Blackmagic Design Blackmagic DeckLink 8K Pro - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Blackmagic DeckLink 8K Pro is a MEDIA hardware device. The developer of this driver was Blackmagic Design. In order to make sure you are downloading the exact right driver the hardware id is PCI/VEN_bdbd&DEV_a14b.

1. Blackmagic Design Blackmagic DeckLink 8K Pro - install the driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Blackmagic Design Blackmagic DeckLink 8K Pro driver. The archive contains version 11.5.1.0 dated 2020-05-04 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control (UAC) is enabled please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will analyze your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your computer in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is digitally signed.
Size of this driver: 2143725 bytes (2.04 MB)
This driver was rated with an average of 5 stars by 71908 users.
This driver is compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 64 bits

2. How to use DriverMax to install Blackmagic Design Blackmagic DeckLink 8K Pro driver

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in just a few seconds and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Open DriverMax and push on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Blackmagic Design Blackmagic DeckLink 8K Pro driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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