This command will list all the connected drives on your computer. Open up the Terminal and type: diskutil list Identify your USB Drive’s device location Once you have downloaded the package, use the installation package to get up and running with VirtualBox. If you don’t already have VirtualBox, it can be downloaded from their website. This bypasses the limitations imposed by the Microsoft Installer preventing us from installing Bootcamp the Apple way. We will be using VirtualBox to mount the USB drive as a virtual hard disk inside the Virtual Machine.
Install VirtualBoxĪre you wondering why VirtualBox is the next step? Don’t worry, we’re taking advantage of the virtualisation technology to kick start the installation of Windows 10.
For this reason you will need to use a separate drive to copy the Bootcamp Software into the new Bootcamp Installation.
Mac OS X cannot write to the Windows drive out of the box. Once this has downloaded copy it to a spare USB drive separate from SSD you will be using to install Bootcamp. Thanks to Reddit user sadalhayat for identifying this link.
Download Bootcamp Software for Windows 10Īpple offer a prepackaged driver installation for Bootcamp.Ĭlick here to download the Bootcamp 6.0 drivers for Windows 10 via the Apple CDN. The download is 3.7GB so it may take some time, the next steps will prepare your system to install Windows 10 to the USB SSD. If someone has some suggestion it would be really appreciated.Click here to access the Windows 10 download page.įollow the prompts to download Windows 10 installation disk. I apologise in advance in case this is already a closed case but I wasn't able to find anything more on this.Īt this point I really know what else to do. I am surely missing something, maybe I should upgrade/downgrade to a different macOS version, maybe I should install Windows in a different way or maybe there's simply no way to make this mac use both GPUs in Windows.
This thread was probably the closest situation to mine since I too have installed Windows in UEFI mode but no success again. Using gpu-switch script to force Windows to use the iGPU results in a black screen when booting Windows and then it restarts over and over so that I have to get into Safe Mode and run the dedicated.bat script. It showed up on rEFInd but it sort of kept looping and flashing some text on screen (it seemed like the procedure worked since somewhere there was a "press any button to continue" but clearly it didn't as it stuck again on that screen. Further searching on the forum took me here to aa15032261's modified version of apple_set_os.efi. As it was noted on the thread, I tried using the rEFInd spoofing function and yet I wasn't able to use my iGPU. Even with this I wasn't able to boot it from USB stick, so I proceeded to put it in /Volumes/EFI/custom but again it seemed stuck after the "set vendor to Apple Inc.". Then I found this and tried apple_set_os.efi.
Wasn't able to use automate-eGPU.efi on USB stick cause it didn't show up neither in rEFInd nor in the "option" menu so I put automate-eGPU.efi in /Volumes/EFI/custom folder and it did show up in rEFInd but it got stuck in the loading screen, forcing me to shut down through power button. So this led me here and to goalque's solution and this is the list of things that I have tried (unsuccessfully): Here's a screen of the iGPU not being usable: The goal is to get Windows to use the iGPU for soft tasks and the dGPU for gaming and heavy tasks. Windows sees correctly both the iGPU and dGPU in Device Manager but I'm not able to use the iGPU resulting in Windows using only the dGPU with consequent overheating, fan noise and battery drain. Followed this guide to override the DSDT in order to make the sound work in Windows Created a Partition Manually (as the Boot Camp procedure would result in a black screen with "no bootable device detected"), installed Windows 10 on it via USB and then installed all the bootcamp drivers. I'm getting here after a (way too) long journey with no success in enabling the iGPU on Windows 10 and I really hope someone in here can help me out as I'm running out of options.