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NVIDIA launched "Maxwell" based GTX 960 graphics card in January 2015

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That flag does not help in my case. It's weird: The system boots properly right after installing the drivers and rebooting (without fixing permissions), however on the second and all further boots I get an immediate reboot / black screen and I can't even see an error message. Any idea? I'm using clover by the way and have the ASUS GTX 960 STRIX.

I can confirm that a -no-zp boot flag fixes the black screen on boot and sleep/wake function so far. Does anyone know exactly what this does? I can't find it on any list of known boot flags at all.
 
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That flag does not help in my case. It's weird: The system boots properly right after installing the drivers and rebooting (without fixing permissions), however on the second and all further boots I get an immediate reboot / black screen and I can't even see an error message. Any idea? I'm using clover by the way and have the ASUS GTX 960 STRIX.

What worked for me was installing using Stork's guide here:

Stork said:
Here's the step by step way to update for those who aren't using the nVidia Maxwell graphics cards:
:ch: Repair Permissions using the Disk Utility on the drive to be updated;*
:ch: Backup your current installation using Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper;
:ch: Download the latest MultiBeast for Yosemite;
:ch: Download the Software Update or the Combo Update and run it to update to 10.10.3;
:ch: Re-boot;
:ch: Run MultiBeast for Yosemite and just select your audio driver to install and, optionally, the 10.10.x TRIM patch;
:ch: Re-boot; and
:ch: Repair Permissions again.*
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But before the last reboot add -no-zp bootflags. Without them my computer will black screen upon waking from sleep and restart. I updated to the most recent drivers and security update as well which actually helped with some fan noise of the card as well. Try updating to/reinstalling the latest update, and follow this guide with the additional bootflags and see if it works.

So far everything is working great. Haven't tried a full restart yet, but it wakes perfectly so i'm going to put that off as long as possible :p
 
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Hi!
Anybody with working zotac GTX 960 with 4gb of vram on yosemite 10.10.3?
 

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Just wanted to step in for one quick second and ask two quick questions I haven't seen posted yet:

1. Anyone running Triple monitor with one of these cards or tested it yet?

I've bought ASUS STRIX-GTX960-DC2OC-4GD5 today, installed the drivers, removed nvidia stuff from CloverEFI - and set nvda_drv=1

I'm using triple monitor, at first I had some trouble getting the last monitor to work. But i still had some nvidia stuff in CloverEFI - got that removed. And it worked.

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You either need 10.10.1 + NVDriver 343.02.01f01 or 10.10.2 + 343.02.02f01.

Also ensure that you boot with nvda_drv=1 .
What about GTX 950 with Mavericks 10.9.5? I can't seem to boot at all without having nv_disable=1 as boot args and i don't have full acceleration. I really need this to work so i could start my music productions.
 

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What about GTX 950 with Mavericks 10.9.5? I can't seem to boot at all without having nv_disable=1 as boot args and i don't have full acceleration. I really need this to work so i could start my music productions.
Maxwell support didn't start until Yosemite with nVidia's web drivers. So, your 950 won't work in Mavericks.
 
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Hey guys! Should the Nvidia GTX 960 work under Snow Leopard? Thanks :)

I want a new video card for my Hackintosh. I'm looking for the best that Snow Leopard accepts without issues but I'm not being able to find one.

PS: I'm not a native speaker, so excuse me for my English.
 

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That flag does not help in my case. It's weird: The system boots properly right after installing the drivers and rebooting (without fixing permissions), however on the second and all further boots I get an immediate reboot / black screen and I can't even see an error message. Any idea? I'm using clover by the way and have the ASUS GTX 960 STRIX.
You may want to add cpus=1 in boot arguments in your Clover config.plist.
This is what I use to access both 10.10 and 10.11 with my GTX 960:
SMBIOS: iMac14,2
Boot arguments: dart=0 nv_drv=1 kext-dev-mode=1 nvda_drv=1 cpus=1
 
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