Solved Fuzziness & no brightness control with 8.1 and Mac - Fixed

jderosa3

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If you have a Mac with Windows 8.1 you may notice that the text is fuzzy after installing the Boot Camp Support Software 5.0.5033... also th brightness controls do not work on the keyboard.

To fix this issue I did the following:


1) Go into the Device Manager and disable the Generic PnP Monitor under the Monitors item.
2) Go to AMD and download the 13.11 Beta AMD Catalyst™ Notebook Display Driver. Install.

After a reboot the display looked much better and the brightness works too! Hope this helps people out there trying to get 8.1 configured on their mac laptops. Enjoy!
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Apple MacBook Pro
    CPU
    i7
    Memory
    16GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Radeon HD 6700M
    Browser
    FireFox 23
    Antivirus
    Avast
I ran the other Catalyst (non beta) and it didn't work. This solved my problem. Thanks.

Awesome! Glad it worked... One thing to note... I foudn that just disabling the PnP monitor fixes this. Roll back you driver to the Boot Camp version because I will bet that your machine will not go to sleep properly.

Test and see... Let me know.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Apple MacBook Pro
    CPU
    i7
    Memory
    16GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Radeon HD 6700M
    Browser
    FireFox 23
    Antivirus
    Avast
I disabled the PnP monitor and installed the catalyst driver and everything worked as it should. I haven't had a problem since, and no problems with sleeping, ect. When the PnP monitor is enabled, it locks the screen brightness.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 8.1 on MBP
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