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Q: How do I get bootcamp 6.1 / AMD 15.201.2001.0 drivers

I'm running an iMac 5k with a AMD 295.

I previously had the latest AMD drivers installed from October

AMD Radeon R9 M295

Driver version: 15.201.2001.0

Driver date: 10/5/2015

 

But then I experimented with other drivers and now I can't get Apple Update to send me it's latest drivers again. I've tried uninstall the drivers, I've reinstalling apple update, etc etc. I've tried using bootcamp assistant but it keeps giving me the older drivers from August.

 

Perhaps apple stored the previous driver in a directory I don't know about or maybe someone happens to have the drivers somewhere on their system that I can use? Please don't tell me to reinstall windows.

 

Thanks!

iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Dec 12, 2015 2:09 AM

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Q: How do I get bootcamp 6.1 / AMD 15.201.2001.0 drivers

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  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Dec 12, 2015 6:11 AM in response to anaoshak
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    Dec 12, 2015 6:11 AM in response to anaoshak

    Did you create Windows System Restore point prior to your driver experiments?

  • by anaoshak,

    anaoshak anaoshak Dec 12, 2015 6:17 AM in response to Loner T
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    Dec 12, 2015 6:17 AM in response to Loner T

    Hi Loner, bootcamp guru.

     

    Of course I didn't do a restore point.

     

    But seriously, uninstalling a driver, and not being to reinstall it... There's gotta be a solution to this that doesn't involve reinstalling bootcamp, which I gotta say is already finicking in regards to the fusion drive. I didn't do anything stupid. It's quite logical. Swapping and see what driver works best for optimization is process to see what works with what I'm trying to do.

     

    I really wish apple and AMD could work together on validating these drivers. Oh I miss the old bootcamp on my 2011 laptop. So simple. AMD releases a drive, I can install the ones used on non-macs. No fusion drive mess. Quite dependable. Oh well.

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Dec 12, 2015 7:53 AM in response to anaoshak
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    Dec 12, 2015 7:53 AM in response to anaoshak

    Can you use https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730875.aspx and remove all AMD drivers from the driver store and then use BC Assistant to download the appropriate driver?

  • by anaoshak,

    anaoshak anaoshak Dec 12, 2015 4:28 PM in response to Loner T
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    Dec 12, 2015 4:28 PM in response to Loner T

    I followed the steps. I did apple update after that and nothing showed up. So I installed bootcamp drivers via USB and it still shows 7/15/2015 as the driver date. Driver version 15.200.1060.0. I did the apple update after that and still nothing shows up.

     

    Also I did restarts between these steps too.

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Dec 12, 2015 4:34 PM in response to anaoshak
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    Dec 12, 2015 4:34 PM in response to anaoshak

    Can you check Bootcamp.xml for the version noted for the AMD drivers?

  • by anaoshak,

    anaoshak anaoshak Dec 12, 2015 4:48 PM in response to Loner T
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    Dec 12, 2015 4:48 PM in response to Loner T

    <Name> "Advanced Micro Devices, Inc." Display Driver

      <InfName>C0186304.inf</InfName>

      <Class>Display</Class>

      <ClassGUID>{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}</ClassGUID>

      <CatalogFile>C0186304.CAT</CatalogFile>

      <Provider> "Advanced Micro Devices, Inc."</Provider>

      <DriverVer>07/15/2015, 15.200.1060.0000</DriverVer>

      <ServiceBinary>atikmdag.sys</ServiceBinary>

      <HardwareID></HardwareID>

      <isX64>yes</isX64>

     

     

     

    Bootcamp info

    <BuildInfo BuildNumber="6133" ProductName="Boot Camp">

      <MsiInfo>

      <ProductManufacturer>Apple Inc.</ProductManufacturer>

      <ProductVersion>6.0.6133</ProductVersion>

      <ProductCode>{FCFFE6B6-BAE8-490E-88D0-097A9DA1C43D}</ProductCode>

      <Component Name="AppleOSSMgr.exe" GUID="*" SharedDLL="yes">

      <File Name="AppleOSSMgr.exe">

      <KeyPath>yes</KeyPath>

      <FileVersion>5.1.5.0</FileVersion>

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Dec 12, 2015 5:04 PM in response to anaoshak
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    Dec 12, 2015 5:04 PM in response to anaoshak

    From

      <ProductManufacturer>Apple Inc.</ProductManufacturer>

      <ProductVersion>6.0.6237</ProductVersion>

    <ProductCode>{FCFFE6B6-BAE8-490E-88D0-097A9DA1C43D}</ProductCode>

    <Name> "Advanced Micro Devices, Inc." Display Driver

      <InfName>C0295241.inf</InfName>

      <Class>Display</Class>

      <ClassGUID>{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}</ClassGUID>

      <CatalogFile>C0295241.CAT</CatalogFile>

      <Provider> "Advanced Micro Devices, Inc."</Provider>

      <DriverVer>10/05/2015, 15.201.2001.0000</DriverVer>

      <ServiceBinary>atikmdag.sys</ServiceBinary>

      <HardwareID></HardwareID>

      <isX64>yes</isX64>

      </Name>

     

    Are you familiar with https://github.com/timsutton/brigadier ? This is valid for model iMac17,1 which is

     

    2015

      

    iMac
    iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, Late 2015)

    Model Identifier: iMac 16,2
    Number: MK452XX/A

    iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2015)

    Model Identifier: iMac16,1
    Number: MK142XX/A, MK442XX/A

    iMac
    iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015)

    Model Identifier: iMac17,1
    Number: MK462XX/A, MK472XX/A, MK482XX/A

    iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Mid 2015)

    Model Identifier: iMac15,1
    Number: M885XX/A

  • by anaoshak,

    anaoshak anaoshak Dec 12, 2015 5:30 PM in response to Loner T
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    Dec 12, 2015 5:30 PM in response to Loner T

    I'm familiar with github, but this is pretty advance.

     

    edit: Yikes, I'm pretty good with instructions but how they explain this just isn't clicking with me. I'll keep trying to figure this out tonight but I've sunk quite a large amount of time in this.

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Dec 12, 2015 6:24 PM in response to anaoshak
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    Dec 12, 2015 6:24 PM in response to anaoshak

    Can you download brigadier and run it as follows? Use -m iMac17,1 for your specific needs.

     

    MyName-rmbp:brigadier-master MyName$ ./brigadier -h

    Usage: brigadier [options]

     

    Options:

      -h, --help            show this help message and exit

      -m MODEL, --model=MODEL

                            System model identifier to use (otherwise this

                            machine's model is used). This can be specified

                            multiple times to download multiple models in a single

                            run.

      -i, --install         After the installer is downloaded, perform the install

                            automatically. Can be used on Windows only.

      -o OUTPUT_DIR, --output-dir=OUTPUT_DIR

                            Base path where the installer files will be extracted

                            into a folder named after the product, ie.

                            'BootCamp-041-1234'. Uses the current directory if

                            this option is omitted.

      -k, --keep-files      Keep the files that were downloaded/extracted. Useful

                            only with the '--install' option on Windows.

      -p PRODUCT_ID, --product-id=PRODUCT_ID

                            Specify an exact product ID to download (ie.

                            '031-0787'), currently useful only for cases where a

                            model has multiple BootCamp ESDs available and is not

                            downloading the desired version according to the post

                            date.

    MyName-rMBP:brigadier-master MyName$ ./brigadier -m MacBook8,1 -o Bootcamp-MacBook8,1

    Output directory Bootcamp-MacBook8,1 that was specified doesn't exist!

    MyName-rMBP:brigadier-master MyName$ mkdir Bootcamp-MacBook8.1

    MyName-rMBP:brigadier-master MyName$ ./brigadier -m MacBook8,1 -o Bootcamp-MacBook8.1

    Using Mac model: MacBook8,1.

     

    Model supported in package distribution file at http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/28/26/031-24514/qx7ph7k6mewtcf4eyhxmiil gc7r2ikjgud/031-24514.English.dist.

     

    Distribution 031-24514 supports the following models: MacBook8,1, MacBookAir5,1, MacBookAir5,2, MacBookAir6,1, MacBookAir6,2, MacBookAir7,1, MacBookAir7,2, MacBookPro9,1, MacBookPro9,2, MacBookPro11,1, MacBookPro11,2, MacBookPro11,3, MacBookPro11,4, MacBookPro11,5, MacBookPro12,1, MacPro6,1, Macmini6,1, Macmini6,2, Macmini7,1, iMac13,1, iMac13,2, iMac13,3, iMac14,1, iMac14,2, iMac14,3, iMac14,4, iMac15,1.

     

    Making directory Bootcamp-MacBook8.1/BootCamp-031-24514..

     

    Fetching Boot Camp product at URL http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/28/26/031-24514/qx7ph7k6mewtcf4eyhxmiil gc7r2ikjgud/BootCampESD.pkg.

     

    100.0% 1633591296 / 1633586781 bytes

    Expanding flat package...

     

    Extracting Payload...

     

    Extracted to Bootcamp-MacBook8.1/BootCamp-031-24514/WindowsSupport.dmg.

     

    Done.

     

    MyName-rMBP:brigadier-master MyName$ cd Bootcamp-MacBook8.1/

    MyName-rMBP:Bootcamp-MacBook8.1 MyName$ ls -lt

    total 0

    drwxr-xr-x  3 MyName  staff  102 Aug 13 11:57 BootCamp-031-24514

    MyName-rMBP:Bootcamp-MacBook8.1 MyName$ cd BootCamp-031-24514/

    MyName-rMBP:BootCamp-031-24514 MyName$ ls -lt

    total 3188544

    -rw-r--r--  1 MyName  staff  1632530665 Aug 12 00:59 WindowsSupport.dmg

    MyName-rMBP:BootCamp-031-24514 MyName$ pwd

    /Users/MyName/Documents/brigadier-master/Bootcamp-MacBook8.1/BootCamp-031-24514

    MyName-rMBP:BootCamp-031-24514 MyName$ ls

    WindowsSupport.dmg

    MyName-rMBP:BootCamp-031-24514 MyName$ openssl md5 WindowsSupport.dmg

    MD5(WindowsSupport.dmg)= a3d3e4f4a950fe6b47c4cb55f7cd7e02

  • by anaoshak,

    anaoshak anaoshak Dec 12, 2015 6:34 PM in response to Loner T
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    Dec 12, 2015 6:34 PM in response to Loner T

    My computer is iMac15,1. (late 2014)

     

    I downloaded the zip file from the github but there isn't anything executable. I found one exe (brigadier.exe) that links to http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/28/26/031-24514/qx7ph7k6mewtcf4eyhxmiil gc7r2ikjgud/BootCampESD.pkg . When I run the EXE it downloads from there, but then closes and does nothing. So I popped in the link inside my browser and I downloaded that PKG, used zip 7 or something to unpackage it. Then unpackage that unpackage, then unpackaged that until it revealed bootcamp drivers. Turn out out to be the exact same bootcamp drivers I have installed. No AMD drivers from October.

     

    Something is happening where when I run apple update after a fresh install, I get October drivers. Some how, the apple update is setup to ignore those drivers whenever you uninstall them and your stuck with either AMD's drivers from their site, or using older drivers provided from bootcamp assistant.

     

    edit: now I'm running the EXE as an Admin. Maybe this will do something...

     

    edit2: Nope. Same drivers.

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Dec 12, 2015 6:35 PM in response to anaoshak
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    Dec 12, 2015 6:35 PM in response to anaoshak

    This needs to be run on the OS X side and it is a python script. Please use -m iMac17,1 if you want the correct drivers. iMac15,1 will keep giving you what you already have and it is not very useful.

  • by anaoshak,

    anaoshak anaoshak Dec 12, 2015 6:44 PM in response to Loner T
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    Dec 12, 2015 6:44 PM in response to Loner T

    When I run brigadier (via Mac). It pops up a terminal and immediately does it's thing (downloads for iMac15,1). How can I give it the command you suggest?

     

    edit: basically, how do I run it with options?

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Dec 12, 2015 6:47 PM in response to anaoshak
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    Dec 12, 2015 6:47 PM in response to anaoshak

    The zip file needs to be extracted using a OS X Terminal. I have it unzipped in the Documents folder. There is a brigadier file which is a python script. Look at my example. brigadier-master is the directory under Documents where the scripts are located.

  • by anaoshak,

    anaoshak anaoshak Dec 12, 2015 6:57 PM in response to Loner T
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    Dec 12, 2015 6:57 PM in response to Loner T

    we're on to something. Turns out I put iMac17,1 with a period instead of a comma. You had it underlined so I couldn't see. Crosses fingers.

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