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Hi everyone.
I wonder if anyone has had this problem, and has found a solution to it.
I just got my Hackintosh working great, just to find out that I cannot play any games on it because the screen goes black whenever I start a game on it. I can hear the game running, but the screen is black. Consequently, I cannot get control back of my hackintosh, and the only way out is to unplug the computer. :
My set up is a Gigabyte GA-Z68M-D2H motherboard, Intel Core i5 2500K, 8 GB 1600 GHz RAM, 500 GB SATA HD, and the video card is the nVidia 9600GSO 768. I used the iBoot + Multibeast method with retail Snow Leopard DVD and 10.6.8 Combo update and GA-Z68M-D2H-F4 DSDT from the DSDT database, no other .kext.
Everything else is working great. It's just the videocard problem that I am having. The graphic card under OS X reports as nVidia 9600 GSO 512 with 768mb of RAM. I get full resolution on the desktop, all desktop applications like Picasa and VLC work fine. 3D graphics also works fine, as I can run Cinebench 95, which runs OpenGL in a windowed environment. I can see the 3D cars being benchmarked (and my 9600 GSO benchmarks at par with other 9600 GSO cards). Other benchmark programs that run video tests in a windowed mode also work fine. 2D games that run in a windowed mode also run fine.
The kind of programs that I am having problems with are 3D game programs like Age of Empire III and The Sims 3. But I am not sure if it is because they run in full screen mode or because they are 3D programs.
By the way, I used this very same video card on my now dead hackintosh that used to run OS X 10.6.4 on a different motherboard. But it needed a custom .kext to work at all. But with that .kext, it worked perfectly with all the games, including Age of Empires III and The Sims 3 worked in full screen.
Is anyone else having this problem? have you found a .kext or a solution? is this a problem with the 10.6.8 or what am I missing? I love my hackintosh, but I would love to be able to play games on it. H E L P !
any input, comments, stories, suggestions are welcomed. thanks
I wonder if anyone has had this problem, and has found a solution to it.
I just got my Hackintosh working great, just to find out that I cannot play any games on it because the screen goes black whenever I start a game on it. I can hear the game running, but the screen is black. Consequently, I cannot get control back of my hackintosh, and the only way out is to unplug the computer. :
My set up is a Gigabyte GA-Z68M-D2H motherboard, Intel Core i5 2500K, 8 GB 1600 GHz RAM, 500 GB SATA HD, and the video card is the nVidia 9600GSO 768. I used the iBoot + Multibeast method with retail Snow Leopard DVD and 10.6.8 Combo update and GA-Z68M-D2H-F4 DSDT from the DSDT database, no other .kext.
Everything else is working great. It's just the videocard problem that I am having. The graphic card under OS X reports as nVidia 9600 GSO 512 with 768mb of RAM. I get full resolution on the desktop, all desktop applications like Picasa and VLC work fine. 3D graphics also works fine, as I can run Cinebench 95, which runs OpenGL in a windowed environment. I can see the 3D cars being benchmarked (and my 9600 GSO benchmarks at par with other 9600 GSO cards). Other benchmark programs that run video tests in a windowed mode also work fine. 2D games that run in a windowed mode also run fine.
The kind of programs that I am having problems with are 3D game programs like Age of Empire III and The Sims 3. But I am not sure if it is because they run in full screen mode or because they are 3D programs.
By the way, I used this very same video card on my now dead hackintosh that used to run OS X 10.6.4 on a different motherboard. But it needed a custom .kext to work at all. But with that .kext, it worked perfectly with all the games, including Age of Empires III and The Sims 3 worked in full screen.
Is anyone else having this problem? have you found a .kext or a solution? is this a problem with the 10.6.8 or what am I missing? I love my hackintosh, but I would love to be able to play games on it. H E L P !
any input, comments, stories, suggestions are welcomed. thanks