Apple Drivers For Windows 7 32 Bit

[Cortney Voegele]

Anotherpage directs me to use the boot camp assistant, but it requires that I have a thumb drive (ready to be reformatted), and I must reboot into MacOS I'm not going to do that. In anticipation to some responses, we can argue about it if you want but it'll be a waste of energy.

I don't know why it's like this. Any other system would just have an installer and even an update agent for download. Is apple protecting IP and software licenses. Possible. Are they keeping users from downloading the wrong versions of stuff? Possible but there are other ways to do that.

I understand your concern about Bootcamp drivers. If you download install the wrong versions of stuff, that will nowhere going to help you. If you don't know which driver you need to install, it's better to take help of a good driver updater tool such as FixBit

If you are unable to download Boot Camp drivers on your Mac computer for some reason or want to download Boot Camp on a Windows PC, you can use a third-party tool. Such tool automatically finds the suitable driver for your Mac or Windows OS. You need not take the burden of "is it the right driver or not?"

Meanwhile, bootcamp needs you to reformat a thumb drive. Reformatting is a big deal. If something goes wrong, the user can lose ALL of their data. The instructions even go into troubleshooting for reformatting a drive, which is really digging in to helping a user complete a dangerous operation.

On the other hand, other companies have mastered the art of distributing installers that check your system for compatibility, or they work in a way that does not break your system if it is done improperly.

See Download and install Windows support software on your Mac - Apple Support for reference. The BCA Action menu uses your Mac's Model Identifier to give you the correct drivers for the Apple-specific drivers that you need. IN the past, with downloadable drivers, many attempts have been made to install incompatible drivers on the incorrect Windows versions. For example, many MacPro users use BC5.x driver on W10, even though they are not certified. Apple Software Update on Windows provides any updates to the base BC drivers package obtained from the Action Menu.

The BC5.x drivers are still downloadable from Install Windows 7 on your Mac using Boot Camp - Apple Support, which support W7/W8.1. BC5.x drivers do not support releases older than W7, which would require BC4 or BC3 drivers.

If apple is worried about users installing the wrong drivers, I'd respond from the world of Windows by saying "we call that Tuesday". Well actually installers are pretty good at detecting devices and doing things right nowadays without the help of using a model identifier, but I get it. Apple's going to limit the options for users to mess things up.

So I can't really find any documentation about what the latest version of the software is but I heard they've only incremented to 6.1. But I can't be sure because I'm stuck with whatever the BCA gave me. When I poke around on the BCA stick, the drivers are dated 2016.

On the internet I've seen news about 6.1 being released in Spring 2016, and Wikipedia says there was the latest version released in September 2017 and that's all the info I have. I'd say it's probable that the files on my memory stick are from 6.1 given their date stamp. (BTW I'm on a mid 2014 13" macbook pro).

At this point I'd like to blame the BCA procedure, but it looks like the Boot Camp Installer isn't programmed to check if the existing installation is old. Some version history note on Wikipedia says "only support new installation." Would they really mess with the users by doing this on purpose?

It looks like I'm going to have to find some hack to get the new drivers to install, or risk uninstalling everything I currently have for boot camp so I can get the installer to install, and cross my fingers that I can run my system in-between boot camp installations.

However, after running Windows Update, it still lacks drivers for WiFi, audio, the touchpad, and a few other devices. I can't seem to find those drivers available for download from any official sources. And all the info I can find about it assumes that I left the BootCamp partition intact (which I did not).

Open Apple Software Update for Windows and install available updates to get all the drivers. You will find additional details on the Mac models that support Windows 10 on the following link. You can check your computer model by selecting the Apple menu and choosing About This Mac when you are booted into OS X.

On my MacBook Pro (8,1 early 2011, MacOS 10.13) I first installed Win 7 via BootCamp and Win 7 install DVD. In Win 7 I installed the Win 7 drivers supplied by BootCamp. Then I downloaded MediaCretionTool from MS and with it I installed Win 10 over Win 7. After booting Win 10 Hardware Manager showed a few missing drivers. From -desktops/macbookpro8%2C1/1927 I downloaded and installed the following missing drivers:

Trent's answer is very useful ( ) if you chose not to use the bootcamp for the install.It works offline from another machine in case (like me) you don't have wifi drivers yet on the newly installed windows.You run the brigadier app (brigadier.exe) on the target machine to let it show the Mac model (ie: for a macbook air, early 2015 model the selection is 'MacBookAir7,2' ) and then run brigadier on your "donor" windows machine to download and package the drivers for easy deployment. (the tool will download the relevant driver packs from bootcamp site and will also repackage to be run on Windows)

I have macbook M1 and a ZWO camera (actually 2, ASI385MC and ASI294MC). I am trying to use Sharpcap on the mac. Since Sharpcap is Windows only software, I got Parallels, windows 11 (for the M1, it needs to be Windows 11 Insider Preview), installed Sharpcap in Windows and the Windows ZWO drivers for my camera.

The problem I am getting is that the ZWO driver doesn't seem to be working properly with Windows 11/Parallels. Parallels properly detect my camera, but even after installing the ZWO driver on Windows (it installs properly with no reported errors), neither Sharpcap, nor ZWO ASIStudio can detect the camera...

I am also interested in this and will be following this thread as I intent to move to Apple silicon soon but if it impacts the Window 11 VM and my ASI2600MC, I'd like to wait until something is in place before doing so.

But knowing that macs are moving to ARM and dropping intel, I am would think that ZWO is going to move into supporting windows ARM drivers. Surprisingly on mac (not in parallels), ASIStudio is able to connect to my ASI294MC without any issues so ZWO already has ARM code to talk to their camera... That code hasn't been included in their windows drivers but I suspect (hope?) it might come soon.

I really with there was a way for asistudio (running on the macos side) to just act as a bridge and feed its output directly into sharpcap (running on the parallels/windows side). There are a lot of useful features exposed by sharpcap and not found on asistudio (polar align, focus helper, better controls when stacking, etc...). I am using my ASI cameras for EAA and sharpcap is just too good of a tool there...

Obs30 : from what @w7ay implies, ASIStudio on the Mac runs via the Rosetta2 emulation (the 'invisible' emulator by apple which allows you to run x86-compiled apps on the arm arch). So technically ZWO didn't have to change anything in ASIStudio on the Mac for it work on M1.

Now with Parallels and Windows, things are different. We had to download a special version of windows compiled for M1. So there is no more transparent emulation at this point. Somebody from ZWO has to explicitly compile and distribute the driver for M1... Hoping that this happens soon...

IkeCam : well, unfortunately no, not if you are running windows 11 on a M1 Mac. Apple is slowly switching all their computers to use their new M1 chip (with is based on the ARM architecture) vs the old intel chip (based on the x86/x86-64 architecture). And the current windows drivers only seem to work on the x68 arch

The ASIAIR, however, is running on LINUX on an ARM architecture (RPi4, ARM A72, Broadcom BCM2712) and they offer SDKs for both iOS and Android, both ARM architectures. So this should be easy for them to offer native drivers for the M1. Probably just a matter of time.

The original Rosetta was released to bridge the gap at the time Apple switched from the Motorola/IBM processors (the Apple-IBM-Motorola, or AIM consortium) to the Intel processors. It first appeared in 2006, and Apple only finally stop supporting Rosetta in 2011.

Rosetta 2 is quite efficient (surprised even myself) as is, without having to run native code. The Intel version of Astro Pixel Processor on a M1 Mac Mini ran about twice as fast as it did natively on a dual Xeon Mac Pro from 2009 (that Mac Pro has 8 processors, each running 2+ GHz). One of my antenna modeling programs (purely number crunching and Cocoa graphics) also ran twice as fast, causing me not to even recompile it.

That being said, there are many libraries out there that are not yet "universal" (i.e., with both Intel and ARM components). So, to release an application for the Mac (e.g., ASIStudio), ZWO would need to release two different versions of ASIStudio for the Mac. You may have to wait until all the libraries that are used by ASIStudio are Universal before they release a version that will run natively on both x86_64 and ARM64 Macs.

Case in point is the ffmpeg library (libavcodec, etc), which is needed if you wish to create AVI files that MacOS and iOS AVFoundation libraries do not support. There is an ffmpeg library build for x86_64, and there is an ffmpeg build for ARM64, but there is no Universal library (library with components for both x86_64 and ARM64) -- and that is likely because ffmpeg itself depends on dozens and dozens of other open sourced libraries, and those need to also be Universal before ffmpeg can be Universal, and in turn for applications that use ffmpeg to be universal.

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