OpenGL woes on a MacBook Pro running Vista
Let’s keep this short: hooray for Mobility Modder! It seems that Apple only distributes quite old ATI drivers with their Boot Camp updates, and this was crashing at least one OGL program I was developing. Like most other notebook manufacturers, Apple also prohibits ATI from allowing their “reference drivers” (read: “most up-to-date/fast/stable drivers”) to be installed on Apple hardware. That’s where mobility modder comes in, providing an app to modify the latest ATI driver distribution to run on most notebooks.
So my code is working again.. yay! Now if only I could get back the 8 hours or so I spent debugging Apple’s driver update policies.
BTW, I wonder if this would also fix a crash I was having with FXComposer…
Tags: boot camp