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NVIDIA Releases Alternate Graphics Drivers for 10.10.0 (343.01.01f01) with 'Maxwell' GeForce GTX 970 and 980 Support
This is probably a stupid question, so please excuse my ignorance, but how would I go about upgrading my graphics card to a GTX970 if I don't have an integrated graphics chipset to fall back on when booting up.
Right now my rig has a 650ti which is natively supported, but i'm a 2011 socket board so no integrated graphics. So I'm assuming I won't be able to boot into Yosemite to install the new graphics drivers unless there's some way of booting both with the 650TI and the 970.
tldr; OS X won't boot with a GTX 970 unless the alternate graphics are installed right?
This is probably a stupid question, so please excuse my ignorance, but how would I go about upgrading my graphics card to a GTX970 if I don't have an integrated graphics chipset to fall back on when booting up.
Right now my rig has a 650ti which is natively supported, but i'm a 2011 socket board so no integrated graphics. So I'm assuming I won't be able to boot into Yosemite to install the new graphics drivers unless there's some way of booting both with the 650TI and the 970.
tldr; OS X won't boot with a GTX 970 unless the alternate graphics are installed right?
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NVIDIA Releases Alternate Graphics Drivers for 10.10.0 (343.01.01f01) with 'Maxwell' GeForce GTX 970 and 980 Support
At the Chameleon boot screen, press any key, then type: nv_disable=1
That will boot you into a very low-resolution/"compatibility" mode, and from there you can download & install the Web drivers. Then follow the instructions on how to modify your org.chameleon.boot.plist once the Web drivers are installed:
Reboot. You should be good to go after that.
PS...that's exactly how I had to do it, as I have an X99-series motherboard (socket 2011 like you), and there is no integrated graphics (IGFX).
At the Chameleon boot screen, press any key, then type: nv_disable=1
That will boot you into a very low-resolution/"compatibility" mode, and from there you can download & install the Web drivers. Then follow the instructions on how to modify your org.chameleon.boot.plist once the Web drivers are installed:
Code:
[COLOR=#000000]<key>Kernel Flags</key>[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000]<string>kext-dev-mode=1 nvda_drv=1</string>[/COLOR]Reboot. You should be good to go after that.
PS...that's exactly how I had to do it, as I have an X99-series motherboard (socket 2011 like you), and there is no integrated graphics (IGFX).
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Great, will try when I get the card later. Thanks!
Great, will try when I get the card later. Thanks!
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NVIDIA Releases Alternate Graphics Drivers for 10.10.0 (343.01.01f01) with 'Maxwell' GeForce GTX 970 and 980 Support
Double-check my previous post - made some edits to give you more info & help.
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Double-check my previous post - made some edits to give you more info & help.
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NVIDIA Releases Alternate Graphics Drivers for 10.10.0 (343.01.01f01) with 'Maxwell' GeForce GTX 970 and 980 Support
Same thing here with Clover (Nvidia GTX 750 Ti). It worked after a few reboots but my system is less stable now. I downgraded to 343.01.01f01 and it's definitely better for me.
Same thing here with Clover (Nvidia GTX 750 Ti). It worked after a few reboots but my system is less stable now. I downgraded to 343.01.01f01 and it's definitely better for me.
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Absolutely not. It's really working great. Not a single noise from the fans and HDMI is working as expected.
"What I did :
1. Clean install of Yosemite with Clover, without the video card.
2. Add nv_disable=1 in boot args
3. Connect the card
4. Reboot
4. Install the latest NVIDIA Web Drivers
5. Remove nv_disable=1, add nvda_drv=1
6. Reboot, but don't connect your screen to the video card yet.
7. Go into the bios and disable IGFX, select PCIe 1st slot as the first selection. This will enable the bios to be displayed on your main screen connected to the video card. Now you can connect your screen to the video card.
8. Boot into OSX, this will now be even faster than before"
I'm considering getting a gtx750 ti also, have you experienced the fans at full blast and no signal through HDMI on your clover install?
Absolutely not. It's really working great. Not a single noise from the fans and HDMI is working as expected.
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NVIDIA Releases Alternate Graphics Drivers for 10.10.0 (343.01.01f01) with 'Maxwell' GeForce GTX 970 and 980 Support
Thanks Flo655, what is your system definition?, I'm on an iMac 14,2 clover install, should I change to MacPro3,1?
Thanks Flo655, what is your system definition?, I'm on an iMac 14,2 clover install, should I change to MacPro3,1?
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Help Please
i've installed 2x GTX 970's in my setup - running these latest driveres from nvidia (f03) with CUDA, everything seems to be working but OpenGL. My Cinebench R15 scores are very poor for these cards (68FPS) and i'm not sure how to fix it.
I've tried SMBios both MacPro3,1 and 5,1 no changes.
Help Please
i've installed 2x GTX 970's in my setup - running these latest driveres from nvidia (f03) with CUDA, everything seems to be working but OpenGL. My Cinebench R15 scores are very poor for these cards (68FPS) and i'm not sure how to fix it.
I've tried SMBios both MacPro3,1 and 5,1 no changes.
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NVIDIA Releases Alternate Graphics Drivers for 10.10.0 (343.01.01f01) with 'Maxwell' GeForce GTX 970 and 980 Support
My MSI GTX 970 boots fine without any flags into yosemite with nvidia web drivers f02, with f03 it was freezing during loading screen and the only way to launch it was to type in -f nvda_drv=1 adding chameleon boot commands did not work.
So Uninstall the drivers install fresh f02 and, good luck!
My MSI GTX 970 boots fine without any flags into yosemite with nvidia web drivers f02, with f03 it was freezing during loading screen and the only way to launch it was to type in -f nvda_drv=1 adding chameleon boot commands did not work.
So Uninstall the drivers install fresh f02 and, good luck!
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