Boot Camp Now Supports Vista SP1 64-BIT on Macbook Pro!

[jdaco6]

So, are people noticing any differences between 64 and 32 vista?

In awnser to your question from a personal point of view I have noticed some quite big differences between the two! The 64bit version is a lot more stable and reminds me of a Mac OS stability mixed with the compatibility of Windows!
I am not suggesting that the 32bit version is bad but I think they way Microsoft is handling drivers with the 64bit version is alot better, they have to meet certain critera and some even have to be cheaked by Microsoft themselves this stops OEM computer makers from making 'cheap' drivers that make the computer crash, that being said Dell and others seem to think they are going to get round that by shipping the 32bit version forever lol

Anyway thats my thoughts!

 

[Denarius]

I'd sure love to get my hands on the wireless card driver and the NVidia driver for the Core 2 Duo MBP on 64-bit Vista. Only bits I need to get working now. Sigh...

Not that I would encourage anyone to put them on a torrent or anything of course.

 

[Denarius]

In the end, this patch from Apple didn't work for me. I couldn't get the files to install or extract, Vista kept giving me an error. Instead I found Bootcamp 2.0.1 as a torrent on some site but it doesn't contain nVida drivers for the MBP....

That's because that torrent, which I also got was the Mac Pro version not MacBook Pro I think. You never know though, the MBP version may just turn up on the torrents one of these days... hint, hint, hint.

 

[Denarius]

Hi folks,

Just to let you know I have now sorted out driver issues on a late 2007 MBP Pennryn 15" 2.2GHz with a windows experience score of 4.8. This is what I did.

1)Got the BootCamp 64-bit drivers and installed.
2)Got the BootCamp 2.1 update and installed.

This left me with 2 issues: no driver for the wireless card at all and just the Standard VGA Adapter driver for the Graphics card. Not good enough! So I continued:

3)Having Ethernet now available, I plugged in to my router directly in order to connect to the internet. At this stage I went to the Start menu and right-clicked on Computer. I then clicked Device Manager and right-clicked on the network adapter with the exclamation mark and clicked update driver. Doing an automatic driver search got the correct driver from the internet. Wireless is now go!
4)For graphics I went here and downloaded the Drivers link and the Modded Inf link. I extracted the drivers and it moaned that there was no compatible software available. At this point I cut the modded inf file I downloaded and pasted it into the same directory as the drivers.
5)Now go to start, right-click computer and click Device Manager. Go into Display Adapter, right-click Standard VGA Adapter and click Update Driver. Select to update manually and then Let Me Pick From A List Of Drivers On My Computer. If it asks for the type, choose Display Adapter, otherwise skip to click Have Disk, navigate to the NVidia drivers directory and double-click the modded inf file that you downloaded earlier. A list of drivers appears and I selected the last offering for 8600 GT.

I was a little concerned about the lack of an 'M' in the name, but it works fine, so what the hell.

Hope somebody finds this useful.

Mind you, if someone out there has an 'official' driver for the 8600M GT that might have come with a newer MBP then I'm sure there would be plenty of people grateful if you were to make it available. There must be one otherwise Apple wouldn't have declared official support for early 2008 onwards.