How to fix OpenGL on Windows 8 for AMD’s

[javajolt]

The AMD Catalyst Drivers for Windows 8 Consumer Preview are broken when it comes to 64-bit OpenGL; they’re missing a registry entry critical to its functionality. and today (Long Zheng) from (withinwindows) find a wonderful solution for this problem.and he said:

Whenever an application (like Minecraft using Java 64-bit) requests OpenGL access, AMD’s atig6pxx.dll kicks in. It then peeks inside
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0000 and loads the OpenGL component as specified by OpenGLVendorName (64-bit) or OpenGLVendorNameWow (32-bit).
 
While the bits are there, the 64-bit registry entry is missing completely. But wait, you can add it yourself, though! No reboot needed.
 

[DMHolt57]

Is there a dl link to get the .reg file?

http://www.withinwindows.com/files/uploads/2012/03/ati_w8_opengl_64bit.reg

[javajolt]

The solution is quite simple. In my case (Double ATI radeon HD 5700 + Windows 8 CP), I am download two different drivers from AMD Support & Drivers page: 1. - Catalyst Software Suite 12.2 for Win 7 64 2. - Catalyst Driver 8.93.7 RC10 for win 8 CP. I run first package and use it for uninstall previous version of Catalyst Software. Then instal the same package (12.2). After that, I am just overwrite with secund 8.93.7 drivers, and - voila - everything works just fine.
 

Saw this on one of the many forums I look around, and thought it might help some of our members.

I have NOT come across a dl link to get the .reg file yet!