New Nvidia drivers fix glitchy Fermi cards in Mountain Lion

[thelostswede]

Last week Nvidia released its first "Mac Pro" graphics card drivers for OS X 10.8.1. We've confirmed that these new drivers fix all of the issues with Nvidia GeForce GT 430, GTS 450, GTX 550Ti, GT 620, GT 630 Graphics Cards. If you have one of these cards, you will benefit from the new drivers. Nvidia also released an updated CUDA driver that added official support for the GK104 GPU, which is one of the many Kepler SKUs from Nvidia.

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Thanks to forum user vczilla, there is also a working OpenCL patch for the 304.00.00f20 drivers from Nvidia, as OpenCL support needs to be patched into the new drivers. This will patch the GeForceGLDriver.bundle and re-enable OpenCL support. Simply open Terminal and run the Perl script below. If you're unsure about terminal commands, wait a bit- we're adding all of this to the next version of MultiBeast. Let us know in the comments how these experimental drivers work for you.

[COLOR=#000000]sudo perl -pi -e '$c+=s/\x8b\x81\x1c\x0c\x00\x00\xeb\x06\x8b\x81\x20\x0c\x00\x00/\xb8\x02\x00\x00\x00\x90\xeb\x06\xb8\x00\x00\x00\x00\x90/; END { printf "%s: %d substitution%s made.\n",($c==1 ? "Success" : "Error"),$c,(!$c || $c>1 ? "s" : ""); $?=($c!=1); }' /System/Library/Extensions/GeForceGLDriver.bundle/Contents/MacOS/libclh.dylib[/COLOR]

Download:
Nvidia Quadro & GeForce Mac OS X Driver Release 304.00.00f20
Nvidia CUDA 5.0 for Mac

Related:
Nvidia GeForce GT 430, GTS 450, GTX 550Ti, GT 620, GT 630 Graphics Cards Issues in Mountain Lion
Nvidia 550Ti Sleep / Wake / Freeze Thread
Updated Nvidia CUDA 5.0 for Mac Released

 

[tamorgen]

Is this needed/advised for any of the other 5xx cards? I have a GTX 570 card in mine

 

[tonymacx86]

Tamorgen- good question- no- this is only for the cards that have sleep/wake glitch as specified in the post. You can install them- as they're pretty much universal, but you will most likely not have any performance benefit, and there may be upgrade difficulties later on. You're best served holding off on them unless you need them.

 

[nemix]

Does this improve or fix anything with the 660ti and final cut x?

 

[macMag]

thanks guys!

 

[bcsimons]

When I try and run the installer, I get this error.

Unsupported System
"This computer will not support GeForce or Quadro Mac OS X edition cards."

What exactly would be causing this and is there anything I can do to fix it?

 

[dxmorgan]

doesn't work for me. Asus GT430. i've got white screen after apple logo. i had to NVIDIARecovery (thanks qb84) from single user mode to boot in my mac. any help?

p.s. i try to boot with npci=0x3000/2000 pcirootuid=0/1 -x -v. my actual boot flags are npci=0x3000 -v

help?

 

[rohith]

Article: New Nvidia drivers fix glitchy Fermi cards in Mountain Lion

When I try and run the installer, I get this error.

Unsupported System
"This computer will not support GeForce or Quadro Mac OS X edition cards."

What exactly would be causing this and is there anything I can do to fix it?

Your system definition must be MacPro3,1, 4,1 or 5,1 to install this driver

 

[rohith]

Article: New Nvidia drivers fix glitchy Fermi cards in Mountain Lion

Tamorgen- good question- no- this is only for the cards that have sleep/wake glitch as specified in the post. You can install them- as they're pretty much universal, but you will most likely not have any performance benefit, and there may be upgrade difficulties later on. You're best served holding off on them unless you need them.

hi tony can u clarify " there may be upgrade difficulties later on" iam using GTX 560 (non TI)

 

[McTavish]

Article: New Nvidia drivers fix glitchy Fermi cards in Mountain Lion

When I try and run the installer, I get this error.

Unsupported System
"This computer will not support GeForce or Quadro Mac OS X edition cards."

What exactly would be causing this and is there anything I can do to fix it?

Change system definition to Mac Pro and everything works