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2012 MacBook Pro with 650m GT - games don't recognize GPU in Windows 10!

TSE

TSE

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Jun 25, 2007
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I have a MacBook Pro with a 650m GT in Windows 10, and cannot for the life of me figure out why my MacBook Pro cannot play games. I have all the boot camp drivers installed, and have tried updating the nvidia drivers to no success. Whenever I try to run a 3d game, the game never recognizes my graphics card!
 
keysofanxiety said:
I know you’ve tried the drivers, but can you double check you’ve downloaded GeForce Experience? That’ll install an app and scan for the right drivers.

You can get the application here:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/geforce-experience/

That’s the best one for the OEM drivers. The Apple drivers are incredibly outdated. Let me know how you get on. :)
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I did that, I'm just going to delete the boot camp partition and start over! Thanks for the help!
 
TSE said:
I did that, I'm just going to delete the boot camp partition and start over! Thanks for the help!
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Before you go with the nuclear option, press CMD + R to open Run and type in devmgmt.msc

Expand graphics drivers in Device Manager, right-click the nvidia and completely uninstall, check the option for delete drivers, then restart your computer.

Reinstall drivers from GeForce Experience, does that work?
 
keysofanxiety said:
Before you go with the nuclear option, press CMD + R to open Run and type in devmgmt.msc

Expand graphics drivers in Device Manager, right-click the nvidia and completely uninstall, check the option for delete drivers, then restart your computer.

Reinstall drivers from GeForce Experience, does that work?
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Hi my useful friend. Thank you so much for the added reply.

Unfortunately, same issue.
 
TSE said:
Hi my useful friend. Thank you so much for the added reply.

Unfortunately, same issue.
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Can you get cmd + r, powercfg.cpl, try change to high performance – you can also go into the settings for high performance and change a few specifics, maybe power sleep for graphics (possibly);

Which version of Windows 10 are you running? I assume it’s anniversary edition or later?

Just to confirm, it definitely shows in device manager and it’s not disabled? When you say games don’t detect it, could you show me an example please?

Sorry to go through so many steps, just keen to ensure you don’t run into the same problem after reinstalling Windows. Often it’s not necessary!
 
keysofanxiety said:
Can you get cmd + r, powercfg.cpl, try change to high performance – you can also go into the settings for high performance and change a few specifics, maybe power sleep for graphics (possibly);

Which version of Windows 10 are you running? I assume it’s anniversary edition or later?

Just to confirm, it definitely shows in device manager and it’s not disabled? When you say games don’t detect it, could you show me an example please?

Sorry to go through so many steps, just keen to ensure you don’t run into the same problem after reinstalling Windows. Often it’s not necessary!
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Age of Empires II can't run as it gives me an error related to a graphics .dll!

EverQuest cannot run as it states "3D Devices not found"!

It's frustrating, very very frustrating!

To be honest, my Windows is already very bloated with a lot of stupid applications I downloaded and installed to fix the issue, so I will reinstall it and just see where it takes me. I will report back to you, I hope the issue ceases!
 
TSE said:
Age of Empires II can't run as it gives me an error related to a graphics .dll!

EverQuest cannot run as it states "3D Devices not found"!

It's frustrating, very very frustrating!

To be honest, my Windows is already very bloated with a lot of stupid applications I downloaded and installed to fix the issue, so I will reinstall it and just see where it takes me. I will report back to you, I hope the issue ceases!
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Oh okay buddy, best of luck. Please let me know either way how it goes, from a clean install we’ll do our best to get this working for you. :)
 
TSE said:
I appreciate your help so far my friend, shoot me your PayPal info.
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No way, keep your cash for beer to commiserate the joys of troubleshooting Windows! Besides, I only accept GIFs made by AngerDanger as legal tender. :p

Let me know when Windows is reinstalled and we’ll go from there if it doesn’t work. Speak soon dude.
 
keysofanxiety said:
No way, keep your cash for beer to commiserate the joys of troubleshooting Windows! Besides, I only accept GIFs made by AngerDanger as legal tender. :p

Let me know when Windows is reinstalled and we’ll go from there if it doesn’t work. Speak soon dude.
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Now boot camp assistant is having issues making the windows install flash drive! Quite the headache!
 
TSE said:
Now boot camp assistant is having issues making the windows install flash drive! Quite the headache!
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Oh boy, it’s fun and games for you today. :(

Might be worth formatting the USB first as FAT32 or trying a different USB.

I’m inb4ing any issues — if it finally installs Windows but doesn’t boot into it and just black screens, download the trial of Parallels and boot into bootcamp that way. Somehow booting into it fixes that problem and then it’ll boot normally via Alt.

Out of interest, do you have an SSD installed on your laptop? RAM upgrade? Not that it’ll affect anything, just should make the process a little less painful with an SSD.
 
Quick question, did you install Windows using EFI or BIOS? 2012 MacBook Pros prefer BIOS for Windows, and some things (like graphics and sound) may not work properly if you install Windows using EFI mode.
 
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