950 and HD6970 were VLIW4. VLIW4 drivers wouldn't work properly on VLIW5 based architectures and vise versa.

As long as there will be legacy drivers for OSs back to at least win7 I'm okay with it, still want to use my passive 5770 as a basic graphics adapter for secondary computers.

No surprises here. I kind of expected it to happen sooner. I don't think there have been any fixes for any games for these old cards in forever. So why put them in to a whql package.

Its crap when this happens. i remember with my 4870x2 i was waiting for many bugfixes then it got into legacy and it got even more bugs. 🙁

The 6900 series were available in most computer stores in North America by the end of 2010. AMD supported the cards for over 4 years, plenty of time, perhaps a bit too much. It would have been reasonable if they stopped support after 3 years for many reasons. Not much point in updating drivers to be slightly optimized for modern games if they can barely run properly even then due to the increased processing requirements.

I agree that AMD needed to end support for those older cards because they havent gotten any improvements in years. While driver support for legacy cards under new versions of Windows is great but it has to end sometime.

About time really these cards are getting real old, ancient in the IT industry yeah my APU will no longer be supported but hey most modern and upcoming games are requiring 2GB as minimum Vram they have had their spotlight now it's time to move on.

I was able to get a Crimson beta for my HD6970, 6950 and HD5870 (laptop). Legacy or no they are still capable and I've never liked the Catalyst suite much. If nothing else it will be nice to have a friendlier interface.

So,officially i have a legacy card now.But it is the same way with all hardware, at some point every new, shiny computer part will become obsolete.