NVIDIA Releases Mountain Lion 10.8.3 Graphics Drivers

[emack]

Article: NVIDIA Releases Mountain Lion 10.8.3 Graphics Drivers

Thanks for posting this info about new drivers, I will test it later... But much more important is a release of updated CUDA Drivers, compatible with 10.8.4, what I am testing right now... You can find updated CUDA drivers here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cuda-5.0.59-driver.html

Enjoy!

You seeing any benifit from the new CUDA? Has anyone installed this? Any reports on performance or problems?

Thanks

 

[Tsunade]

Article: NVIDIA Releases Mountain Lion 10.8.3 Graphics Drivers

You need to add "nvda_drv=1" to boot args and reboot. Then you will be running on the new driver. NVDAGF100HalWeb 8.14.11 (313.01.01f03)

Can you give us steps

 

[ablyes]

how can we check which driver we use before installing this update please ?

 

[tonymacx86]

Article: NVIDIA Releases Mountain Lion 10.8.3 Graphics Drivers

You need to add "nvda_drv=1" to boot args and reboot. Then you will be running on the new driver. NVDAGF100HalWeb 8.14.11 (313.01.01f03)

AHA! In order to flag the alternate drivers on a CustoMac, you must add the flag manually to the chameleon.org.Boot.plist. I'd guess the new pref pane only adds it to your "Mac" com.apple.Boot.plist, which is in a different location, and not used on a CustoMac. For Chimera bootloader:

1. Open Finder
2. Navigate to /Extra/org.chameleon.Boot.plist
3. Open in TextEdit
4. Add nvda_drv=1 to Kernel Flags or add a new key as shown:

Example Usage:

<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>darkwake=0 nvda_drv=1</string>

or add a new key

<key>nvda_drv</key>
<string>1</string>

5. Save and reboot

You should be on the new NVIDIA drivers.

Thanks kawayuppie

 

[htc]

Article: NVIDIA Releases Mountain Lion 10.8.3 Graphics Drivers

I changed my iMac to Mac pro 3.1 and I installed nVidia driver but now its not working even with those codes.
It says my GTX580 not supported

 

[tonymacx86]

OK another thing I noticed in verbose mode on startup:

NVDAStartup: Official

that's what you see with OS X native drivers


NVDAStartup: Web

that's what you see with new NVIDIA web drivers.

I added a few more screenshots to the album here: http://www.tonymacx86.com/members/tonymacx86/albums/new-nvidia-drivers-10-8-3/

Also, still need GraphicsEnabler=No for GeForce 6xx, and GraphicsEnabler=Yes for all other GeForce 9xxx, 2xx, 4xx, 5xx.

Hope this helps!

 

[Tsunade]

Article: NVIDIA Releases Mountain Lion 10.8.3 Graphics Drivers

Ty tony for explanation Anyway, I tested a little and didnt notice any differences between those two drivers. it seams that OpenCL is still bugged. Tried with openCL oceaview and Gpu Core stuck on max 1.12ghz without chance to put it back on 324mhz

 

[tonymacx86]

Article: NVIDIA Releases Mountain Lion 10.8.3 Graphics Drivers

Ty tony for explanation Anyway, I tested a little and didnt notice any differences between those two drivers. it seams that OpenCL is still bugged. Tried with openCL oceaview and Gpu Core stuck on max 1.12ghz without chance to put it back on 324mhz

In my testing if you needed to patch for support for OpenCL before - GF106, GF116, ie the 450, 550 Ti,etc... you will still need to do that. Although this should fix any glitchy Fermi stuff hopefully as far as freezing with native drivers. We'll have to see.

 

[delray]

Article: NVIDIA Releases Mountain Lion 10.8.3 Graphics Drivers

EDIT: Got the web drivers to load by doing the famous 'repair permissions' you'd think I'd know by now!

hmm, still no love in getting the webdriver to load. Pref pane and menu item is there, but cant seem to get them to load on restart

system:
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 3.60 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 16 GB
Boot ROM Version: MultiBeast.tonymacx86.com
SMC Version (system): 1.30f3
Serial Number (system): G881C495J4

------------------------------------------------
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680:
Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
and from chameleon plist:
<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>No</string>
...
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>darkwake=0 PCIRootUID=1 nvda_drv=1</string>
---------------------------------------------
i updated the CUDA drivers first to 5.0.59, maybe that was my mistake?
any hints?

 

[telepati]

Article: NVIDIA Releases Mountain Lion 10.8.3 Graphics Drivers

@tonymacX86 your 660 on ECC tab saying supported or not supported?

And also who is download to Fusion Drive without installation failed?