But for me the bad far outweighs the good for a home purchasing decision. Yes their OS is great, and yes it is more trouble free IMHO than the MS side. I would say that the realization, I already had with Apple long ago, (and as a graphic artist I have use a mac every day since their inception) is that for home use I can't even justify an iMac anymore. I'm not sure it's worth a potential battle with the richest company on earth though. It is a shame that if AMD could do something more, without it being a big financial burden, that they don't do more, like their direct competition has. Wow pretty great information! Pretty much what I guessed was going on behind the scenes! I had read that nvidia started releasing their own out of frustration with apple. In an ideal world I would shut my web site down as we are not supposed to be modifying the drivers provided by AMD, but what other choice do I have given that the state of drivers in Windows is so utterly abysmal?Īpple are definitely to blame for a lot of this, though I honestly feel that AMD do not do enough testing before sending the drivers over to Apple because the drivers that are provided for use in Windows often do not 'cut the mustard' i'm afraid to say. Going forward from that I thought I'd share the drivers with everyone else and hence is born. inf file to more closely match the PC drivers with the Apple software device settings applied. I get horrendous stuttering in all games for every driver ever released and I was able to fix this myself by simply modifying the. For my own iMac with the M295X, the last driver update released before November was way back in 2014. sys file?Īpple's policy on this appears to be 'Well so long as it powers the display in Windows then that is where our support ends'. Would it be possible for AMD to bake some better support into the official PC drivers in the actual display driver. inf file for 17.11.1 does actually provide a huge fps performance boost for gaming but then things like DX12 and OpenCL do not work as intended, so this really isn't a long-term viable option. Furthermore, forcing Windows to update via the. Interestingly external displays still work but the internal display's resolution is recognized as '0x0'. Mapping the Apple software device settings into any newer versions of the driver (released on the PC side) typically causes the display to simply go black. Many games run with fps in single figures which is crazy for a such a capable GPU. The Bootcamp drivers provided for iMac Pro through Bootcamp Assistant is version 17.7 and appears to be only sufficient for actually powering the display. I'd like to clarify the situation further if I may. Good luck! I hope you get this going, pretty crappy to have a such a nice machine having a single OS restriction.Īppreciate you forwarding the feedback Matt. My apologies in advance if this turns out not to be the case. However I am pretty sure the ball is in Apples court on this one. I know a similar question to this was already asked and I think there was a bit of apparent finger pointing going on between Apple and AMD. I would definitely ask this question to Apple. This isn't to say that in some cases that those types of drivers have not also worked on Apples original equipment. The only exceptions to this I know of are for aftermarket cards that replace the original Apple equipment, then the card maker supplies the driver. Apple keeps a tight leash and virtually total control on their ecosystem. In the past the only AMD or NVidia drivers for that fact available for Mac or Windows on a Mac Via Bootcamp have been supplied by Apple. I couldn't tell you if a Windows version of the drivers exists or not. To my knowledge the new vega solution from the new iMac pros is proprietary to apple. It's very likely that this is not a fault of AMD at all.
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