grady.lynch Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 After scouring the forums, I have found nobody posting about the 6850 in OS X Lion. It is a great card, and I really am hoping to get it working. Also, if you've gotten it working in Snow Leopard, let me know! Any responses are welcome Thank You Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/264605-has-anyone-gotten-the-radeon-hd-6850-working-in-lion/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnullimaus Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 a Sapphire 6850 works for me OOB for both Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and Lion. I went for the Sapphire 6850 (and not another one or a stronger card) because i was looking for a good balance between power ( do not care so much the power consumption itself but the associated noise) and performance. Rewiews always stated low noise for the Sapphire that's why I chose it, and I am lucky with it. No enabler needed, also use GraphicsEnabler=no in chameleon, so i is plain vanilla. Had some trouble with it on Lion initially (garbled screen in Safari and other apps) but that was solved by disabling Quartz2DExtreme. AFAIK it is disabled by default anyway, that probably why no one else had this problem, but I had enabled it earlier because it did run fine with my previous card (a nvidia 8800GT). So you should have fun with it. regards, Stephan Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/264605-has-anyone-gotten-the-radeon-hd-6850-working-in-lion/#findComment-1729240 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordadmiral Drake Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 I can only agree with schnullimaus. I have exactly the same card and it works flawlessly OOTB. It's a good and safe choice Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/264605-has-anyone-gotten-the-radeon-hd-6850-working-in-lion/#findComment-1729259 Share on other sites More sharing options...
grady.lynch Posted August 4, 2011 Author Share Posted August 4, 2011 Thanks so much for the responses! What install method did you guys use to get Lion on your machines? I'm wondering because I think the install method makes a difference with whether or not the card works OOTB. Maybe not though, I really don't know. Either way, I'm curious as to what install method you guys used. Thanks again! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/264605-has-anyone-gotten-the-radeon-hd-6850-working-in-lion/#findComment-1729445 Share on other sites More sharing options...
grady.lynch Posted August 7, 2011 Author Share Posted August 7, 2011 What install methods did you use to get the Radeon HD 6850 working? [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] + [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]? kakewalk 4.0? please share Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/264605-has-anyone-gotten-the-radeon-hd-6850-working-in-lion/#findComment-1731062 Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnullimaus Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 I did not use a particular install method. I was running SnowLeo with chameleon, and I just ran the install from an install media, which I created on an USB HDD from the available tutorials in the internet. Basically, you - extract the plain Lion intstaller - restore the image it contains to the USB HDD / Stick => at this point you have a bootable install media for updating any original mac. => now, add the hackintosh related stuff to that media: - install the recent chameleon boot loader to the USB disk (that one for Lion) - copy your DSDT.aml and possibly extra extensions to /Extra on the USB medium - boot from that medium - run Lion install => now you have Lion installed on your HDD. Because it is a Hackintosh, it cannot yet boot from that HDD, therfore - again boot from USB medium - install chameleon on your Lion HDD - (if you did not upgrade a previous installation, install all required stuff in /Extra ) => I did an update and had all stuff for /Extra already in place. Though I did not follow the guide in every single step it was a very good reference for me (in german language). http://www.root86.org/showthread.php/3276-...-%28IntelPCs%29 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/264605-has-anyone-gotten-the-radeon-hd-6850-working-in-lion/#findComment-1731164 Share on other sites More sharing options...
grady.lynch Posted August 8, 2011 Author Share Posted August 8, 2011 Thanks for the response. I'll try that out Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/264605-has-anyone-gotten-the-radeon-hd-6850-working-in-lion/#findComment-1731690 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibr4him Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Well, it works OOB, but the apps (Geekbench, DVD player) still crash! Someone please share any info how to fix app crashes. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/264605-has-anyone-gotten-the-radeon-hd-6850-working-in-lion/#findComment-1737748 Share on other sites More sharing options...
netkas Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Well, it works OOB, but the apps (Geekbench, DVD player) still crash! Someone please share any info how to fix app crashes. install aty_init from here http://netkas.org/?p=880 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/264605-has-anyone-gotten-the-radeon-hd-6850-working-in-lion/#findComment-1737893 Share on other sites More sharing options...
^Andy^ Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 install aty_init from here http://netkas.org/?p=880 Or even simpler just boot with GraphicsEnabler=y (or set it in com.apple.Boot.plist). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/264605-has-anyone-gotten-the-radeon-hd-6850-working-in-lion/#findComment-1737934 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibr4him Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 install aty_init from here http://netkas.org/?p=880 WOW, THANKS A TON!!! That worked finally!! Will this also work for Asus 5670? Thanks again! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/264605-has-anyone-gotten-the-radeon-hd-6850-working-in-lion/#findComment-1738759 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibr4him Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Doesn't work for Asus 5670. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/264605-has-anyone-gotten-the-radeon-hd-6850-working-in-lion/#findComment-1738794 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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