Here is some information about running Windows 8 64bit on a MacBook Pro (my model is v. 2008; not officially supported).
Brightness adjustmentnot working
If after installing NVIDIA drivers the brightness adjustment does no longer work, you need to create a registry entry:
- Open regedit
- Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > CurrentControlSet > Control > Class
- Make sure "Class" is selected
- Ctrl-F to open find. Search for "nvidia"
- In the folder "0000" that was just found create a DWORD with name "EnableBrightnessControl" and value "1"
- Reboot
From:
http://catch404.net/2013/07/brightness-unchangeable-in-windows-8-on-a-macbook-with-nvidia/
Boot Camp drivers
I installed Windows 8 on an unsupported machine. Thus installation directly from BootCamp was unavailable - I had to install manually by booting from the Windows 8 CD. Later in Windows 8 it is easy to do the driver installation manually, using the latest Boot Camp software from:
https://www.apple.com/chde/support/bootcamp/
At the time of writing this, the following downloads were the most actual:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1720 (V 5.1.5621 for old models)
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1721 (V 5.1.5640 for 2013 models)