ATI 6750M issue in Boot Camp

I recently purchased a Mac Book Pro for gaming and work. (15" with 8GB ram, 2.3Ghz with the 1GB ATI 6750M)
I used Boot Camp to install Windows 7 for some of my windows related games. Unfortunately, games like WoW, and other steam games don't seem to take advantage of the ATI 6750M even though the drivers are installed.
I know WoW has a MAC client, but I was hoping to make my Windows install ... My "gaming" environment, where all my games lived.
WoW for example says I don't have a shader compatible card installed. The new FPS Brink seems to run at around 20 FPS.
Any suggestions?

No answers yet, but I saw an update come from Apple today on Boot Camp performance and the Turbo processor.
Maybe this will be taken care of.

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I have a MacPro 2.66, Radeon X1900 with a 23" Cinema HD Display.
The problem I'm running in to was the same one I first experienced when installing XP Pro. No video. There was a video signal to the 23" display, but I got nothing other than a black screen.
I found a solution to use a different monitor, as apparently there are some "issues" with Boot Camp and/or XP Pro and the 23" display.
The install of XP Pro went fine on a different (smaller) monitor. It's the post-install that is not working.
I got XP to boot up once or twice and all seemed to be fine.
Now, when I boot back up in to XP Pro, I get a video signal and can hear XP boot up (Nice cozy XP startup music), but I only get a black monitor screen. No video whatsoever. No posting, no nothing.
Granted, I have not done it yet, but I'm sure I can slap on the smaller tube and get XP to boot.
I'm suspecting a video driver issue with the Radeon X1900 and the 23" display, but was wondering if anyone else had experienced this problem and what the solution might be?
I'm probably going to have to wait to see if Boot Camp 1.2 fixes this issue....seeing how there is already an sata issue that needs to be addressed as well.
Any thoughts?
Michael

Well, I'm not sure what one should do if another display isn't available. But, I was lucky to have an old 17" Cinema to use instead of the 23" to install drivers with the X1900 card installed.
I went here...
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folder ID=293
... and downloaded their Catalyst Control Center, installed it, and went to "Advanced" to do display discovery. Then I did a full shutdown and restart.
The 23" works now. Though, as others have said, it's black until just before the XP desktop loads (as I assume the drivers load with the desktop).
Aside from it being a pain to get working on XP, the card screams (on both platforms)! There is a slight bit of fan noise which is pretty subtle and only seems to rev on startup/self-test but so far it's definitely worth it. I didn't think it'd be observable outside of 3D apps but with Mac OS GPU acceleration even Tiger seems faster!

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If you have had similar problem at the Washington Square store in Oregon, be sure to let them know by sending e-mail to [email protected], I know I will...
Eric

If you are going to send an e-mail you should send it to [email protected] However, nobody from Apple is going to send you a response. The Software is Beta which means it is not ready for Prime Time (Also that means that the drivers are beta too). Plus they say before you decide to install any of this in their write ups that they do not and will not provide any support for BootCamp and/or Windows. So they are right not to do anything if the computer works like it is supposed to under OS 10.4.6. Now they might take a look at somethings when OS 10.5 comes out if it has BootCamp in it. They may have something similiar in it, or it might be a perfected BootCamp. However, I doubt that they will ever provide any support for Windows. There has been some talk that Microsoft is looking into supporting Windows on the MAC. However, as far as I have heard no decision on that has come out as of yet.

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I wasn't sure where to put this, as it's actually a hardware issue, but it does directly relate to my software.
I use Windows for gaming and for college work that is windows only. The issue I have is that the graphics card doesn't seem to want to register. Everything looks blocky and pixelated. When windows starts up, and it does the loading screen with the flag and the "Windows is starting...", the flag might as well be a 256 color image. When I run games, some look okay, but not like they should. Elder Scrolls: Oblivion looks okay when you're outside, but the coloring looks off, and the objects look like they have serrated edges. It's bad... And I've seen it on a normal PC.
For a machine that has a really nice updated graphics card, this mac should run anything. I have two gigs of ram, an ATI Radeon HD 2600, and a nice display. Not to mention, this machine picks up at 2.4 Ghz on an intel core 2 duo. Why are all my applications looking like they belong on a Windows 95 machine? I tried to upgrade the drivers, but it tells me it can't find an ATI card. I look in the system preferences for the windows, and it shows I have an ATI Radeon XT 2600. I read that the card is the same as the HD, but still the updates don't see the card.
Not to mention I keep getting system crashes that deal with the hal.dll file. I know that this is the hardware file in the system folder, so it makes sense that the problem would be due to the graphics card. I've already had to reinstall the system twice, and this last time I did a system a repair and it lost the paths to all my files. So all the programs were there, but none of them would run. Also, now I don't have access to my mac drive anymore. It lets me view it, but no trading files between machines. I've checked sharing already. Looks fine.
Anyone know what's going on here? And yes, I know about the little pixelated dots that people talk about. I haven't had them... And I am using boot camp 2.0 with the latest drivers. Didn't help much.
Running Windows XP SP2, fully updated.
-Eric

Re installing windows works best if you erase and or format the disc first with disc utility in os x. I couldn't reinstall windows correctly and had simalar error untill I used macs disc utility first. I read your post all the way and I can't comment why the graphics are messed up though, sorry good luck

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Today I called Microsoft to tell me whether I was taking the right steps, but this guy couldn't help me either. "I should not install windows in a partition, but I should use parallels to install it under iOS..." ?
The iso I have is an original disk image of Windows 8.1 Pro NL, meant to make a clean install. So what am I doing wrong?

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I recently picked up the new MacBook Pro model to use as a mobile computer for audio production. I rely on low-latency and high-fidelity real-time audio processing for what I do, and unfortunately I have been having some sever issues with that.
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Yes if you want the Lag to go away. But from the other thread I read about this problem one person replace their original Mac with another and the lag was still there. It seems to be a hardware problem.
A question.
If everyone in the Audio field is using Mac computers why do you use a Windows Only Audio program.
I was visiting a friend in Colorado last year and we went to a music studio, he's a musician, and the owner was running Windows 7 on the studio computer. I think he was running Pro Tools.
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Actually, you must have Windows finish its installation before installing the Bootcamp Drivers. When you get in your desktop for the first time, go to: Start> My Computer> Select your Mac's DVD Drive. Look for an "eject" button in the Windows Explorer window.
You may also want to check the Bootcamp Installation guide for Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6), it comes handy in these situations:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Boot_Camp_Install-Setup_10.6.pdf
This is the one for Mac OS X Lion (10.7):
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.7.pdf
EDIT:
Added a video tutorial from CNET, but follow the Apple Provided installation guide:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dLcJmDIccc
This video is more up to date:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-CXTovYk3A&feature=related
Note that the tutorial says that Windows 7 is not compatible, this not longer the case after the release of Bootcamp 3.1.
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Issues with boot camp on iMac 5K

I'm trying to dual boot my iMac 5K with Windows 8. Initially, I used the windows media creation tool to set up my USB stick with the windows installation process. This was giving me an error relating to the partition format, can't remember the exact error though. So I torrented a copy of windows 8 (I have a valid activation key that I purchased). I used Boot Camp Assistant to create the Windows install USB stick, the support software, and the partition. When my computer restarts in to the Windows installation, I enter my activation key, select the software to install, and the bootcamp-created partition. The installer tells me that I can't install Windows on this partition, so I clicked the format button AND ran diskpart to format it to NTFS. This resulted in an error saying "we couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one." I've been reading through forums and trying things for the last six or so hours and figured it was time for me to turn to asking my own question.
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Here's the output of diskutil list. I deleted the partition that I was going to install Windows on, but it was part of disk1.
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/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         121.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         999.3 GB   disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s4
/dev/disk2
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   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *1.1 TB     disk2
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                                 616996D1-2052-4C88-B4E4-7524ED71468E
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/dev/disk3
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   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *16.0 GB    disk3
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 WININSTALL              16.0 GB    disk3s1
/dev/disk4
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   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *4.0 TB     disk4
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk4s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Time Capsule            1.0 TB     disk4s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS External Drive          3.0 TB     disk4s3

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I posed a question about not being able to boot up into windows using the option key method during restart. I never found an answer to it. Also, I'm one of those folks who lacks audio in windows Vista.

There is no solution, it cannot be done. Yes they are all products made by Apple, but the Mac has a different operating system than the iPad and the iPhone. The iPad and the iPhone run iOS. The Mac runs OS X. Apps for iOS do not run on a Mac and apps for OS X do not run on iPads or iPhones. If a developer makes an app for both iOS and for OS X they are separate purchases.

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Hello
I've installed Windows 8 Pro on my Macbook Pro. The probelm is that my graphics card will not regonize all the memory.
I have installed the newest driver from Intel, and I have also tried looking through the settings of my graphics card... Still nothing.

Muqlar wrote:
Hello Sig.
Did you not understand the question?
First line in my question reads "I've installed Windows 8 Pro on my Macbook Pro"
I don't need to install Windows 8, I have it installed. If you even read my question; I am asking if any one knows how to get Windows 8 to see all the memory on the graphic card, and not only 2MB of it like the picture show above.
The picture above shows "2112 MBytes" which is roughly 2 GB. The picture above does NOT show "only 2MB"

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I go throw the boot camp setup with setting my drive and burning the cd drives from mac os... So when I re start the computer and start installing.. My video card is not working... The screen is all chopped and bars running every were, so I can see what Im doing to install vista ... So how do I change this is their some upgrade with the video card and how do I do that
Im using this setup
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I don't use Bootcamp/Parallels/Windows but I saw in the Bootcamp forums that someone solved this issue by going to the ATI site and downloading and installing the X1900 drivers for Windows (http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html). They had to do this while in Windows (which was difficult) do to the garbled screen but managed to suceed. Not sure why they didn't download the trial version of Parallels and do the same thing with an ungarbled screen.

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Correct me if i'm wrong, but the original poster didn't ask or mention anything about Crossfire. (though as a side note, I have read that some people have sucessfully got their 7300gt's into SLI by purchasing a special dongle and downloading a hacked driver.)
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