Please advise me on setting up and using Windows

by RedRock

Fri Oct 24, 2014 9:08 pm
658 Posts
sorry red

forgot to tell you those specs are right there in the main description of the computer, along with the hard drive size / ram loaded / graphics capacity / and operating system loaded.

old


good hunting to all, except when hunting me , then best look behind you cause that's where i'll be
Sun Nov 09, 2014 4:19 am
291 Posts
Red, when we spoke about loading Windows drivers for your machine, it looks like you will not have to. If you use BootCamp to prepare your computer for dual boot, it will download the appropriate drivers you need for your particular Mac.  

Again, if you have a buffer overrun error running CoD:UO, you will have to roll back Intel HD Graphics driver.
Tue Nov 11, 2014 9:58 pm
334 Posts
Here is the graphic chip (?board) my i7 iMac has.  This is what the Windows OS will be using.  So will that Intel HD issue still be possible?

ATI Radeon HD 5750:

 Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 5750
 Type: GPU
 Bus: PCIe
 PCIe Lane Width: x16
 VRAM (Total): 1024 MB
 Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
 Device ID: 0x68a1
 Revision ID: 0x0000
 ROM Revision: 113-B9710C-238
 EFI Driver Version: 01.00.417
 Displays:
iMac:
 Resolution: 1920 x 1080
 Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
 Main Display: Yes
 Mirror: Off
 Online: Yes
 Built-In: Yes
 Connection Type: DisplayPort
Display Connector:
 Status: No Display Connected
Thu Nov 13, 2014 12:24 am
291 Posts
Probably not, that issue exists when Windows uses the processor as the main video/graphics processor and therefore uses Intel HD graphics driver.  Because your system has an additional graphics chip, that ATI Radeon chip will most likely be the main and only graphics hardware running. Some systems allow both the Intel graphics and other graphics gpu to run concurrently, but yours will probably not.