New NVIDIA Graphics Drivers for 10.7.3 Lion Released

[Parkol]

I have 295 GTX and after installation It shows all resolutions (from 640x480 to 1920x1200) and some applications works better, but I did tests Cinebench and it shows 14 fps. Of course I am not going to play Crysis on Lion, but it's too slow. I worked in After Effects before on Snow Leo, but now I think it will be difficult to work there.

Would you recommend what I should do to make my 295 GTX work better after installing th latest Nvidia driver?

 

[RastaFeri]

my system is set up as an iMac, so i had to unpack the package contents manually and install them using kest wizard. so far everything works on my GTX 560, i have also enabled the hw acceleration in flash and haven't become any fermi freeze yet.

 

[aFlockOfMoosen]

My Cinebench FPS is dissappointing, but I'm just happy to have my GTX 560Ti working without any hacks... I don't do much gaming on the Hackintosh, anyway

*EDIT*
I just thought to try removing the arch=i386 bootflag, since i needed to get my GTX card working before the new drivers. The card works even without it, now, although my benchmarks are nearly identical :\

 

[arisyo13]

My system specs: i5 2500K, EVGA GTX 260, 8GB RAM.
Well so Far i test my system with system cinebench.

Before Nvidia update i had OpenGL 37,15 FPS
And CPU 5.94

After Nvidia update i had OpenGL 43.19 FPS
And CPU 6.32

Are these results good for my system?

 

[custom-mac]

Installed on my system. As expected, it produced no any difference. Same good scores in Cinebench abd Luxmark. No issues with Sleep/Wake. Everything is exactly as it was with Apple provided driver with 10.7.3.

Cons: "OpenGL Extensions Viewer" performance dropped by half for OpenGL1.5 and up. I used "NVIDIA Driver Restore.mpkg" to restore my system back to Apple supplied drivers and OpenGL performance is back.

 

[custom-mac]

My system specs: i5 2500K, EVGA GTX 260, 8GB RAM.
Well so Far i test my system with system cinebench.

Before Nvidia update i had OpenGL 37,15 FPS
And CPU 5.94

After Nvidia update i had OpenGL 43.19 FPS
And CPU 6.32

Are these results good for my system?

Yes, it is good/expected results. Your video works fine.

 

[justme88]

WooT my Zotac 560ti 448cores is finaly working!
OOTB without any extra tweaks, just install this driver and it works

 

[Lorengrin]

Install the new version of nVidia drivers and did not get an increase in performance, instead use the driver version 10.7.2 and increased performance.

51.77 in Cinebench

 

[chenchunyen]

Does anyone have ideas of how to update the official Nvidia driver in Hacintosh??
I had a Geforce 210 but when I play 1080p movie, it plays a bit laggy.
I am trying to update the latest drive to see if it is fixed.

 

[beta990]

Has anyone got this working correctly with iMac12,2 as smbios?
I have installed it on MacPro3,1 and afterwards changed to iMac12,2.
Have now manually installed the kexts again, hopefully to get no freezes anymore..

I see the following in my System Profiler:

  Chipset Model:	GeForce GTS 450
  Type:	GPU
  Bus:	PCIe
  Slot:	Slot-1
  PCIe Lane Width:	x16
  VRAM (Total):	1024 MB
  Vendor:	NVIDIA (0x10de)
  Device ID:	0x0dc4
  Revision ID:	0x00a1
  ROM Revision:	70.06.33.00.52
  Displays:
SyncMaster:
  Resolution:	1680 x 1050 @ 60 Hz
  Pixel Depth:	32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
  Display Serial Number:	H9XQ520632  
  Main Display:	Yes
  Mirror:	Off
  Online:	Yes
  Rotation:	Supported

And kexts-info:

NVDAGF100Hal:

  Version:	1.3.4
  Last Modified:	3/7/12 10:18 PM
  Get Info String:	NVDAGF100Hal 1.3.4.0 (270.00.00f01)
  Kind:	Intel
  Architectures:	i386, x86_64
  64-Bit (Intel):	Yes
  Location:	/System/Library/Extensions/NVDAGF100Hal.kext
  Kext Version:	3.0.4
  Load Address:	0x***
  Valid:	Yes
  Authentic:	Yes
  Dependencies:	Satisfied