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Michael88 Author

Level 1

11 points

Graphics Switching in Windows 7 - Macbook Pro 2011

Hi. I recently bought one of the new 15" macbook pros with the AMD Radeon 6750 M. In OS X it works fine and the battery life is what is should be but in windows it is significantly less. My guess it that like the 2010 macbooks running on Nvidia, in Windows graphics switching does not happen and the laptop just runs on the dedicated graphics card. How can I make it switch?

I was thinking of going and downloading the drivers for the graphics card fron the AMD website but I don't know if they will conflict with the ones already installed by Bootcamp. If the AMD card supports graphics switching on PCs from other manufacturers why would it not work in Windows on a Mac? I know on OS X the graphics switching was done by Apple separately but why should this interfere. Please advise.

Macbook Pro 15" 2011, Windows 7

Posted on Mar 3, 2011 7:16 PM

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NikitaK

Level 1

19 points

Nov 22, 2016 9:04 AM in response to Michael88

Finaly I needed Win very much and decided to give it a try.

Windows 10 has the same behaviour(( It uses NVidea card and battery can work only for about 2-3 hours.

The only solution for me became Paralles virtual machine. It has no problem with the card and not so terrible for the battery...in some points it is even more convinient than Boot Camp.

Graphics Switching in Windows 7 - Macbook Pro 2011

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