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Do I dare to update ATI video drivers in XP/Boot Camp?
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Title says it all. From what I understand the Boot Camp drivers include video drivers from Apple in order to support my MacBook's resolution / card. But when I booted up the new Half Life (Episode One), it said my ATI drivers were out of date and asked if it could update them. I chose not to, fearing that I'd hose the drivers Boot Camp installed. Anyone know if it's okay?
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I suppose you could try and then always revert back, right?
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I'm with rickey. Windows allows you to revert to a previous state if an update fails or causes problems. So you're thinking "but if the video is hosed, how do I see what I'm doing to revert?" Simple-Safe Mode. During boot, hold down the F8 key to get a list of boot options, including several different Safe Mode choices. For this you'd only need the basic Safe Mode.
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You should (should being the operative word here) be fine. I just installed Vista Beta 2 on my MBP, which (aside from having a completely different version of the ATI drivers built-in) I upgraded the video drivers on myself, and the system still works fine.
That being said, if anything goes wrong, you should be able to boot into Safe Mode and either use System Restore to roll back, or just run the Macintosh Drivers Install disc again to get the correct version installed.
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Originally Posted by oranjdisc
Title says it all. From what I understand the Boot Camp drivers include video drivers from Apple in order to support my MacBook's resolution / card. But when I booted up the new Half Life (Episode One), it said my ATI drivers were out of date and asked if it could update them. I chose not to, fearing that I'd hose the drivers Boot Camp installed. Anyone know if it's okay?
In my quest to install a newer version of ATI's graphics drivers (so that EVE Online will work properly on my MBP 17"), I have installed all manner of ATI graphics drivers intended for diffeerent machines, leading to all sorts of disasterous results.
Every time I have been able to undo the damage by going into the device manager, selecting my display adapter, clicking on the driver tab, and clicking Roll Back. Or I have gone and used the Apple Boot Camp drivers CD (1.0 and 1.2) to install the drivers over again. I do this when I install two bad driver versions in a row without rolling back inbetween.)
Install away! You'll be okay.
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
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As has been pointed out, you should be able to upgrade ANY driver and not have it actually hurt anything. It may not do what you want, but it shouldn't disable the machine, and you can always roll back to the previous driver and erase your mistake.
And as Rufo points out, Safe Mode lets you boot with the barest minimum (and included with Windows itself) basic drivers, so you won't lose the ability to operate the machine because of a goobered driver installation.
Go for it! But report your success here-we want to know what works well and what works great!
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