NVIDIA Releases Alternate Graphics Drivers for 10.10.0 (343.01.01) with 'Maxwell' GeForce GTX 970 an

[mywhitenoise]

343.02.01f01 update seemed to install fine for me, thankfully. I updated CUDA to 6.5.33 first. I still get the CUDA update popup every time at boot, though.

::EDIT:: I spoke too soon. The background turns black and white every time I play videos in VLC or youtube.

::EDIT 2:: Something was up with my monitor. I reset to default settings and everything is appearing normal for now.

 

[mederock]

Tim, lesmacs I have the same problem, and using clover and same flags.

On the nvidia driver manager, if I click on « OS X default driver » the restart button works, but if I click on Nvidia web driver, the restart button is grey.

 

[TH13]

Tim, lesmacs I have the same problem, and using clover and same flags.

On the nvidia driver manager, if I click on « OS X default driver » the restart button works, but if I click on Nvidia web driver, the restart button is grey.

yupp, I get that behavior where the restart button is greyed out on the nvidia driver, but when I click on osx default, I get prompted with a message to restart and a clickable button. I'm still trying to wrap my brain around where the disconnect is. The only thing I can think of to solve this is some sort of change to a kext, smbios, or dsdt. I'm still pretty new to hackintoshes, so a lot of this is a little bit above my understanding at the moment. Did you choose to use clover because the installer wouldn't complete with unibeast?

 

[mederock]

Maybe I have found the solution of this "problem" :

I found that here : http://www.tonymacx86.com/353-nvidi...-8-3-graphics-drivers/comments5.html#comments

Please use:
<string>darkwake=0 nvda_drv=1 </string>,
in other words, you need to insert it to the "Kernel Flags" and not as Key, then reboot your machine.
Now the New Drivers are set as Default OS X Driver and you are running on them, just check in CUDA App.
Remember: Drivers needs NOT to be set as "nVidia Web Driver", The new nVidia Web drivers runs already as "OS X Default Driver". Why? because we set them to be as Driver 1 in the Kernel Flags. And if you want to switch between the Default and the Web Drivers, you CAN'T, your system runs now always with nVidia Web Drivers as default.

So it seems that it's just a cosmetic problem. I open the terminal and write "kextstat" and I can see that nvidia web drivers are running.

 

[TH13]

Maybe I have found the solution of this "problem" :

I found that here : http://www.tonymacx86.com/353-nvidi...-8-3-graphics-drivers/comments5.html#comments

Please use:
<string>darkwake=0 nvda_drv=1 </string>,
in other words, you need to insert it to the "Kernel Flags" and not as Key, then reboot your machine.
Now the New Drivers are set as Default OS X Driver and you are running on them, just check in CUDA App.
Remember: Drivers needs NOT to be set as "nVidia Web Driver", The new nVidia Web drivers runs already as "OS X Default Driver". Why? because we set them to be as Driver 1 in the Kernel Flags. And if you want to switch between the Default and the Web Drivers, you CAN'T, your system runs now always with nVidia Web Drivers as default.

So it seems that it's just a cosmetic problem. I open the terminal and write "kextstat" and I can see that nvidia web drivers are running.

Thanks for the info! I'll have to check this out when I get back home on the 5th.

 

[djneba]

Here's the fix for CUDA

The "Update Required" can be eliminated under Cuda 6.5.33 / 10.1.43 (343.02.01f01) - running on a Mac3,1/GTX660Ti - by editing your info.plist file inside

>Library>Frameworks>CUDA.Framework>Versions>A>Resources>info.plist (open with TextEdit)

by adding at the end (befor the first </dict> tag)

<key>343.02.01</key>
<string>343.02.01</string>

Than SAVE and Restart your system.

double check if CUDA is running via TERMINAL:
kextstat | grep -i cuda

"Update Required" eliminated.

This should work for all who have the latest (343.02.01) drivers and CUDA (6.5.33) regardless of GPU.

 

[djneba]

Some asked via pm and I can't answer them, so I'll post a reply here.

i just got my Yose up and running last night with my 660ti, and i was wondering ifyou had any issues loading the new drivers. I was hesitant to load them last night since i just got it up and working. After upgrading, did you notice an gains/bugs? i'm mainly a WOW gamer, so i'm hoping for a little bump in FPS with the updated drivers.

I had no problems with the new drivers, apart from this CUDA bug.
I can't say anything about performance because I didn't do any tests.

 

[Kaneda13]

alright, thanks. i'll try tonight and test before and after my upgrade tonight, unless anyone has a link to someone alreading having done it.

Not a huge difference, but a bit:

54.75 at stock, 57.24 with web drivers

 

[Kaneda13]

i got the drivers installed no problem, rebooted, and the menu bar app and the control panel say i'm on the new drivers, but the CUDa apps still shows the 310 drivers are active.

Never mind, fixed after the next reboot.

 

[mywhitenoise]

Some asked via pm and I can't answer them, so I'll post a reply here.



I had no problems with the new drivers, apart from this CUDA bug.
I can't say anything about performance because I didn't do any tests.

Were you using the HDMI audio extension found here? And is it currently still working for you with the latest NVIDIA drivers?

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1499797