MP 7,1 Gaming on the new Mac Pro

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This is happening to me too. I have the Vega Pro II though but same drivers. This is a driver level issue. Apple needs to update the boot camp drivers to include the newest AMD drivers as the newest AMD drivers fixed this Particular issue. Everyone with an AMD card had this issue until AMD released new drivers to fix it and Apple hasn’t implemented the new drivers into boot camp drivers yet.

As a workaround, you can use the “unofficial boot camp drivers“ and that’ll fix the issue since those drivers use the newer drivers from AMD. Be forewarned though, with those unofficial drivers, I experienced random lockup’s requiring hard reset so I went back to the official drivers and am waiting patiently for Apple to update the drivers.

So essentially, your Mac Pro is fine.

EDIT: Also, only COD MW is affected, all other games (That I play) are fine.
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Can't you just use Windows AMD driver? That's what I've been using the whole time in my 5,1 using Nvidia cards.
Oh just saw the other post, looks like AMD doesn't detect W5700X yet? bummer. Might have to just slide in my GTX1080 until then.
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Would the Vega Pro II "Duo" be even better than the non Duo for gaming in bootcamp?

I was looking for the same answer but looks like there isn't that many that uses dual GPU.

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I'm running Flight Sim 2020 on the 7,1 in my signature with a HP Reverb G2 headset connected from thunderbolt port using a Microsoft Surface USB-C to Displayport adaptor.

This works very well in Windows 11 Pro for Workstations, the W6800X hasn't quite the sheer grunt of an NVidia RTX3090 for this purpose, nor does the W3245 Xeon have the performance of a AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D which is near purpose built for FS2020. But it's not bad and the 32GB W6800X never gets any dramas with out of memory glitches.

The VR portal in Windows I set to pause so it doesn't mirror the screen. With that done and FS running I get medium-high settings in VR mode using the PMDG 737 Boeing Business Jet. It's incredible how immersive and real it is. It is so different to just looking at a computer screen. When you are taxiing along you just look out the side window as you are doing a turn or watching other planes. Or when you get "traffic, traffic" you look down at the TCAS display then you can also look out the window naturally, and when you are landing you have a real feeling of where you are in relation to the ground and the runway that a 2D computer screen doesn't give you.

One annoyance is that you cannot use the regular AMD drivers for windows, you have to use specific Apple Bootcamp ones for the W6800X. That's minor however, and compared to the talk from others, my machine never makes a noise when running Flight Sim, while I heard stories of their Ryzens and RTX whatevers at high fan speeds sounding like a jet engine powering up. You quickly appreciate how well done the Mac Pro 7,1 is.

This is really system heavy stuff, you need a monster computer to run it at very high detail and high frame rates. People with PC builds doing this stuff are having super-computer builds, they are very high end machines, and it needs to be because it's streaming down satellite imagery, it's doing photogrammetry, very detailed weather systems and then add-on planes are having total system simulation to match the real thing.

In the old days of Flight Simulator X, people used revved up computers because it didn't support multi-cores properly, yet the experience graphically wasn't so sophisticated. Now we still need super-computers, but the visuals and detail match up.

That's the only game I have, otherwise it's normally work use only on a different drive in MacOS 12.5.But this is keeping my sanity while I recover from severe injuries.