iMac 5k AMD Radeon R9 M290X no drivers yet for windows 10?

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iMac 5k AMD Radeon R9 M290X no drivers yet for windows 10?

Has anyone found any drivers for the AMD Radeon R9 M290X? Or will I probably have to wait till Apple get bootcamp support for windows 10?

iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)

Posted on Jul 30, 2015 7:37 PM

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Duke748

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Jul 31, 2015 1:14 AM in response to Ryannn23

Going on past performance, expect to see support in 3-6 months time, perhaps when El Capitain is released ( which could be as far back as December )

Saying that, they haven't bothered to keep parity with the official AMD drivers for nearly 8 months now so who knows.

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vfadool

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Aug 2, 2015 9:20 AM in response to Ryannn23

I still installed W10 on my 5K with Bootcamp. Looks great, the missing AMD driver doesn't upset anything from an install perspective. Windows 10 uses the Windows basic display driver, 4066mb memory, 3840x2160 true color 32 bit, 64 hertz adaptor, using a generic pop monitor. The display looks great.

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Ryannn23 Author

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Aug 2, 2015 10:09 AM in response to vfadool

Yeah that's the same for me, there's nothing wrong with the display driver, but it just means that it's relying on the intel graphics rather than using the AMD graphics card.

I guess it's just a waiting game for AMD and Apple to get their game together, what I don't understand is why Apple doesn't offer a new version of Bootcamp when W10 released. This makes it a very unpleasant experience as an Apple user

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Aug 10, 2015 3:56 AM in response to Ryannn23

I've found the latest AMD beta drivers work for Boot Camp - although windows now thinks I have an AMD R9 200 video card. I did notice a significant decrease in GPU capability using the Windows Basic Display driver when playing GTA V - I would assume anything graphics intensive would suffer likewise.

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Aug 10, 2015 4:21 AM in response to Ryannn23

SOLVED - Anyone has 5k iMac and suffers driver issues in windows 10 gotta see this

I have successfully got my m295x working on windows 10, you may want to have a shot.

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Ryannn23 Author

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Aug 13, 2015 3:54 AM in response to 12bravo83

Bootcamp 6.0 has been released so hopefully that installed correctly will work magic 🙂

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Loner T

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Aug 13, 2015 5:03 AM in response to Ryannn23

Do not confuse BC Assistant versions with BC Driver versions. Please see System requirements to install Windows on your Mac using Boot Camp - Apple Support .

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Aug 13, 2015 5:17 AM in response to Loner T

shut up nerd, always fking around with **** theory ****

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Loner T

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Aug 13, 2015 5:52 AM in response to Earth2004

You are hanging around with nerds. 😁

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alexm4d1

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Sep 18, 2015 1:37 PM in response to Ryannn23

The AMD Drivers last versions (15.7.1 and 15.8 beta) for iMac 5k on Windows 10 64 bits still does not work, tested today. Also bootcamp 6 AMD drivers are not working. Anyone have this working fine?. How to solve this issue? Who is in charge to fix this problem?. Many people are affected with this problem. Please help!. Attached an Image about it.

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