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Need Driver for 8600m GT For MacBookPro


Cr0nus

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so the drivers that came with Bootcamp are god awful... can someone PLEASE PLEASE help me with finding a driver or a modded inf that will work with the GPU in this machine

Im running Windows XP Pro, its a 2.4 ghz Core2Duo with 2 gigs of Ram, a 7200RPM Harddrive, and a 8600m GT with 256mb of memory... this should give me more then around 70 FPS on Counter Strike: Source stress test so im quite sure these drivers are completely whack....

PLEASE HELP :)

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Ive tried just about every 150 series driver and 160 series driver (with the modded inf files)

when i install them it says "installation complete".. but when i restart i get a frozen computer, quickly followed by a BSOD

(blue screen of death)

are there any mac enthusiasts out there that can help me?

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I'm running the 162.15 drivers on my MacBook Pro. I can't vouch for performance compared to the standard Boot Camp drivers or others, but it runs Oblivion at 1440x900 resolution at a rate I'm happy with.

I would recommend completely uninstalling your existing video driver and rebooting before trying to install a replacement and see if that helps.

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so the drivers that came with Bootcamp are god awful... can someone PLEASE PLEASE help me with finding a driver or a modded inf that will work with the GPU in this machine

Im running Windows XP Pro, its a 2.4 ghz Core2Duo with 2 gigs of Ram, a 7200RPM Harddrive, and a 8600m GT with 256mb of memory... this should give me more then around 70 FPS on Counter Strike: Source stress test so im quite sure these drivers are completely whack....

PLEASE HELP :)

i have the same machine except im running Vista 32-bit. im getting the "spooge error" when running warhammer 40k dawn of war. its a known video driver issue. would be nice to fix the problem <=[

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also, when i install these drivers, the installation guide tells me it cant find any drivers that match my hardware. then it promptly quits. sucky =[

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also, when i install these drivers, the installation guide tells me it cant find any drivers that match my hardware. then it promptly quits. sucky =[

You've replaced original INF with modded one (a seperate download)

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i have the same machine except im running Vista 32-bit. im getting the "spooge error" when running warhammer 40k dawn of war. its a known video driver issue. would be nice to fix the problem <=[

I was wondering, does the MBP support DX10 fine with Vista ? Or is it only half functional ?

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I've had pretty much the same problems as Cronus although I did get 162.18 working by uninstalling the stock bootcamp drivers and using setup.exe. I haven't tried installing it through the "have disk" method. Problem is I'm greedy and want to overclock and sadly i think all the 16x.xx series drivers prohibit overclocking. Someone mentioned overclocking through the vbios but im totally lost as to how to do that.

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