New official boot camp driver for 5600M and (5500M*)

Dont do what hes talking about, but the best driver for you is the January 2020 Blue driver. That is the best for the MBP 16" with the 5300/5500. Trust me its your best best at this time.

Can confirm hmstyles method works fine on base 5300m / 4gb model. I've avoided the bootcamp drivers on here as i'm a bit cautious about my GPU but this official 5600m manual driver install as mentioned above does work. Witcher 3, Fallout 4 and Crysis 3 all working perfectly in full screen mode 1920 x 1200 at about 60fps on medium / high. AMD really need to get their act together on the official 5300m / 5500m drivers to give us full screen at lower resolutions but this works till the day they do get updated.

Hi,

i am using the AMD 5600 card with the official bootcamp driver. But if you know Apple the driver Version is old.
Is there a way to use the new AMD Drivers for the 5600 card?

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I had issues with gpu scaling not working just like most people resulting in a small window in the top left (no changing the windows resolution and playing in windowed mode did not work. Upon changing the windows resolution, it would resize the screen for half a second and jump back to 4k immediately.
Also i experienced throttling severly to the point where my cpu and gpu were simply cold, and nonetheless, spot on, after about half an hour the performance dropped in half untill i turned the machine off again.

I used the official bootcamp drivers, having these issues, as well as the 5500m official drivers from the amd website.
I then switched to both the red and blue versions of this website which were great. they fixed the throttling issues mostly for me, but i still had scaling issues. And worse, if i change the gpu-scaling in the blue or red driver settings, i get a black screen causing a crash and reboot. Somehow the drivers remembered the gpu scaling setting, not allowing me to ever install them again. even cleaning with DDU several times, as soon as i install the red or blue drivers, a black screen on boot with a crash ensued. Probably because it remembered me turning on GPU scaling.

I saw the drivers on the AMD website had a new release for the 5600m but not the 5500m. cue my disappointment. i tried installing them but failing.
I then tried the workaround in this post and low and behold. scaling works perfectly. i can natively change the windows resolution again. and fullscreen gaming at lower res also works. the drivers also seem to have no issue whatsoever with overheating or crashing on my MBP 2019 november 5500m 4gb, even though they are meant for the 5600m.
Performance seems to be slightly better as well than i had with the april red driver up to the moment i couldnt run it anymore.


zxmustang this entire website is full of enthousiasts trying unofficial drivers, and you're telling people for whom it works better to stick with the 'safe' unofficial drivers than spoofing a signature from official drivers. I state my experience above just like you, unfortunately with very different results. the more people like us, the better our understanding of proper drivers for everyone, regardless of risk. I genuinely miss the red driver settings and hope the next version can integrate whatever version of driver is out on amd's own official website right now. because for some people, it works without any bugs for several weeks now, having been tested through its paces.

I honestly wonder what caused this to not work for you, im willing to give you all the details of what i did and what specs i have to make it work for you too.


flasher111 amd releases the official unmodified bootcamp drivers on their own website www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/apple-boot-camp

Hi all bootcamp´ers

Can someone make a guide to install the new 5600m drivers? I have the base MB16 (i7 & 5300m) and want to try that driver out

Regards

Totally agree. People on this forum need to understand that if we want to try and find a fix for throttling issues, we need to use the scientific method, not the “it seems like...”.

I tested the 5600M drivers, I can tell there’s no temp/throttling improvement while gaming, compared to the January Red V2 (and all other drivers actually because this is not a driver issue.) GPU always on the high 70°C and throttling when it reaches 80°C.

Also, installing the 5600M drivers I had backlighting blinking when rebooting on Mac OS and had to do a clean install of Mac OS to get rid of it. So be careful! The only clue I have telling me it’s 5600M driver and not a hardware problem is that I Never experienced it before with other drivers and when I boot in safe mode the issue disappeared. (For more details, check out my thread “ Windows drivers harmed Mac OS.”)