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

[rawbear]

Success!
Gigabyte Z68-MA motherboard. Had to upgrade BIOS to U1C to prevent boot delays.
EVGA GTX 960 Superclocked (one fan/compact) works perfect on 342.02.02f04 but recognized a generic NVIDIA with correct RAM (2G).
Had to reboot with -x to re-apply MultiBeast parameters. I use 2 monitors @ 1080p
Works great in windows (machine id dual booth).

 

[Octavean]

Today i tested G960 MSI 4GB version in Yosemite i Hackingtosh - Z68 intel chipset board, with Nvidia last - f3 driver and its working. Im using Chimera, but other loaders should also work.

I had non MacOS related issue with this card, i had to upgrade bios to proper boot, before upgrade it took 2 minutes to boot loader.

OpenGL - Steam games and Unigine heaven benchmark are working.

Only issue i have is that only one monitor is on, second is dead, and i dont know how to turn it on.
Working monitor is connected on DVI, not working on HDMI, i other OSes works both. I need somewho force monitor detection.
Yes GC have also DP outputs but i hate DP, because of its behavior in Win OSes so i would like to make HDMI working..

Thanks for the info.

In my case I would want to be able to run one, two or possibly three 4K monitors off of the GTX960 so I would need to use the DisplayPort outputs to achieve 3840x2160 at 60Hz. The HDMI port could be useful too since its HDMI 2.0 capable but its unclear to me if OS X Yosemite supports HDMI 2.0 at this time even if the HDMI port worked at all.

 

[Grazz16]

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.

 

[Phlogi]

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.

 

[Grazz16]

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:

Here's the step by step way to update for those who aren't using the nVidia Maxwell graphics cards:
Repair Permissions using the Disk Utility on the drive to be updated;*
Backup your current installation using Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper;
Download the latest MultiBeast for Yosemite;
Download the Software Update or the Combo Update and run it to update to 10.10.3;
Re-boot;
Run MultiBeast for Yosemite and just select your audio driver to install and, optionally, the 10.10.x TRIM patch;
Re-boot; and
Repair Permissions again.*
...

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

 

[qatrick]

Hi!
Anybody with working zotac GTX 960 with 4gb of vram on yosemite 10.10.3?

 

[ksa]

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.

 

[Trunyce]

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.

 

[Stork]

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.

 

[Manticore]

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.