GT 740 recommended from buyers guide, is it oob ? El Capitan 10.11.4 macOS

[thevoiceover]

Hello to you all and thank you for the time to possibly read over this or help me troubleshoot. I have read many of the other threads and most of them seem to be Kepler based or require the web drivers and that is what I'm hoping to avoid.

I purchased a GT 740 primarily over the 750 as the buyers guide seems to state that the 750 needs web drivers and the 740 is "natively compatible without modifying drivers."

So I went ahead and took the performance loss so I would have something easy to maintain and not have to worry about web driver issues. Well I plugged it in, expecting to boot and then I was greeted with a black screen. So then I made sure I had no injection turned on and tried the nv_disable=1 and it booted but of course, no acceleration. Last but not least, I downloaded the web drivers and tried nvda_drv=1 and it booted fine with proper acceleration.

So does it sound like I am not doing something correct or does this Kepler card require some work to get her going? I'm just at a loss now as I was depending on the guide to be accurate, but I get it can't always be this way and now I am trying to resolve this issue I am having in macOS

Thanks,
TVO

 

[Adrian B]

It looks as if it is increasingly common that many people using GT 740 cards are requiring the additional drivers particularly with the latest release of 10.11.4
It should be a GK107 card (rebadged GTX 650) which you should be able to verify using DPCIManager.

 

[slim.jim]

More often than not the GDDR5 version of the GT 740 requires the drivers.