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bootcamp 6 drivers for MBP mid-late 2011?

I upgraded to windows 10 a few weeks ago and installed the latest windows 8.1 drivers and everything seems to be running quite smoothly. Was able to do a workaround install for my amd radeon hd6700M graphics card driver to install the latest driver (15.20). My question is with the recent bootcamp update for mac models only after 2012 is there any way to get a manual download of the drivers for older models? or will they be available for older models soon? I see no reason for them not to, plenty of 2010-2011 macbook pro models are very capable of running windows 10. Has anyone found a work around for this? or know of an ETA that apple might provide the drivers for the olders models? I must also add I have updated my yosemite to the latest 10.10.5 and that my bootcamp assistant app (in osx) doesnt work because I tried to alter the info file and it fails to open (so i installed windows 8 manually by creating me own bootcamp partition and manually installing the drivers). Any help would be nice....

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), windows 10 installed via bootcamp

Posted on Aug 14, 2015 2:29 AM

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Posted on Aug 14, 2015 2:57 AM

Officially, the W10-supported Macs are listed in Use Windows 10 on your Mac with Boot Camp - Apple Support . Any other Mac requires the users to 'build' their own concoction of drivers specific to their hardware. Apple is now pushing BCA (or Apple Software Update on the Windows side) as the official vehicle to get drivers.


For example, System requirements to install Windows on your Mac using Boot Camp - Apple Support, no longer has the manual download links for BC drivers.


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I must also add I have updated my yosemite to the latest 10.10.5 and that my bootcamp assistant app (in osx) doesnt work because I tried to alter the info file and it fails to open (so i installed windows 8 manually by creating me own bootcamp partition and manually installing the drivers). Any help would be nice....

Your codesign command needs to include --deep qualifier. Please also see Bootcamp keeps crashing .

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Aug 14, 2015 2:57 AM in response to legauch3

Officially, the W10-supported Macs are listed in Use Windows 10 on your Mac with Boot Camp - Apple Support . Any other Mac requires the users to 'build' their own concoction of drivers specific to their hardware. Apple is now pushing BCA (or Apple Software Update on the Windows side) as the official vehicle to get drivers.


For example, System requirements to install Windows on your Mac using Boot Camp - Apple Support, no longer has the manual download links for BC drivers.


legauch3 wrote:


I must also add I have updated my yosemite to the latest 10.10.5 and that my bootcamp assistant app (in osx) doesnt work because I tried to alter the info file and it fails to open (so i installed windows 8 manually by creating me own bootcamp partition and manually installing the drivers). Any help would be nice....

Your codesign command needs to include --deep qualifier. Please also see Bootcamp keeps crashing .

Aug 14, 2015 3:09 AM in response to legauch3

Do not expect Apple to add older models to the W10 qualification list. This is effectively Apple's way of saying go buy a new Mac if you want a certified W10 solution. Planned obsolescence and all that is now an inherent part of keeping revenue streams at corporations alive. I keep my old Macs up and running on the last supported versions.

Aug 14, 2015 3:16 AM in response to Loner T

Thankyou for your help, one more question. My graphics card is the amd readeon hd6700m. And the latest driver states this it is not intended for Bootcamp users. I was able to install it anyway by manually selecting it in driver manual and it seemed to install ok. Does this driver actually work when installed this way? Everything points towards it being fine... just wondered if u knew anything on the topic....

Aug 19, 2015 12:00 PM in response to legauch3

Hello,


I've been trying to get Win10 to load correctly on my MBP (Late 2011) and every single time I get Windows installed my sound card doesn't work.
I just get "no audio device is detected" and there's a driver under "system" drivers with an yellow exclamation point stating "cannot be started"..

Sound always works fine on OSX side.


Model Name: MacBook Pro

Model Identifier: MacBookPro8,1

Processor Name: Intel Core i7

Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz

Number of Processors: 1

Total Number of Cores: 2

L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

L3 Cache: 4 MB

Memory: 4 GB

Boot ROM Version: MBP81.0047.B2A


What Boot Camp Package do you install for your Mac?


THANK YOU


I've also been wondering if this is my problem.

Aug 22, 2015 5:36 AM in response to Loner T

I tried that driver in Win 8.1 and got a black screen while installing. Actually I have had no luck getting beyond the default MS video driver with my late 2011 Macbook Pro 17" I will probably end up having to reinstall Win as BCD (device not attached to system nightmare) problems are preventing any method of booting into Safe Mode Since the OSX side of things seems OK even with Photoshop I'm not sure this is from the Radeon HD 6750M going belly up

Aug 22, 2015 10:26 AM in response to Loner T

Thanks but I'm having the opposite problem. Generic drivers for Win 8, 8.1, and 10 work fine. Loading any AMD Catalyst driver for the Radeon either gets black flagged for a problem in Windows or worse, results in a black screen and I have to try to uninstall the driver I would just stay with the MS driver but I need the additional video output using the Thunderbolt port. The generic driver only supports 1 display it seems.

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