Unstable Video: 2020 MBP in Bootcamp?

[iRun26.2]

On many of the display resolutions (1680x1050 @ 125% for example) in Boot Camp, I have my screen (LCD) flashing wildly.

Has anybody seen anything similar? To me Boot Camp is unusable!

 

[iRun26.2]

Never mind. If I chose the recommended setting it is stable. Strange it doesn’t work for all settings.

 

[iRun26.2]

I'm very much leaning towards not even using boot camp. It's slightly faster than Parallel's... but it is such a pain!

 

[mick2]

BootCamp drivers have been somewhat neglected by Apple in recent years, and are nowadays poorly optimised for Windows on Mac hardware. I'm talking things like battery management, CPU power state optimisations, fan curves, TB peripherals and external display support; Apple has long de-prioritised updating and improving these which makes for a poor experience running windows on recent Mac hardware, compared to running it on a real Windows machine.

So you either trade the slight perormance hit for the convenience of a VM (is what you're doing really *that* time/speed sensitive?), or you go the bootcamp route for the best possible raw CPU throughput / direct access to hw and live with the patchy driver support in other areas like external monitors, thermals and battery life.

 

[iRun26.2]

BootCamp drivers have been somewhat neglected by Apple in recent years, and are nowadays poorly optimised for Windows on Mac hardware. I'm talking things like battery management, CPU power state optimisations, fan curves, TB peripherals and external display support; Apple has long de-prioritised updating and improving these which makes for a poor experience running windows on recent Mac hardware, compared to running it on a real Windows machine.

So you either trade the slight perormance hit for the convenience of a VM (is what you're doing really *that* time/speed sensitive?), or you go the bootcamp route for the best possible raw CPU throughput / direct access to hw and live with the patchy driver support in other areas like external monitors, thermals and battery life.

One also needs to factor in the time it takes to leave Windows and boot back into OS X. I chose to go the route of Parallels rather Boot Camp. More time is saved if I can easily work on other things while waiting for my Parallels synthesizer to process my input schematic.