Hi All.
I have to say this new set of drivers Nvidia put out this time around are pretty bad...
I ended up getting a 1050 card a few days ago for my 10.12.5 Sierra HP 8300 3.20 I5/32 gigs of ram machine and was getting the black screen during the boot phase...the monitor would loose power....I spent hours trying to figure it out, threw the kitchen sink at it. Updated the profile to 14.2, changed the text to "Yes", literally did everything...still could not get it to work. I also injected the NVRAM emulation. Many thanks to all of you that have contributed. This is my first build. Picked up my HP 8300 for 69 bucks at a garage sale.
I ended up un installing the drivers and re installed them, used multibeast and injected the Nvidia boot flags alone with the other base settings, rebuilt the Kext cache, set the HDMI cable to the center HDMI connection(my card had two HDMI ports) and it worked.....I have no idea why or how because I felt like I had done all that before.
Here is the thing....it seems to work great with normal tasks....Ableton and all the plugins, Logic...smooth even....when I fired up Civilization V to test it on on a game it played for 5 minutes and the game quite.
Very frustrating...
Looked at the crash report and it was in fact the card/drivers that crash the game....it's not a hard crash where the system freezes...just the game immediately closes, the rest of the CPU works. Other apps open and close. It doesn't not require a hard boot. Hardware acceleration seems to be the cause. Any ideas?
I was using a Nvidia GT 730 2 gig card and it actually worked flawlessly with my build. I immediately regretted giving it away when I got my 1050.