iMac Pro AMD drivers?

[beberlin]

Just fired up the new iMac Pro 10-core with Vega 64 graphics. Installed Windows 10 via bootcamp. AMD does not seem to offer drivers on their website specifically for iMac Pro - any idea if the normal iMac ones should be used? I'm trying to fix an issue with Mass Effect Andromeda (even the main menu stutters). GTA V works well even with 4K resolution.

 

[Mac32]

Sorry for going off topic, but does the HDR setting in Mass Effect Andromeda work? Does it have a visual effect? I’m trying to ascertain if the iMac Pro has some HDR capability. Would really appreciate it, thanks!

 

[chrfr]

Just fired up the new iMac Pro 10-core with Vega 64 graphics. Installed Windows 10 via bootcamp. AMD does not seem to offer drivers on their website specifically for iMac Pro - any idea if the normal iMac ones should be used? I'm trying to fix an issue with Mass Effect Andromeda (even the main menu stutters). GTA V works well even with 4K resolution.

Doesn’t the Boot Camp assistant download drivers for the GPU when you create the installer?

 

[dimensional]

Really curious about this as well. Not getting great performance on Windows -- have to run Overwatch on minimum settings and seeing around 20-30fps at 2560x1440 Fullscreen.

Seeing great performance increases on the few Mac games I have though.

 

[Mac32]

Really curious about this as well. Not getting great performance on Windows -- have to run Overwatch on minimum settings and seeing around 20-30fps at 2560x1440 Fullscreen.

Seeing great performance increases on the few Mac games I have though.

Seems strange, must be a driver issue. The GPU should be plenty quick. What about performance in other Windows games?

 

[Brookzy]

The drivers should install automatically after installing Windows with Boot Camp. If they didn't, you can re-download them from Apple by opening Boot Camp Assistant in macOS and click on Action > Download Windows Support Software.

It wouldn't surprise me if the Windows drivers were trash, at least for now.

 

[Redneck1089]

Do we have to use Windows drivers, or is it possible to just use AMD’s own drivers for the Vega cards?

 

[dimensional]

Do we have to use Windows drivers, or is it possible to just use AMD’s own drivers for the Vega cards?

I tried to download the AMD windows drivers and it complained and said it wasn't compatible with the mac.

More worrying is when you go to AMD to download the AMD bootcamp drivers they don't list support for the iMac Pro. I feel like bootcamp is just installing some vanilla AMD drivers and we have to wait for the optimized ones still. I hope I'm wrong!

 

[Brookzy]

Do we have to use Windows drivers, or is it possible to just use AMD’s own drivers for the Vega cards?

Generally speaking AMD makes changes to their cards for Apple which leaves them incompatible with the standard Windows drivers, unless they are unofficially modified such as by the bootcampdrivers.com guys. Apple is usually slow to release official Windows drivers - it took until the end of November for Apple to release relatively modern Windows drivers for the 2017 iMac.

I tried to download the AMD windows drivers and it complained and said it wasn't compatible with the mac.

More worrying is when you go to AMD to download the AMD bootcamp drivers they don't list support for the iMac Pro. I feel like bootcamp is just installing some vanilla AMD drivers and we have to wait for the optimized ones still. I hope I'm wrong!

You could try downloading the drivers from Apple again like I explained above and see what AMD package is included in the download.

 

[dimensional]

You could try downloading the drivers from Apple again like I explained above and see what AMD package is included in the download.

I'll try that tonight when I get off work and post results here.
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Apple is usually slow to release official Windows drivers - it took until the end of November for Apple to release relatively modern Windows drivers for the 2017 iMac.

I really hope this isn't the case for the iMac Pro. A big selling point of it was for VR content creators and most current VR content game creators are going to have to run their stuff under Windows to test it on Oculus for example.

 

[gian8989]

If AMD decide to release new drivers other than the bootcamp one you will probably find them here: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/bootcamp

 

[Mac32]

I'll try that tonight when I get off work and post results here.
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I really hope this isn't the case for the iMac Pro. A big selling point of it was for VR content creators and most current VR content game creators are going to have to run their stuff under Windows to test it on Oculus for example.

With Nvidia you can simply download any regular driver from their website. It's disappointing that AMD can't do the same. (Crikey, the last two driver updates are two years apart. Obviously not practical for casual gaming.)

 

[ivyharriet]

I'll try that tonight when I get off work and post results here.
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Please do! I'm looking at buying an iMac Pro for both professional reasons and as a gaming machine, I would really really appreciate hearing about your experiences using it for any modern games since nobody seems to have benchmarks yet!

 

[smgfreak]

could you take 1 minute an make a Screenshot of GPU-Z within Win10 i am interessted in the VEGA Specs !

 

[richinaus]

With Nvidia you can simply download any regular driver from their website. It's disappointing that AMD can't do the same. (Crikey, the last two driver updates are two years apart. Obviously not practical for casual gaming.)

This is a bit scary to me and never realised this [lack of AMD updates]
Another comment about the iMac drivers being update end November explains a lot to me also why I noticed quite a bit of an improvement in my iMac in Bootcamp [previous to this I had decided to dump Apple as it was average to disappointing].

 

[Mac32]

This is a bit scary to me and never realised this [lack of AMD updates]
Another comment about the iMac drivers being update end November explains a lot to me also why I noticed quite a bit of an improvement in my iMac in Bootcamp [previous to this I had decided to dump Apple as it was average to disappointing].

Well, there is the unofficial www.bootcampdrivers.com

 

[ThatSandWyrm]

I'll try that tonight when I get off work and post results here.
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I really hope this isn't the case for the iMac Pro. A big selling point of it was for VR content creators and most current VR content game creators are going to have to run their stuff under Windows to test it on Oculus for example.

True professional VR creators are going to have a Windows PC running side-by-side with their Mac. Rebooting into Windows for VR tests (and back to MacOS) burns way too much dev time. You need to be able to make a small change and test it in seconds/minutes. Plus a 4-core Windows machine will be faster than the iMac Pro at certain kinds of tasks, and you can let it munch on Photo-scanning and light map rendering while you do other things on the Mac.

 

[42JRT]

Just fired up the new iMac Pro 10-core with Vega 64 graphics. Installed Windows 10 via bootcamp. AMD does not seem to offer drivers on their website specifically for iMac Pro - any idea if the normal iMac ones should be used? I'm trying to fix an issue with Mass Effect Andromeda (even the main menu stutters). GTA V works well even with 4K resolution.

This improbably an old thread, but has anyone tried the fairly recent AMD drivers on the AMD website https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/apple-boot-camp ?

This is showing:

• iMac Pro (2017)

Boot Camp iMac Pro Driver (Win10) Driver
Display driver to support iMac Pro (2017) on Apple Boot Camp.

Supported GPUs:

• AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56/64

400 MB 9/11/2018

On an accompanying page they also give a procedure for uninstalling and then reinstalling the new drivers but for a 'normal' Windows PC...? That procedure does look to be very similar to the BootCampDrivers procedure but, in this case, using official AMD drivers.
Has anyone any experience of this?