Fu**ing s**t macbook pro and bootcamp and egpu

[arnljot]

Yeah,

I'm at my wits end with this.

I install win10 nicely on my extrernal drive. If I plug in my egpu then the install goes bad. It says it'll enable another gpu and then the screen goes black. The machine will boot and start, but it's now unable to display anything.

Then I install win10 to the usb, and then don't install bootcamp, but try to install the amd drivers for the external vega, but then amd installer says it can't detect amd hardware.

Ok, so I I install it all over again and install bootcampdrivers.com modded amd package, so far so good. But alas no, at restart it won't find any bootable media if the razer core x egpu is plugged in. Plugging it after boot makes win10 blue screen.

So then, many variations of this. But all end with black or blue screen.

A reminder to my self: Never again an apple computer. Never.

 

[iainjh]

ive never tried bootcamp so unable to help sorry. But I find windows under VMware Fusions works wonderfully, might be worth a go before you jack it in. Best of luck

 

[arnljot]

https://egpu.io/boot-camp-egpu-setup-guide/

Reading this, I see it's such a problematic path that it's just not worth it.

 

[johnklos]

A reminder to my self: Never again an apple computer. Never.

Who decided to run Windows on an Apple computer? If you're blaming Apple for the lack of proper Windows operation, then you're doing it wrong.

 

[arnljot]

Well. It's a need for me, one they even "support" by giving bootcamp.

The idiotic thing is that they only support AMD gpu's on OSX. And they don't support AMD gpus under bootcamp. Why? Because they can't be ar$ed to provide a decent compatible win driver for their AMD gpu. It's lazy of them.

So I needed both osx(preference) and win(requirement) for my work laptop. Later I needed bigger/more screen real estate. So I bought the 49" ultrawide samsung. Now already here there was a problem. It was a disappointment that Apple only supports AMD, and not all the latest cards. Then, when I got the Vega64 lo and behold. Due to a limitation in OSX most ultrawides don't get recognized so you need a hack (SwitchResX) to get full benefit from the screen.

And then, when I need to go to Win because that one piece of software I want, I need to un-dock my laptop because I don't want two egpus (an AMD for OSX and an Nvidia for windows), because if I plug in the egpu under win, the machine goes dark...

I've been feeling cramped under osx for a long time, and this was just the straw that broke this camels neck. Oh yeah... We have encrypted removable media. Oh how nice all those messy osx metafiles play with them...

 

[quantum8]

Is it a requirement that you run Windows full screen too? Why not run inside a VM?

It doesn't sound like you have a straight forward set-up. eGPUs are certainly in their infancy support wise.

Just get work to get you a Windows laptop and use that.

 

[StanMoonie]

I would not have even bothered, running windows on a Mac sucks. I would have just gone out and bought a real cheap windows computer laptop and called it a day. I own several Macs and when I start college several classes you had to have a windows computer I went out and bought one because I did not want to mess with the problems and did not want to take a chance of losing any work I did. Good luck!