AMD Radeon HD 6750M on my MacBookPro8,3 (early 2011)

Hi, the drivers are showing out of date for the AMD Radeon HD 6750M Graphics adapter in my MacBookPro8,3 (early 2011).
When running the new and impressive looking EA Battlefied 3 in Bootcamp, it repeatedly reports each and everytime when it is first run that my Graphics adapter/card/GPU etc drivers are currently very old at 11.1 where'as version 11.9 is currently available. Searching on the internet reveals that versions 11.10 are in existence and there's even occassional reference to 11.11 on some sites.
The Battlefield 3 game does surprising still run and the graphics (when not moving) are something to behold on the beauty of a Mac, however it does unfortunately lag with the frame rate suffering. Its not so much of a case with having to tweak/adjust the graphics options as there isnt much difference from low to high, nor low res to full 1920x1200 res. However it is mentioned on some websites that the driver versions around 11.9 (11.8 to 11.10 I think) apparently address issues and improve frame-rate with Battlefield 3 and other Apps/Games.
Will Apple be likely to help many of us by releasing a Graphics driver update very soon for the AMD Radeon HD 6750M - for Bootcamp Win 7 x64 as well as OS X Lion?
Or is it even possible to install and incorporate the latest AMD Catalyst 11.10 driver software for my MacBookPro8,3 under Bootcamp?
Or are many of us regrettably stuck! (until Apple release an update of coarse)

Post copied from previous discussion thread https://discussions.apple.com/message/17117482#17117482
This may be an old post, but for those still looking for an answer you can get the 13.12 (December 2013) AMD graphics driver from https://www.dropbox.com/sh/915fpdtgbgoksct/kOY7bKHgKq Select "Download->Download as .zip".
I only modded the driver for the windows 7 64-bit install, so if you using windows 8 under bootcamp you'll have to follow the included instructions yourself.
Please let me know/like this post if this works for you. (It would be great if you could report whether it worked based on using Win 7 or Win 8)

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