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loui
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Adding:

/Extra/Extensions/NullCPUPowerManagement.kext

 

Will take care of the freezing problem.

 

Tested on GTX-450 and GTX-470 so far.

 

Ref: http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=...15&start=70

 

Worked on my 470. Thanks Tony.

 

rabbit.

 

Nice 1 rabbit, though i am sick of constantly changing out my 460 to the stable 9800 trying all these methods on this thresd i will give this a go.

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Thanks i might just do that.

 

Though your cinebench score seems a bit low for your card and cpu, and i,am assuming your 465 is a higher spec than my 460 1GB as i get 29-30 fps. I have read earlier in this thread that a cause of this could be to make sure that you are Mac pro 3.1 in your smbios.plist and not 4.1 etc..

 

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm actually getting about 27.99 - 29.6 fps in cinebench and about 5.6 in CPU scores. Should be ok? I have my model name set as Mac Pro 5,1 in my smbios.plist. I'm not sure if 4,1 or 3,1 is better?

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Can someone tell me how to set "Television" to "NO" thats actually causing an HDMI problem for me where as in VGA that problem is not present because VGA defaults Television to "NO". If people try to suggest me to use VGA i don't use it coz i don't get desktop scaling and there are some problems with white balance. Guide me how to make television to NO.

 

I got gtx480.

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So GTX 460 might be working but slower than, say, 8800GT?

 

A side note to earlier discussion. Fonts are generally much more smoother in OSX than in WIN7. Doesn't have much to do with colored AA pixels, but the fact that OS X renders fonts according to the vector data, as opposed to Windows which tries to "fix" readibility by aliging lines according to pixel grid. This pretty much destroys the typeface's form to achieve uber sharpness. So I don't really know in which situation WIN7 fonts are smoother than OSX? You can adjust the anti aliasing weight in WIN7, which makes the fonts look fatter though.

 

Sorry for the side track!

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what are the results on DaVinci? is there any gain or is it same story as cinebench... does the card work with no problem with resolve? is it hack or mac? (does DaVinci use opencl or opengl for rendering, do you know?)

 

thanks

Davinci is completely diferent to cinebench. Davinci use cuda power from the card, not opencl or opengl.

With only one graphic card, gtx480 has the double performance than one gtx285.

GTX480 only work with hacks, not macpro.

 

salu2

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Ok so I have a Asus GTX470 1280MB RAM wich I manage to get working with iAtkos disc but I was never able to get it to work with the vanilla method.

 

I had to put my geforce gtx260 in the computer and use the enabler for dvi/dvi, then change the card and install the nvidia Quadro driver...

 

The weird thing is that in the System Info it still says GeForce GTX 260 but if I run opengl Extensions info it says gtx 470...

 

Anyways, my only problem is that the OpenCL does not work, anyone has been able to get it working ?

 

Thanks

 

 

Gygabyte GA-EP45-UD3L motherboard, Intel Q9550 CPU, 8gig ram

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TH3L4UGH1NGM4N
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@ ari kuchar Where does the KP backtrace to? (meaning like what kext had dependencies that failed during boot it might be helpful in solving the random KP issue)

 

And when you say "boost" if you mean improve the fps in like say Cinebench, you could use the MacPro 3,1 as others have mentioned in the thread already if you have yours set to 4,1 or 5,1.

 

As for the sleep, do you use sleepenabler or anything or do you use a Pmversion string in your boot plist?

 

I've been following this topic for a while because my ati card lacks CUDA which I need in premiere pro \=

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Sasan
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Finally I could get rid of lags and non-smooth UI on my EP45T-UD3LR with Nvidia GT430 :

The default MacPro for P45 boards is MacPro 3,1 which doesn't load AppleGraphicsPowerManagement.kext and it is a common sense that MacPro3,1 runs on full performance, IT IS a WRONG BELIEF.

 

What I have done to get rid of lags:

1- put a valid MacPro4,1 smbios ( you can grab it from tony [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]) in Extra folder.

2- delete AppleTyMCEDriver.kext from S/L/E

3- edit the info.plist of AppleGraphicsPowerManagement.kext and edit the deviceid for GT430 under the MacPro4,1. 

	<key>Vendor10deDevice0de1</key>
			<dict>
				<key>Heuristic</key>
				<dict>
					<key>ID</key>
					<integer>0</integer>
					<key>IdleInterval</key>
					<integer>250</integer>
					<key>SensorOption</key>
					<integer>1</integer>
					<key>SensorSampleRate</key>
					<integer>4</integer>
					<key>TargetCount</key>
					<integer>5</integer>
					<key>Threshold_High</key>
					<array>
						<integer>93</integer>
						<integer>93</integer>
						<integer>93</integer>
						<integer>100</integer>
					</array>
					<key>Threshold_Low</key>
					<array>
						<integer>0</integer>
						<integer>97</integer>
						<integer>97</integer>
						<integer>97</integer>
					</array>
				</dict>

 

4- run the kext utility and restart.

 

Now you will have smooth UI and no lag at all.

Here is the Cinebench score:

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TH3L4UGH1NGM4N
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the AppleTyMCEDriver.kext seems to cause a KP with certain mac pro identities (aka 3,1 4,1 5,1 etc) I had to remove it myself also to properly boot. As for the Apple GPM kext , when you edit it and place your ID's in there are you able to sleep the comp? I'd assume doing the edit would negate the power management altogether and render the sleep function useless across the gpu but then again I could wrongly be assuming this...

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Sasan
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the AppleTyMCEDriver.kext seems to cause a KP with certain mac pro identities (aka 3,1 4,1 5,1 etc) I had to remove it myself also to properly boot. As for the Apple GPM kext , when you edit it and place your ID's in there are you able to sleep the comp? I'd assume doing the edit would negate the power management altogether and render the sleep function useless across the gpu but then again I could wrongly be assuming this...

AppleTyMCEDriver.kext is needed for i7 CPU type so it must be deleted for rest of CPUs to prevent Kernel Panic.

I dont use sleep functionality and dont know whether it works or not after editing the kext.

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TH3L4UGH1NGM4N
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Oh I see it's needed for the i7's.

 

If you don't mind could you try out the sleep to see if it works or not because I'm planning on buying a 470 myself but my current ati card sleeps fine in the system and I rarely turn off my comp or restart unless I need to flush the ram out.

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Sasan
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Oh I see it's needed for the i7's.

 

If you don't mind could you try out the sleep to see if it works or not because I'm planning on buying a 470 myself but my current ati card sleeps fine in the system and I rarely turn off my comp or restart unless I need to flush the ram out.

Yep, works with SleepEnabler.

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Yep, works with SleepEnabler.

hi sasan,

i have a big problem with my Zotac GT430 to get the right Install-Methode,

please can you tell me how get it works fine in my System:

 

- GA-H55-UD3H

- Core i3 530

- 4gig DDR3

- Zotac GT430

- SATA Disk and DVD

 

i installed just now a fresh System... in the minetime i writing these Words

 

must i patched the Device-ID in the GF100HAL.kext ?

 

if i installed the org. NVIDI-Driver Retail 256.01.xxxx they says it is not for this macine

 

must i installed the CUDA-Driver ???

 

thanks for help

Harry

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Vic-Viper
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Now I'm getting nervous. I had 2x 260s with SLi bridge working with full acceleration on 3 monitors running. Got tired of SLi hassles in Windows so I sold them for my 580 GTX (coming tomorrow). To put it simply, it was a {censored} getting both cards to run with each other. I'm on 10.6.3 and it looks like I need to update. Even then, I have yet to find one shred of evidence that anyone has a working 580 GTX setup.

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TH3L4UGH1NGM4N
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@ Vic-Viper Judging from what I read in the 580 thread, it doesn't seem like anyone at all is having luck with the card I would have probably stuck with the 2 260's or opted or a 4xx card but the 5xx don't seem to and looking at netkas's site there is no mention of having a 5xx card working with acceleration. Sadly, you might have to bum it out in win or use os x without acceleration until the situation changes.

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Vic-Viper
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@ Vic-Viper Judging from what I read in the 580 thread, it doesn't seem like anyone at all is having luck with the card I would have probably stuck with the 2 260's or opted or a 4xx card but the 5xx don't seem to and looking at netkas's site there is no mention of having a 5xx card working with acceleration. Sadly, you might have to bum it out in win or use os x without acceleration until the situation changes.

 

I got a Macbook Pro just for times like these. Just sad to see my 2x 260 setup go.

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