New nVidia driver 304.00.00f20

[Lorengrin]

Mountain Lion 10.8.1 Nvidia Drivers

RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS

CUDA Application Support:
In order to run Mac OS X Applications that leverage the CUDA architecture of certain NVIDIA graphics cards, users will need to download and install the CUDA 5.x driver for Mac located here.

New in Release 304.00.00f20:

Contains performance improvements and bug fixes for a wide range of applications.
Release Notes Archive:

This driver update is for Mac Pro 5,1 (2010), Mac Pro 4,1 (2009) and Mac Pro 3,1 (2008) users only.
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I tried it with my GTX 680, works perfect.

 

[eradicator006]

Thanks for this! Unfortunately the new drivers didn't fix the bug where agpm doesn't work when 2 monitors are connected. I'm hoping the new drivers fix the intermittent freeze I get (only had 3 freezes in a month).

 

[Lorengrin]

But it should be on your card, with the GTX 680 and GTX580, perfect work

 

[thierrz]

Is this also for the GTX 560 (non ti) ?

Thanks in advance.

 

[khe91]

See http://www.tonymacx86.com/graphics/71816-nvidia-releases-mountain-lion-10-8-1-graphics-drivers.html

 

[solarein]

Thanks for this! Unfortunately the new drivers didn't fix the bug where agpm doesn't work when 2 monitors are connected. I'm hoping the new drivers fix the intermittent freeze I get (only had 3 freezes in a month).

I don't think that's a bug. Even in Windows with the newest Nvidia drivers, my GTX 570 is always at state 0 with two monitors connected. Removing one monitor, and the card goes to lower power states as expected.

 

[bluesky]

I installed these drivers for my GTS 450 and now sleep works! Thank you for posting! My only problem now is that the fonts look all jagged. They were MUCH smoother before I updated the driver. Any advice?

 

[custom-mac]

Did not noticed any improvement in performance. This driver will add ~5-7 sec delay during boot. Restored original ML 10.8.1 drivers. Neither good nor bad, so no bother for me.

 

[solarein]

I don't think that's a bug. Even in Windows with the newest Nvidia drivers, my GTX 570 is always at state 0 with two monitors connected. Removing one monitor, and the card goes to lower power states as expected.

Spoke too soon. Just booted into Windows for the first time in a while, updated to the newest GeForce drivers, and it seems like the my GTX570 can now go to the lowest power state even with two monitors connected. This was definitely not the case with an earlier driver I was using. Guess it was a bug after all. Now we just have to wait until they fix it in the OS X driver as well...

 

[solarein]

I've noticed that with this driver, on occasion I would get GPU errors which shows up in the syslog as follows:

Nov 28 00:58:14 cronus kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error
Nov 28 00:58:14 cronus kernel[0]: IOVendorGLContext::ReportGPURestart
Nov 28 00:58:14 cronus kernel[0]: 0000006e
Nov 28 00:58:14 cronus kernel[0]: 00200000 00009297 00000000 00000000
Nov 28 00:58:14 cronus kernel[0]: 00000000 000023ac 00000000 00000003
Nov 28 00:58:14 cronus kernel[0]: 00000000 00000000 00000000
Nov 28 00:58:14 cronus kernel[0]: 00000000 00000000

This would cause the entire system to crash, as all displays become unresponsive. Although I was still able to ssh in from another system and properly shutdown the system. This only seems to happen in the browser (I'm using Chrome 23) and only on certain sites with a lot of Flash content. It seems certain sites, such as dailymotion.com, would trigger this GPU error 100% of the time. After I reverted to the stock 10.8.2 driver, this issue disappeared completely.

Anyone else experienced anything like this?