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I had some support chat with Nvidia last week.. and this person told me there will never be a 1080 driver.. As he told me they support till 600 series and never officially supported 700 and 900 cards.. they only make a 'simple' driver he said that will make OSX recognise the card and does not take full advantage of the cards capabilities. However the site does not mention any 700 900 cards. This person also told me there will never be a 'simple' driver for 1080 cards.. and it would be best for me to return the card (What I'm not going to do..) He told me to contact apple. I really pushed to get the truth and it looked like the person I was talking to was quite well informed about the whole thing..

I'm not sure how hard it would be to port the linux drivers to OS X (if they are open source, I did not check) I would be willing to dive into Kext development.. maybe MacVidCards has something coming up, since a message on their blog mentioned new EFI cards. (if this will be 1080 cards and if they found a way to run it.. IDK)

I'm kind of new to the hackintosh community (although I've been around here for several years), I've always owned a real Mac, but liked to tweak it. I have used hackintosh programs on my mac's to make them work better :)

P.S. I did not read everything here, but kept an eye on this Thread for some weeks now
 
floris497 said:
I had some support chat with Nvidia last week.. and this person told me there will never be a 1080 driver.. As he told me they support till 600 series and never officially supported 700 and 900 cards.. they only make a 'simple' driver he said that will make OSX recognise the card and does not take full advantage of the cards capabilities. However the site does not mention any 700 900 cards. This person also told me there will never be a 'simple' driver for 1080 cards.. and it would be best for me to return the card (What I'm not going to do..) He told me to contact apple. I really pushed to get the truth and it looked like the person I was talking to was quite well informed about the whole thing..

I'm not sure how hard it would be to port the linux drivers to OS X (if they are open source, I did not check) I would be willing to dive into Kext development.. maybe MacVidCards has something coming up, since a message on their blog mentioned new EFI cards. (if this will be 1080 cards and if they found a way to run it.. IDK)

I'm kind of new to the hackintosh community (although I've been around here for several years), I've always owned a real Mac, but liked to tweak it. I have used hackintosh programs on my mac's to make them work better :)

P.S. I did not read everything here, but kept an eye on this Thread for some weeks now
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Hi if you are able to port over from Linux somehow we'd all be in your debt.
 
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floris497 said:
I had some support chat with Nvidia last week.. and this person told me there will never be a 1080 driver.. As he told me they support till 600 series and never officially supported 700 and 900 cards.. they only make a 'simple' driver he said that will make OSX recognise the card and does not take full advantage of the cards capabilities. However the site does not mention any 700 900 cards. This person also told me there will never be a 'simple' driver for 1080 cards.. and it would be best for me to return the card (What I'm not going to do..) He told me to contact apple. I really pushed to get the truth and it looked like the person I was talking to was quite well informed about the whole thing..

I'm not sure how hard it would be to port the linux drivers to OS X (if they are open source, I did not check) I would be willing to dive into Kext development.. maybe MacVidCards has something coming up, since a message on their blog mentioned new EFI cards. (if this will be 1080 cards and if they found a way to run it.. IDK)

I'm kind of new to the hackintosh community (although I've been around here for several years), I've always owned a real Mac, but liked to tweak it. I have used hackintosh programs on my mac's to make them work better :)

P.S. I did not read everything here, but kept an eye on this Thread for some weeks now
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It is what I imagined. it's been too long since the release of Pascal for not yet support!!
So the best video card for now remains the 980ti

Otherwise effectively the hackintosh community could be developed, some port from the linux driver for some experienced and to pay for the work
if you could do would be not a bad idea!
 
PilotaFulmine said:
It is what I imagined. it's been too long since the release of Pascal for not yet support!!
So the best video card for now remains the 980ti

Otherwise effectively the hackintosh community could be developed, some port from the linux driver for some experienced and to pay for the work
if you could do would be not a bad idea!
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Quick search showed no open source drivers for Linux, they might be there, just looked for 5 min. I'm missing quit the knowledge and expertise to make such a driver.. but I'm willing to learn it :) also next to a full-time job I don't have much time to figure something out. I would first need to learn how exactly these kind drivers work.. Don't expect to much from me :)
 
floris497 said:
Quick search showed no open source drivers for Linux, they might be there, just looked for 5 min. I'm missing quit the knowledge and expertise to make such a driver.. but I'm willing to learn it :) also next to a full-time job I don't have much time to figure something out. I would first need to learn how exactly these kind drivers work.. Don't expect to much from me :)
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I'm no expert but looking I found this.
The problem is that it takes an expert developer of linux and macos to know if you can do :|
 

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Sad theres no feedback from Nvidia. As I mentioned many pages ago, i suspect this is all just a political play to remain on Apple's good side. Nvidia really does not have much to lose by NOT releasing a driver on OSX (and driving up sales) but if they want business from Apple, its possible they don't want to be seen as 'promoting' unofficial hardware and hackintoh.
 
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Wolfie81 said:
Sad theres no feedback from Nvidia. As I mentioned many pages ago, i suspect this is all just a political play to remain on Apple's good side. Nvidia really does not have much to lose by NOT releasing a driver on OSX (and driving up sales) but if they want business from Apple, its possible they don't want to be seen as 'promoting' unofficial hardware and hackintoh.
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Even if they decide to support Pascal eventually, I don't think they'll reply to tonymacx86 directly. They might just quietly release it on the website (I hope).
 
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