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Anonymous
12 years ago

iMac Bootcamp drivers

 im on an imac running bootcamp and i just bought battlefield 4 today. once i had conquered wave after wave of unncecessary web based tomfoolery to actually get into the game, i was met with and error saying i needed to update some drivers that would seems to be completely unobtainale. is there anyone with the know how to soothe my issues or maybe has the same problem and can help me? because otherwise thats 60 dollars down the drain unless i buy a dedicated gaming pc

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  • Apple likes to make "Mac versions" of all hardware, including the graphics cards. Since AMD and Nvidia don't create drivers specific to Bootcamp Windows I would imagine that you are stuck with whatever drivers Apple have created. I would also imagine that apple don't update their drivers that well or that often towards Windows games.

    Now someone has messed around with modifying the drivers, but that's kinda Mac territory which I'm not familiar with. This link might help:

    https://discussions.apple.com/message/23680450?tstart=0#23680450?tstart=0

    otherwise I would suggest searching for others with similar problems.

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    Anonymous
    12 years ago
    I too play Battlefield 4 on an iMac and it runs great...aside from all the DirectX errors I've been getting in Campaign. But I'm pretty positive it's a client patch problem and hopefully they will fix that in this century...

    Anyway, what's your iMac specs? This may depend on how new your iMac model is. But, the driver I need to use for my Late 2011 iMac is the AMD Catalyst Mobility driver:
    http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-catalyst-windows-beta.aspx

    But first, before you install, you have to delete the Bootcamp drivers before installing. If you're in Windows 7 (I'm sorry I'm unfamiliar with Windows 8). You right click on Computer > Properites > Device Manager > Display Drivers > Right click on the current display driver and Uninstall. You're screen may reset back to VGA with a very low resolution. But when you install the new one it should refresh after a good old Restart.

    Hope this helps.

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