Updating video drivers in Boot Camp

I recently installed Windows 7 on my 24" '08 iMac (3.06 dual core with Nvidia 8800GS) using Boot Camp 3.0. Everything is working quite nicely but I'm wondering if I can get updated Nvidia drivers directly from Nvidia's site for their 8800 series of cards.
In the Windows driver update update it says I'm up to date and the Nvidia system utility says that newer drivers aren't available. There are more up to date drivers, however, and I'm wondering if there's any issue downloading new drivers from Nvidia and installing them? Has anyone had experience with this?

The guide on drivers heaven tells you all you need to know, disable the UAC in vista and reboot. Download the ATI driver package which is now 8.6, extract the package and then cancel the install. Use the mod tool and then navigate to the ATI folder and double click setup. It should run perfectly and all is well, I did it the other day with my iMac which has the ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT chip. The simple way to say what the mod tool does is that it changes the driver to recognise the apple signature on the chip.

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I use Boot Camp on my Mac Pro for games. I play Age of Conan on Vista on my Mac using Boot Camp. I can't play Conan anymore because it is telling me to update my video drivers but I am worried it will effect the Mac side of the computer. What should I do?

The guide on drivers heaven tells you all you need to know, disable the UAC in vista and reboot. Download the ATI driver package which is now 8.6, extract the package and then cancel the install. Use the mod tool and then navigate to the ATI folder and double click setup. It should run perfectly and all is well, I did it the other day with my iMac which has the ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT chip. The simple way to say what the mod tool does is that it changes the driver to recognise the apple signature on the chip.

Video Drivers under Boot Camp

Can you install ATI drivers (like from Omega Drivers) under a Boot Camp installation of WinXP, or are you stuck with whatever Apple provided?

yes..I just installed the omegas and am rerunning 3d mark 05. Scored 2859 the first time..low for this card. Could be driver or severly underclocked.
One other thing I have noticed is that ati tool, ati tray tool(included with omegas) can't seem to measure closk speed and memory of the x1600. It is somehow locked out..maybe bios. Not sure yet. Will post scores with omega drivers.
3dmark 05 did show clock of 375 but showed 0 for memory.

How do i update video drivers

how do i update video drivers

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Installing updated Window 7 drivers on Boot Camp.

My wireless mouse does not work with Windows 7/Boot Camp. Still using a wired mouse.
I have updated boot camp to version 3.1 and have downloaded the file "Windows 7, late 2009 drivers"
The documentation that accompanied the drivers said to load to put the drivers on a flash drive and use the "boot camp assistant" in the utilities file and just follow directions.
There are no options to load just the drivers, it wants to partition the drive just as if Bootcamp had never been installed.
Is there a way to load these drivers after Bootcamp and Windows7 has been installed?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
Is there a way to load these drivers after Bootcamp and Windows7 has been installed?
Well that is the issue. You have obviously gotten ahead of the game. This works during the Windows 7 installation process, as is stated in the instructions for using the drivers. So you should follow the process to use the drivers and reinstall Windows 7.
But there is also an entire Apple Discussion forum dedicated to Boot Camp and Windows and whereas, not everyone here with an Intel iMac has installed, tried to install or has experience with BC & Windows, everyone there has or at least has an interest. They may have a work around and you may attract help more quickly there.
The Forums are at the bottom of the main Apple Discussions page under Windows Compatible Technology. Here is a link;
Boot Camp: Installation and Storage
Dah•veed

Slow video update with iSight on Boot Camp Windows XP SP3

I have the latest White Macbook with the NVidia Chipset. I have installed Windows XP SP3 via Boot Camp and all has gone fairly well. Only issue is iSight... It shows up in Devices as iSight and will open and initialise. However, the video preview is VERY slow. The picture updates every 10 seconds or so! It can take a still picture but any attempt to use as a video device (under Windows Movie Maker) causes a crash. Have used iSight under Boot Camp before, on earlier MacBooks with no such problem. It works fine under OSX. Any ideas? Many thanks.

Still no thoughts? If it helps, I've found out that if I use Windows Movie Maker and lower the resolution to the lowest available, iSight works fine. A clear preview is available and it will record video from the iSight. However, the original problems are still present when selecting the iSight icon from, "My Computer" or trying to use Windows Messenger. Anyone any ideas?

Can you update Video Drivers from Nvidia?

Hello,
I have an iMac 27-inch, late 2012 model with a built in Nvidia GTX - 660M 512 MB video card. Is it possible to use the Nvidia driver update for this build in card or should I only use Apple's video driver update? I'm sure there have been updates from Nvidia, but I haven't had a Apple update for at lease six months. I'm not having any problems, but like to keep current on drivers.
Thanks,
Dennis

In OS X, Apple provides GPU driver updates with every OS X update, so you don't have to worry about the driver. If you have Windows installed with Boot Camp, then you can install the most recent NVIDIA driver from the NVIDIA site > http://www.nvidia.com
Note that GPU drivers don't come as individual drivers, but they come with OS X updates. For example, updates like 10.8.5 or Mavericks may come with updated drivers

Guild Wars 2 client updating on Windows 7 Boot Camp

I originally downloaded and installed Guild Wars 2 client and updated with no problem. I've played the game and everything ran fine. I wanted to make a larger partition for my windows, so I went through the entire process of deleting the windows partition and creating a new one and then installing windows 7 Home Premium on it. After the clean install I downloaded the Guild Wars 2 client just fine, but when it attempts to update, it only updates for about 4 seconds to around 1MB of data. I use a direct ethernet connection The error says "Download Failed! Please check your internet connection and try again." The update continually builds off of the download so I'm almost done downloading the whole update (16GB) but it shouldn't have any problems maintaining it's connection. I have no firewall on and no antivirus even installed since i'm not using this computer for anything else until I figure out the problem. I tried other games to see if it was an overall problem, but I can update and play The Secret World and Tera with zero problems as well as other offline games that require patches like Dragon Age 2 and Sniper Elite V2. It can't be something simple since I've already contacted my ISP to make sure there was no throttling or blocks on their end and I've been contacting Arenanet technical support and they don't have any ideas for windows boot camp issues.
Any ideas on what could be the issue? The common firewall, antivirus, and ISP possibilities have been troubleshot to death.

you should be using Microsoft Security Essentials, regardless, or something for firewall besides your router, though that should be doing some of the work.
Windows on Mac aka "Boot Camp" is just to partition and motherboard drivers, otherwise it is maybe 95% same as a PC (sans BIOS for EFI).
You could of course bought WinClone or Paragon CampTuneX $20 to resize the old partitions.
Download managers and torrent-type with what ports it uses etc are not my area (torrents are funny, your IP address is out there for all to see and find which is one reason to not turn off firewalls and everything).

Video Issues with Boot Camp / WinXP Pro

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!

Apple Update screwed up my boot camp installation

Hey all -- I just installed boot camp 2.0 via Leopard (fresh, not an update) for the first time the other day. I installed XP SP2. For the first day or two, everything worked fine. Then I got a popup notice from Apple Update that offered updates for Quicktime, iTunes and Apple Boot Camp Drivers. I accepted the updates, and then afterwards things started going haywire. Now I can't use Firefox at all. It won't connect to any websites. Internet Explorer will get on the internet, but won't allow me to use any services where I have to sign in, such as this support site, iGoogle, etc. It even refuses some connections from various websites when trying to download other drivers. I've lowered all the privacy and security restrictions and turned off all anti-virus and firewall programs and still nothing. Apple Update won't even work anymore. Also, now my audio will only come out of my internal speakers, whereas before I had no problem with plugging in my old Creative Labs speakers into the rear audio line out port and getting audio through them. This is really, really frustrating. I hate Windows in general, but this is really making me start to dislike Apple too. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

I would try reinstalling the Apple drivers off of the Leopard CD, but if you can, back up any application data you want. In the end you may have to reinstall Windows.

Drivers for Boot Camp on MBP 15" late 2008/2009

I have just loaded Windoze XP on Boot Camp partition but after loading drivers (at least a half dozen times) none of the hardware is enabled - audio/nVidia graphics etc reports no drivers installed. I have visited the nVidia website and downloaded the latest drivers but still after installing - no drivers installed! Anyone else have this problem? Any fix or must we await a revision of boot camp with newer drivers?

I have noted a link to the latest version for Windows XP.
http://support.apple.com/downloads/BootCamp___Windows_XP_Drivers_Update_21
Boot Camp 2.1 is the latest version. We are way past due for an update.

Trouble installing drivers for Boot Camp XP

Okay, so I recently installed an older version of Windows XP onto my MacBook through Boot Camp. Windows runs fine, but none of the mac drivers are installed. I tried using the Mac OS discs, but they come up with the "windows installer installation wrapper" and a thing saying "the required resource UPDATE is missing."
So I realize this is basically the same situation as shown here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1497292&tstart=312
But buying a new version of XP is really not an option for me. Which leaves option 3. Now I looked through the link given that talks about Slipstreaming, but I am confused. Can someone possibly walk me through what slipstreaming is, and how I do it? The main problem I see with this is that I can't connect to the internet with Windows, so I can't download some of the things needed.
Can anyone help me?

You should probably post your question in the Boot Camp forums:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=237

Video Out in Boot Camp with Windows XP

Sorry, this is my first help request... i hope i write in a correct section.
I installed Windows XP SP2 with boot camp in my Mac Book Pro. I have the third part MiniDisplay Port to HDMI adapter with audio. I use it for projector. I always use it without problems.
With Windows XP i can't use it... i don't know why. The adapter is power off (led is off) and i don't know what i have to do for use second monitor in woindows XP.
I know about FN+F5 in windows... but in Mac F5 is keyboard light and if i set Functions keys as normal key (from Boot Camp Options) F5 is refresh key and fn+F5 is the keyboard light.
So what i have to do?
Thaks
Ale

Yes, XP will be able to detect the expansion card if you download the appropriate drivers online. When bootcamp was first starting... this article circulated http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305401... summary, you should remove the fiber channel card before bootcamping. Since then the software has gone through the proper modifications that you can just plug the card in, boot into windows, and download the LSi driver for XP.
So you'll have no problem setting this up.
Cheers
Ron

10.5.8 updated killed Write/Update permissions on my Boot camp partition.

I can't figure this one out. I regularly "reach over" to my boot camp partition to move files from XP to my mac, and have automator scripts that also do that. Since the update, it no longer works either manually or via automator. I can read and copy stuff, but not move or delete. I've tried disk utilities, permission fixing, re-running the update with the combo updater instead of the "normal" way, and even reinstalling the OS and re-applying the patches, but its still broken. Kind of a hassle. Not sure what to try next. I've also run chkdsk from XP.

Still broken on 10.5.8, but 10.6 fixed it

Trouble installing mac drivers from boot camp

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Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Just an idea for you. There is an entire Apple Discussion forum dedicated to Boot Camp and Windows XP.
Whereas, not everyone here with an Intel iMac has installed, tried to install or has experience with BC & XP, everyone there has or at least has an interest. You may attract help more quickly there.
The Forum is at the bottom of the main Apple Discussions page under Windows Compatible Technology.
Here is a link;
Forum: Boot Camp Public Beta

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