Hi,
sorry if this has been asked before.

I'm wondering about Ryzen/vega compatibility with older titles. I'm remembering that there are more driver issues compared to Nvidia cards, but does someone have first hand information on this?

Kind regards,
J

The Ryzen is such a recent CPU that it makes no difference in terms of game compatibility. That is to say, it supports all the latest ISA extensions (that no game requires today). Also x86 & x86-64 CPUs are as backwards compatible as it gets. I believe you should be able to boot DOS.

I've no first hand experience with Vega but AMD RX 480 has worked great for me.

The historic problems for AMD/ Radeon going back to ATi have been with OpenGL, which is now (technically) deprecated tech anyway. That would be games like KOTOR etc and there are workarounds. Laptop APUs are not as well supported as desktop ones and are often gimped by s l o w single channel RAM, but do at least now have AMD released drivers rather than relying on vendor ones now.

AMD drivers have- generally- been better than nVidia ones for a few years, have far less datamining and don't have a UI which looks 15 years old.