Help! OpenGl on windows with bootcamp

Hi, so I've installed windows 8 on my iMac sucessfully, but for some reason (after updating the drivers through intel AND bootcamp) my opengl is still only 1.1 and i cant figure out how to update it. Most of the games i am trying to play require atleast opengl 3.0. Also my sound wont work when i use windows (using headphones and external speakers, neither work). Any information will help, thank you!

if the video card driver does not support OpenGL 3 then you're out of luck
you should stick with the latests bootcamp driver found here
get the latests version which list support for your mac
Apple - Support - Downloads
and you can see if your hardware support various games on this site
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri
also not sure what you try to update drivers from intel does all mid 2011 not come with amd radeon ?

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Then you might check at any of the other university book stores or software stores or any computer store in town for the 64-bit version.
If you want to use the 32-bit version from the school (you probably get it for free or very cheap) then you could purchase Parallels and run it as a virtual machine concurrently with OS X. There are some caveats:
1. You have to purchase Parallels (there may be an academic discount.) List is $79.95.
2. Your computer needs minimally 4 GBs of RAM, but realistically 8 GBs would be better.
3. Parallels creates a pseudo-drive on your hard drive. It could easily require 50 GBs of disk space.
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Welcome to Apple Support Communities
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Hello all!
I have run into the typical Bootcam problems on my macbook pro when trying to install W7.
Symptoms:
1)Bootcamp can't install the updates for my mac. Okay, whatever, can be bypassed.
Chose "I have the updates" and tried to partition my drive.
During the process, I get a:
2)"some files could not be moved" message.
Now, I know there are solutions for this, like:
1)checkdisk and repair utility - didn't work.
1a)try to format to a small partition - selected the minimum possible, it didn't work.
2)Third party partition software - No, sorry. Don't want to pay to fix a feature that should be working anyway.
3)Reinstall Macosx - won't do it. Too much time and hassle. Just no.
4)Look for the messages that bootcamp generates in the "messages.app" and remove the problematic files. This looks like the best shot, but the strange thing is that Bootcamp doesn't generate error messages that would help me identify the files that can't be moved.
5)Delete parallels and all associated files - done, didn't help.
Any ideas on how to fix this problem?
Machine: macbook pro 2009 (non unibody), OSX 10.6.8, 4 gigs of ram.

And it's failing at that.
Since you have enough room, the only reason something like that should fail would be a locked file or folder sitting in the area it wants to allocate to the Windows partition.
If you have an external drive, you can use SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner to duplicate your drive to an empty drive/partition on the external. Make sure it's empty, as either will erase what's already there to make the target drive an exact duplicate of the source drive.
Then boot to the cloned external drive, erase the main drive and clone it back. Everything will then be contiguous and you should have no problem creating a Windows partition with Boot Camp.

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Hello,
I wondering if this is possible. We have a Dell 64bit machine that had some hardware failure so the user has sent up a purchase order for a new MacPro. His hard drive, with Windows XP Pro SP2 64bit, is fine and contains his installation of the Adobe CS2 Suite, MacroMedia Studio Suite and most importantly 3D Studio Max. What we're wondering is this, since we don't have an Intel-based Mac here to test with, can we install the SATA drive from the Dell into the MacPro and have the startup see the Windows installation on the secondary drive. If this is possible this would save a lot of time not to mention the transition from 3D Studio Max to Maya. I didn't see anything like this in the discussion but if someone has some information or a link to a previous discussion that would be great. Thanks for any help offered!
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I doubt this is possible, and even if it was, it would not be advisable to use an OS that was installed on one computer, then move the installation to a computer with a different processor architecture. Doing that is asking for trouble.
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