Nvidia Beta Drivers (GT 650M)

[taedouni]

http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/46046

Please can someone with the 2012 Macbook Pro try to install it on their bootcamp partition and see if it works. I am close to upgrading from my early 2011 15" $2200 to the new loaded 15" non retina MBP. The only thing holding me back is driver support for the 650M.

 

[eikast]

bump

 

[killmoms]

I'd try this out but I have the Windows 8 Consumer Preview installed, not Windows 7. Aren't Windows 7 drivers supposed to be compatible though?

 

[acrafton]

http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/46046

Please can someone with the 2012 Macbook Pro try to install it on their bootcamp partition and see if it works. I am close to upgrading from my early 2011 15" $2200 to the new loaded 15" non retina MBP. The only thing holding me back is driver support for the 650M.

It fails. . .

 

[taedouni]

It fails. . .

This is sad news. I am going out of the country in 5-6 days so if a driver is not released by Thursday morning I will be forced to stick with my current Macbook Pro for probably another 1-2 months. It runs fine so that's not a big deal but I know that the longer I wait, the value of my current Macbook Pro will continue to lower.

 

[aaronw1986]

This is sad news. I am going out of the country in 5-6 days so if a driver is not released by Thursday morning I will be forced to stick with my current Macbook Pro for probably another 1-2 months. It runs fine so that's not a big deal but I know that the longer I wait, the value of my current Macbook Pro will continue to lower.

I don't understand the problem. Apple updated the bootcamp drivers.

 

[thomaskc]

The drivers that people are missing is only for Non osx correct? I don't understand why people don't just go to www.laptopvideo2go.com

 

[taedouni]

I don't understand the problem. Apple updated the bootcamp drivers.

Ya I just heard about that a little while after that post.
But I want to see how it is performing for some people. If it's a crappy driver then there is no need for me to upgrade. I am currently using 12.4 drivers for my 6750M and performance is pretty decent on high. But I want to just make one more purchase on a laptop that will last me a good 3-4 years. I know that Nvidia are great with their driver support (at least with their desktop GPUs) and with a 28nm GPU I feel that heat won't be as much as an issue as with the current 6750M. I already have a 512GB SSD so that won't be an issue. I'll just swap the storage on both laptops then sell the current one I am using for maybe $1400-1500.

 

[acrafton]

I don't understand the problem. Apple updated the bootcamp drivers.

Because Apple did not update the graphics driver.

 

[leenak]

Apple has released Nvidia drivers. If you go into the OSX Bootcamp assistant, click on download Windows support files and one of those will be Nvidia drivers. I did that last night, transferred over to my Windows partition through Parallels, booted up Windows and installed.