Unable to upgrade macbook pro 15 inch early 2011 AMD drivers

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Unable to upgrade macbook pro 15 inch early 2011 AMD drivers

Hi im having an issue, I recently purchased Battlefield 3 and I am getting an error telling me that I need to upgrade to the 11.7 driver, I go to AMD's website and tried to find my driver with no luck, I went to their page on finding the right drivers, I select MAC graphics, Mac Bootcamp, Macbook pro, Windows 7 64 bit, and install them and I still get the same error and when I open Catlyst it still says I have the 11.1 driver, I go into device manager and select my card ( an AMD Radeon HD 6490M) and select it , click the driver tab and click update and it says its the latest one, what do I do?

Posted on Feb 23, 2013 8:28 PM

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Kappy

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Feb 23, 2013 8:33 PM in response to matt11768

If you are running Windows, then you need drivers for Windows, not the Mac. However, if you installed the Boot Camp drivers then you shouldn't need to do this.

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Feb 23, 2013 8:37 PM in response to Kappy

I forgot to mention this, I am on windows and am bootcamped, the problem is that the bootcomp dirvers installed are outdated and I dont know where to find the new ones

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Kappy

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Feb 23, 2013 8:42 PM in response to matt11768

Unless you upgrade OS X to Mountain Lion there are no new drivers. If you install AMD drivers for Windows, then you install Windows drivers, not drivers for the Mac.

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Feb 23, 2013 8:46 PM in response to Kappy

I know this but my problem is that I cant find the new drivers for windows

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Kappy

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Feb 23, 2013 8:48 PM in response to matt11768

Then ATI doesn't have any newer drivers for Windows.

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Apr 9, 2014 11:18 AM in response to matt11768

Post copied from previous discussion thread https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3604048

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This may be an old post, but for those still looking for an answer you can get the 13.12 (December 2013) AMD graphics driver from https://www.dropbox.com/sh/915fpdtgbgoksct/kOY7bKHgKq Select "Download->Download as .zip".

I only modded the driver for the windows 7 64-bit install, so if you using windows 8 under bootcamp you'll have to follow the included instructions yourself.

Please let me know/like this post if this works for you. (It would be great if you could report whether it worked based on using Win 7 or Win 8)

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