Gringo Vermelho Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Yes, if you are able to play Team Fortress 2 then you have working hardware accelerated graphics. Quick question. I have been reading through the past couple posts, and I kept seeing the words "Quadro drivers". Is that what is in the Nvidia update on tonymacx86's site? Or is that something different. From what I gather, the "TonyMac drivers" are nothing but a repackaged installer for the same drivers that you can download from nvidia and install yourself. As has been mentioned several times already in this thread, the drivers from nvidia will install just fine if your model identifier is MacPro3,1, 4,1 or 5,1. If not, you can simply extract the three .pkg files from inside the installer and run them one by one. Right-click, show contents. It's that simple. I said: The first post in this thread is old and full of workarounds and files that aren't necessary anymore. what do you mean by that? everything i said there is still required, namely: bootloader, graphicsenabler, kexts. Yes of course, but I meant exactly what I said, personally I don't have a problem with it but I can see how the post can be confusing to someone who's new to this hobby and it was in that light I said what I said. I hope I haven't offended you, if I have I'm sorry, that wasn't my intention. About the CUDA cores not being used, I was running something from nvidias CUDA SDK that was supposed to report the CUDA capabilities of the card and not all 336 CUDA cores were shown so that's what I went with. Maybe it was an older version, I don't know. If you say it's really working then great, one less fermi-annoyance. I have edited my post and removed that statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blah101 Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 So, assuming I can run Team Fortress 2, then I don't have to worry about this thread that I was reading? http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=12771 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 In the first post of that thread is a list of things that didn't work to begin with for the poster of the thread. If these things all work for you and you can play Team Fortress 2, you're good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmf Posted April 1, 2011 Author Share Posted April 1, 2011 jackpot! some notes here: finally opencl support opencl 1.1 is supported, driver version is still clh 1.0 though, and no caches or dp opengl 3.2 is also supported on fermi enabling multisampling in glview will result in broken/distorted frame buffer general observation: it's fast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diwad Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 So any way to use it on snow leo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgegeorge Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 jackpot! Are you able to get FCP Preview window to properly display video and Embedded QT videos to play on Lion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
real3x Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 Current Fermi Status : 1 more thing - no rotation display, it's check as supported but on my gtx460 it give me a black screen with the mouse cursor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rominator Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 First Impressions, Lion DP2...GTX470 about 30% slower than in SL. Guess we should be glad it works. Going to try 480 for speed, and 460 to see if "freeze" gone. Stay tuned. UPDATE GTX460 has working rotation but afterward i couldn't use keyboard. Also Textedit not working...but i used Lion 2 to update Lion 1. Will see if i can get 460 to freeze. Guess we will need to see what happens if lion drivers go to SL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
real3x Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 Some good news here, Im dowloading the DP2 right now, i'll test drivers on sl, i've a test partition. I 'll report back when it's done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmf Posted April 1, 2011 Author Share Posted April 1, 2011 i found another issue: expose is broken but no problems with textedit or safari. games that work: civ4, angry birds, bf2 (old cider?) games that don't work (black screen, no screen update, ...): chess, da2 (latest cider?), any game if multisampling is enabled Are you able to get FCP Preview window to properly display video and Embedded QT videos to play on Lion? sry, i don't have fcp, but i'll test video acceleration later ... and i don't expect lion drivers to work in sl, but thats another thing i'll test later i also backported the chameleon rc5 fermi changes to netkas lion chameleon rc3 (why did he use rc3 anyway?), i'll post the diff and binaries when i did some more testing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rominator Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 on gtx460, Expose fine looks like we have lots of things to discover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmf Posted April 1, 2011 Author Share Posted April 1, 2011 cinebench: i can smoothly play back 4 1080p mp4 streams, but i can't say if cpu usage is too high for that (video accel or not?)? edit: nvidia nbody benchmark: oclNBody-SP, Throughput = 432.4507 GFLOP/s, Time = 0.00273 s, Size = 7680 bodies, NumDevsUsed = 1, Workgroup = 256 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgegeorge Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 Does this video play for you? http://www.unlimitedloveinstitute.org/media/video-ebru.html If it works, there's a good chance FCP does too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmf Posted April 1, 2011 Author Share Posted April 1, 2011 #################### edit: here is the fermi bootloader for lion: binaries: lion_chameleon_rc3_fermi.zip diff against http://netkas.org/?p=660: fermi.diff.txt i added lots of new fermi device ids (hopefully all, but if i missed something, please say so). edit 2: meh, wrong, both 500 series device id ranges are not included in NVDAGF100Hal.kext. the only 500 series card that would work with NVDAGF100Hal.kext is "GeForce GTX 550 Ti" which pretty much seems to be a GTS 450 ... @any 500 series user: be aware of that and add your device id to NVDAGF100Hal.kext before testing. Does this video play for you?http://www.unlimitedloveinstitute.org/media/video-ebru.html If it works, there's a good chance FCP does too. yes, it plays. quicktime cpu usage is ~12% edit 3: just installed flash 10.3 beta2 and youtube flash 1080p is really fast (instant fullscreen and play back works), cpu usage is ~70 - 75% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rominator Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 the unlimited love qt is working for me now in lion2 with gtx460 and it ran all night, never froze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diwad Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 Any love on snow leopard with lion's nvhal100? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmf Posted April 1, 2011 Author Share Posted April 1, 2011 Any love on snow leopard with lion's nvhal100? sadly no. oddly enough, kexts are loaded (or can be loaded successfully with kextutil), but no good results. replaced both geforce* and nvda* -> no gl/qe/ci/res replaced nvda* -> blue screen with mouse after boot, no login screen i guess there are too many connections with other kexts and frameworks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rominator Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 sadly no. oddly enough, kexts are loaded (or can be loaded successfully with kextutil), but no good results.replaced both geforce* and nvda* -> no gl/qe/ci/res replaced nvda* -> blue screen with mouse after boot, no login screen i guess there are too many connections with other kexts and frameworks. Hi, could you specify which kexts you tried exactly? There are several and would be great if you could list which ones you used. LIon DP2 has few actual Nvidia kexts, but there are also bundles. Did you move any of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmf Posted April 1, 2011 Author Share Posted April 1, 2011 "both geforce* and nvda*": all kexts/bundles/folders with the prefix "geforce" and "nvda" "nvda*": all kexts/bundles/folders with the prefix "nvda" any other combination wouldn't make much sense, since, again: everything is connected. and it appears even using nvdaresman and nvdagf100hal alone doesn't work with geforce kexts/bundles of another driver version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rominator Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 OpenCL Goodness !!! And still no freezes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blah101 Posted April 2, 2011 Share Posted April 2, 2011 OpenCL Goodness !!! And still no freezes. Does this mean there is a freeze free solution right around the corner? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmf Posted April 2, 2011 Author Share Posted April 2, 2011 OpenCL Goodness !!! And still no freezes. edit: more particles, more flops, less fps, more noise ... had to scale up the gflops meter btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blah101 Posted April 2, 2011 Share Posted April 2, 2011 Yes. Obtain Lion Developer Preview 2. Install. I assume that comes with full acceleration. This is great news! However, I can wait till Lion is on store shelves. I plan on getting it anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diwad Posted April 2, 2011 Share Posted April 2, 2011 Damn. I was hoping for opencl in snow Leo:/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch_de Posted April 2, 2011 Share Posted April 2, 2011 OpenCL Goodness !!! And still no freezes. Great ! Can you use the new OpenCL Luxbenchmark also ? (Same Code base as SmallLuxGPU, but measures an fixed time (120 sec) for an fixed scene to render. http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/LuxMark#Download (DL MAx OS X Version) Here some results (Win, Linux, OS X): http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/LuxMark_Results You can post your OS X results here to show others in this forum: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...2874&st=120 (Main OpenCL Benchmark Thread) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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