Is your display distorted when running Windows 10 on your Mac? If so, there’s nothing to worry about because that’s a known issue and Apple has now offered a simple fix for it.
The problem: display distortion
Mac computers with AMD Radeon graphics might see the right side of their screen flickering and being distorted when running Windows 10. On external displays, the distortion might affect the entire screen. Another related issue: the Windows 10 installer may say that your Mac isn’t ready for this version of Windows 10 because it has an old AMD graphics driver.
According to anew support documentthe iPhone maker published last Saturday, affected users might need to install updated AMD graphics drivers for Windows to fix the problem.
Checking the version of your AMD drivers
To check the version of your AMD graphics drivers, follow these steps
1)Start up your Mac inWindows.
2)Open yourRadeon settingsin one of the following ways:
3)In your Radeon settings, click theSystem tab, then click theSoftwaretab.
The version number is shown under Driver Packaging Version.
The fix: reinstall AMD drivers
Apple providesthese steps to download and install the latest AMD graphics drivers:
You can now install the latest Windows 10 drivers from AMD.
The workaround: reduce display resolution
But what if you’re having this issue when using Windows 10 on an external display connected to your Mac but there are no updated graphics drivers from AMD at the time? You can, of course, wait until AMD has released new drivers to fix this issue, but who wants to wait?
Alternatively, venture into your display settings to reduce the external display resolution.
Apple cautions that this workaround doesn’t work on its own Pro Display XDR and on LG’s UltraFine 4K and UltraFine 5K displays.
Boot Camp drivers
When using Boot Camp to install Windows 10 on your Mac, one of the final steps involves installing Apple’s Boot Camp driver packages for things like mice, keyboards, displays and so forth. The AMD drivers included in Boot Camp are written by Apple and that’s OK because they provide better compatibility when using Windows on your Mac than AMD’s generic drivers.
But if you hatea this situation, be sure tocheck out the website bootcampdrivers.comwhere you can find unofficial turbo-charged AMD graphics drivers for Macs running Boot Camp.
