Late-2013-15-Inch-MBPr Windows8.1 Bootcamp Guide

Question

After 2 days of debugging BSOD errors I was able to install Windows 8.1 on my Late 2013 15 Inch MacBook Pro Retina.
So the first thing you need to do is ditch the Bootcamp assistant drivers and download the older drivers from the apple website...
You can download them here: Boot Camp Support Software 5.1.5640
The next step is to create your USB Boot Disk through Bootcamp, make sure the format is MSDOS-FAT.
After your boot disk is created move the downloaded drivers onto that disk and rename the folder to "Windows Drivers."
Now open Disk Utility.
Click on the Hard Drive at the top of the list.
Click Partition at the top of the window.
Click the "+" on the bottom leftish side of the window.
Size your partition by dragging the gray bar that separates the two partitions.
Name the partition, "BootCamp"
Change the format to, "ExFat."
Click "Apply."
Now it's time to install Windows.
Shut your Mac down.
Turn it on holding the "Option" key.
Choose "EFI Boot."
Follow the on screen instructions until you get to the select disk to install screen.
Choose the 4th disk partition in the list, and click format (if this is not an option choose new or continue.)
After Windows is installed and set up go straight to the desktop and click on the folder in the bottom left.
Click on "This PC." on the left side of the window.
Now choose your usb storage device and open the folder up that we named "Windows Drivers."
****WARNING****
DO NOT INSTALL THE BOOTCAMP.EXE FILE FROM EITHER THE APPLE FOLDER OR THE MAIN FOLDER.
Now select the drivers folder, and install all drivers from the Apple folder EXCEPT for the BootCamp driver.
Install all drivers from the "Intel" folder except for the graphics driver.
Install all drivers from the "Marvell" folder.
Install the "NvidiaProgess.exe" from the "Nvidia" folder only if you have a dedicated video card.
Install the "BroadcomWireless64" driver from the "Broadcom" folder.
Install all "Realtek" drivers.
Install "Asix" Drivers.
Install "Cirrus" Drivers.
Install "Atheros" Drivers.
The rest of the drivers are optional, but once again stay away from the BOOTCAMP.EXE files.
So at this point your Mac should be running Windows just fine, and you should not have any blue screen errors, but your trackpad may not be working with right clicks.
To get right clicks working follow the instructions on this website. http://trackpad.powerplan7.com/installation_instructions.htm (be sure to reboot between both installations)
If you have an Nvidia graphics card your screen may not be as bright as with the non dedicated GPU. These settings can be adjusting in the "Windows Control Panel," under "Display Settings."
Congratulations you now have all of the features working on your Mac in Windows, and you can use all of the features of Windows.

Answer 1

Csound1 wrote:
Once more:
It is entirely unsupported by Apple, (which makes it a hack).
I don't really care what your opinion is, I have no idea if you have a clue what you are doing, but I do know that Apple does
Have a nice day
EFI booting has several advantages.
1. No fragile hybrid MBR. Even Apple's Disk Utility does not recognize it and does not keep it in sync.
2. No CSM-BIOS layer which makes the boot faster.
3. Partitions are GPT and hence can be expanded/shrunk.
4. Windows 8.x supports (U)EFI.
5. Apple Support for Bootcamp is limited anyway.