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Retina 5K - AMD Boot Camp Driver failure

I would like to begin a discussion of the Boot Camp Drivers for the AMD video card in the stock Retina 5K iMac. There is a thread that demonstrates what appears to be a successful install of the drivers, and a thread that demonstrates a non-successful install.


A non-sucessful install looks like this:

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The drivers tab indicates that driver version 14.200.1002.1002 is installed.


This is the stock Boot camp driver install. The latest beta Catalyst drivers from the AMD website will also return the same results.


I have had conversations with Apple support and it seems there is no official support for Boot Camp after install. They have no useful information beyond blaming Microsoft and/or AMD and acknowledging that there are threads at Apple communities that confirm people are having this issue.


For those of you with the Retina 5K, can you get the AMD Boot Camp drivers to function? If so, what did you do to make it work?

Can you list your specific hardware load out?


I am not concerned about true 5K support in Windows, that is not the issue at this point. The issue is that the AMD Boot Camp drivers will install, but Windows refuses to load them and returns a 'code 43' error.


Retina 5K - 3.5GHz i5, 8GB ram, AMD Radeon R9 M290X 2048MB

iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Nov 16, 2014 11:07 AM

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Dec 30, 2016 2:40 PM in response to skorolev

It's me, I'm back. Remember?

Well, now my machine is on Sierra and things may be different. I'm going to give this a try again.


Re-reading this I remember quite a few of the problems and it made me wonder why I didn't just buy a bunch of lottery tickets and win a windows machine just for gaming because the headaches in getting this going should be long fixed.


The whole idiocy of AMD marketing renaming the 7800 Pro graphics card to the M290X when it was the same hardware is part of the problem, the other issue was none of the drivers for the keyboard and mouse worked so I had to use 3 of the 4 USB ports just for wired keyboard, wired mouse, wired DVD drive and attempt install. Then the GPT versus MFM issue. Too much stupid idiocy involved!


I'm going to give this a try again. More when I get back to this.

Retina 5K - AMD Boot Camp Driver failure

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