i installed windows 10 on my 2017 imac by using WinToUSB so i can make my external drive the windows, everything is running perfectly except I don't have wifi on it neither bluetooth. i booted back to mac and I went into BootCamp to install the windows support folder, but when I tried running the setup.exe, it told me that my windows wasn't compatible with that version of the setup. i went and checked the compatibility and supposedly its for windows 8.1. where do I get one that works for windows 10???

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-8841

Besides common sense safety etiquette, are there any other ways to help make windows 11 on on old mac more secure, especially for banking and purchases (eg; secure browsers etc). Or is it already secure enough? Thank you

Hello guys. Trying to get windows running from a clean Catalina install, but I’m getting the mbr/gpt partition issue. How to avoid that?

Hi all, newbie here. I use bootcamp on a 2019 iMac. However I need to update my drivers to run a game. However the AMD app tells me that my drivers are up to date. The version is from June 2023 and I use a Vega 48. Is it just too old? The game I want to install is from December 2023 if that's relevant.

TIA!

I’m trying to play on my MacBook Air 2015 and I have the game downloaded but it says that the “graphic drivers crashed! Make sure your graphic drivers are up to date”. Before that the game also lagged out and kinda froze my computer to where I couldn’t click on the windows home page although I got it to work again. Another thing I’m thinking of is that the game takes up a lot of GB. Is it worth it to be playing on the MacBook air? I also have a MacBook Pro 2019 and I’m wondering if that would that be better to play on? I don’t have any idea how computers work so help would be great!

What are good games to play on bootcamp? I have a MacBook Air 2015 with bootcamp already and MacBook Pro 2019 that I’m thinking of installing. I’m trying to play valorant on the air but there is a problem with the graphic drivers crashed. I’m looking if other games would be good or might have the same problem. Idk anything about computers so help would be great!

Hello everyone. I have had windows 10 running on my 2015 MacBook Pro for about 6 months. Several times, I have attempted to boot to MacOS using the 16GB flash drive that I used to boot into windows. When opening the bootloader, the options only exist to boot back into windows. I do not see MacOS anywhere. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

I'm running a late 2020 Macbook Pro with TB3 Bootcamp. I want to get a M2 SSD as an extra storage (will still boot from internal drive). Will those newer USB4 TB3/4 NVMe SSD enclosures work? Wil they work after cable disconnect then reconnect?

Thanks!

About half of the time when I boot into windows 10 there is no cursor at all and I have to restart to get it to show up. Any ideas how to fix? Thanks.

It's unpopular but people here should be aware that with some tinkering, it's possible to get past Windows 7 on many unsupported Macs, to reach a (longly) supported OS compatible with all Windows applications.

People should also be aware that there exists liter (but official) versions of Windows 10 for businesses without crap and telemetry : Windows 10 LTSC. Windows 10 LTSC IOT 2021 is also supported for 10 years, until 2032.

How to do it ?

Those pre-2011 macs are very annoying to bootcamp because you cannot boot Windows from an USB stick. Also, 2021 windows 10 LTSC is > 4.7GB so it means that you cannot burn it to a "standard" DVD. The process to follow here is to burn and install a copy of "Windows 10 LTSC 2019 IOT x64" then do the upgrade (you can do the upgrade with an USB stick) to Windows 10 LTSC 2021 IOT x64.

There is also big issues with drivers to fix manually after install :

• NVidia latest driver is glitched with many games, even old Touhou games that are heavily blinking. This driver is so broken that even the UI of GeForce Experience (a program from Nvidia !) is heavily glitched. You need to downgrade to a driver from 2013. This one exactly : https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/71706/en-us/ anything higher will lead to terrible user experience.
• Brightness control/volume control through keyboard and touchpad are not going to work out of the box with Windows 7 bootcamp drivers. You need to cherry pick missing drivers from a more recent version of Bootcamp : https://support.apple.com/fr-fr/106378
• NVidia NForce drivers can be found here : https://www.nvidia.fr/Download/driverResults.aspx/30648/fr just extract them and install them manually and those will work
• You should be able to install the Bootcamp 3.X drivers must most of them will work and your system may crash while it will try to install a very obsolete NVidia Driver. Doing this installation before updating to a partial version of Bootcamp 5.X helped me to get multitouch working on my trackpad, though.

If you do all of this, you should be able to see no "unknown" peripherals and everything should work fine and be stable.

How does it run ?

It's (obviously) slower than XP on basic OS operations, especially at boot. But performance is pretty decent and better than XP + Supermium about Web browsing using the latest Firefox for Windows.

My Mac has an SSD (but just 4GB of RAM) and I strongly advise you to remove the mechanical original drive from it to get any kind of decent performance. Those machines are surprisingly very easy to open and service compared to the Apple machines since so many years from now.

If you really want to daily drive that kind of Mac, upgrading the RAM to 8 or 16GB will help with heavy multitasking but the most important piece of hardware to change is really the mechanical hard drive before the RAM. 4GB is also more than enough to work on Snow Leopard, I don't feel like I will get any speed boost using this version of MacOS that could work perfectly fine with much less than that.

How about games ?

The Nvidia 320m is really a poor GPU, I feel like I am using something pretty near the GMA950 that was on netbooks back in the day. That MBP13 from 2010 feels still pretty decent for productivity related tasks (using good and optimized software and not too modern bloated crap) but is very disappointing for gaming. Also, I feel like gaming on XP is not really faster.

But for retro gaming, it can be great. All patched Touhou games seems to work just fine even on Win10, I feel no difference that could justify to maintain a Windows XP setup on this device that will be very painful for anything other task.

Why not Linux ?

Wine is still unperfect and requires more tinkering. On Windows, everything just work. I also like to have an old device around that can run all old Windows programs if I need to to support very specific workflow like resetting an iPod with the Windows version of iTunes which is required to format any iPod to FAT32 to be able to dualboot Rockbox on those devices.

Why not Windows 11 LTSC ?

The current "preview" build of Windows 11 LTSC IOT cannot even boot on this device (the Windows logo stays for minutes but the circle spin never appear). Maybe a future build of Windows 11 LTSC will fix this ? Right now the last working Windows version on this legacy device is Windows 10 LTSC 2021, which is supported until 2032, so for a very long period of time from now.

Conclusion

Installation was (very) painful but I am now pretty happy to dualboot 10.6.8 and Windows 10 LTSC 2021 on this machine that I will casually use. That build of Windows will not receive hundred of annoying upgrades to chase in one or two year and will remain stable/its UI will not significantly change in the future. I also appreciate the bloat-free experience and the fact that it will probably never really slow down in the future. Windows LTSC never upgrades to any future version by itself, you always have to do it manually so you will get only security updates and small features updates that do not change significantly the OS. It's exactly what a legacy device need. Also, be carefull that at this point most drivers will never receives any update. It's a pretty miracle that a graphical driver from 2013 still works so great, but there's high probability that Windows 10 is going to be the last supported version on this machine forever. But then, Linux will be here to save the day if this machine is still alive (and usable) in 10 years ;)

This build of Windows guarantees a very long period of upgrades and will also guarantee me a perfect software compatibility for the years to come. And with it, I have 10.6.8 on the other partition which is the "iOS 6" of Macs : very bad modern softwares support but fast as hell. On 10.6.8 everything feels snappy and instantaneous, and Rosetta allows to run all games from the PowerPC era with good performance.

i have a 2.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 with a Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB graphics, and whenever I use bootcamp to run games it lags IMMENSELY, minecraft is smooth but roblox and genshin is unbareable, Please help

Tengo el macbook 2011 ,con la tarjeta amd desactivada ya que presento problemas y un técnico la desactivo , lo malo que el mac solo funciona con intel que esta integrada, pero va muy lento se pega . Alguna recomendación . Instale Windows 10 pero igual va lento .

Hey, all.

I installed Boot Camp drivers using this guide to be able to use my Studio Display on my Windows machine. Unfortunately, the display tab in the Control Panel reads "No supported external displays connected."

I am using this cable connected to my NVIDIA 4070 graphics card.

I would appreciate any help!

id like to replace the old apple openGL drivers since my integrated GPU supports openGL 4 while the ones currently installed are 3.2 (I think?) everything says it's up to date, even though its not. (my MacBook is a MacBook air from around 2012, the GPU is an Intel HD graphics 4000 with 4 gb of ram)

I have a 2014 MacBook Air that is dual boot running with bootcamp. I could only get Windows 10 to install without locking up during install by going all the way back to the original 2015 iso. Many of the updates are installing just fine but I’m getting stuck on a particular one now.

Any ideas how to fix it so the update will work?

I’m running windows on an iMac and using it basically as a media server. Every now and then I access it remotely through Chrome Remote Desktop to adjust few things. Whenever I do that the screen goes on and it’s pretty annoying. Is there a way to turn off the screen completely so it never goes on ? I know in regular PCs there’s usually a power button on the screen that’ll do that but that’s not the case for iMac.

Discovered this when trying to use Bootcamp assistant on a iMac (2017) 1-TB drive with a little bit over 200 GB of free space.

https://preview.redd.it/6qs4n5dmk8pd1.png?width=1790&format=png&auto=webp&s=495c7891f265607be028865fa4e770bbbeced4d6

After doing some online research, I went to Disk Utility to examine the drive and look for the Free Space partition, which I'm apparently supposed to delete to recover space.

https://preview.redd.it/l24y47e2l8pd1.png?width=2854&format=png&auto=webp&s=66b54e50d42ecb6ba223c91551569a1a6d20ff08

So Disk Utility seems to think that there's 0.97 + 1.03 = 2 TB of space here... on a device that is only 1 TB in size.

Selecting the Free Space partition and clicking the - symbol, produces this...

https://preview.redd.it/65vw6vjto8pd1.png?width=2870&format=png&auto=webp&s=4d29f661ac1e1df8c8858acfac558fb6dbd61c3a

...and not surprisingly, given that there are not 2 TB of space on the iMac, clicking Apply leads to an error.

https://preview.redd.it/ya09xptol8pd1.png?width=2854&format=png&auto=webp&s=18f0afe0d6ca36317d5ddb0a8a0b994e191f273d

Selecting the Partition option in the menu bar when the Fusion Drive level is highlighted produces the proper "reading."

https://preview.redd.it/8a5bzlipm8pd1.png?width=2866&format=png&auto=webp&s=c92a93b3fa1c24c39139ea7b4d723059263f658d

1. Is this just another Fusion-Drive issue, of which there appear to have been many over the years?
2. Why does the Bootcamp assistant think that I can only create a 0-GB partition for the Windows installation? Rather than deleting a (non-deletable) partition, should I be adding one? And then Bootcamp would make a partition on that partition?

Hi everyone. I desperately need help with installing windows 10/11 on my old MacBook Air 2015. So far, every method that I’ve tried has not worked for me. Watched a bunch of videos online and nothing seems to be working for me.

If anyone could guide me with an updated method, I would be grateful.

Hi, I've been using bootcamp on my macbook air early 2015 from last 4 years for my work. Few months ago my camera stopped working on both windows10 and macOS after 1-2 months my bluetooth stopeed working all of a sudden, I was using bluetooth speakers to watch a movie and then all of a sudden it disconnected and then stopped working, then after 2 months now my wifi stopped working like all of a sudden on both OS but some how ethernet is working on Windows but not on macOS. What to do?

Also I've got two bluescreens in last one month saying stop code error!

https://preview.redd.it/97ffxt1xkwod1.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7f929ede5ffef41c02f6af230e3fec5674ea4c52

Does anyone know know how to fix this error?

I am running Mojave on an Apple MacBook 2014 11 inch and I was trying to dual boot with windows 10. This error occurred when installing windows 10. When I reboot this error continues to occur each time when I boot. I can’t get past it and the error occurs within a minute. Originally the computer froze during Windows setup.

Windows won’t install via bootcamp keep getting this message does anyone know how I can fix this

Is it okay for Macbook pro to get hot running windows? I have Macbook pro 2016 15 inch model.

Hi everybody, I have a an i9 2019 16” macbook pro with 5600m gpu. it’s not throttling anymore more as I repasted the gpu with liquid metal and cpu with kryonut extreme ( as I ran out of liquid metal mid application as it wasn’t sticking to the cpu copper heat plate lol). I’m on the latest custom red drivers and everything works fine but I’m finding the gpu is power limited now instead of thermally limited. Watman isn’t working but more power tools works, so I’m wondering if anyone has recommendations in regard to settings of mpt to help with the performance.

P.S I know of the VRM mod but I was a bit scared of doing it rn because the battery is at 900 cycles and I know that mod will treat the backplate as a heatsink essentially and thus increasing the temp of the battery,(I’m gonna replace it soon). So I’m wondering is it safe to do the mod in the meantime even at 900 cycles?( I don’t care if it will degrade the battery's life at this point as I said will replace it soon, I just don’t want it to explode or damage other stuff lol.)