NVIDIA Releases Mountain Lion 10.8.3 Graphics Drivers

[kawayuppie]

Article: NVIDIA Releases Mountain Lion 10.8.3 Graphics Drivers

AHA! In order to flag the alternate drivers on a CustoMac, you must add the flag manually to the chameleon.org.Boot.plist. I'd guess the new pref pane only adds it to your "Mac" com.apple.Boot.plist, which is in a different location, and not used on a CustoMac.

Actually, Nvidia sticks the flag in the boot-args variable in nvram

$ nvram boot-args
boot-args	nvda_drv=1

 

[tonymacx86]

Article: NVIDIA Releases Mountain Lion 10.8.3 Graphics Drivers

Actually, Nvidia sticks the flag in the boot-args variable in nvram

$ nvram boot-args
boot-args    nvda_drv=1

Thanks for the clearup- I knew it was someplace out of sight.

 

[alpha beta]

Article: NVIDIA Releases Mountain Lion 10.8.3 Graphics Drivers

And also who is download to Fusion Drive without installation failed?

Me.

 

[Craigrox]

How is this looking for the GTX 550 Ti and the GTS 450, which still have problems in 10.8.3?

 

[kissandtellMAC74]

Article: NVIDIA Releases Mountain Lion 10.8.3 Graphics Drivers

EDIT: Got the web drivers to load by doing the famous 'repair permissions' you'd think I'd know by now!

hmm, still no love in getting the webdriver to load. Pref pane and menu item is there, but cant seem to get them to load on restart

system:
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 3.60 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 16 GB
Boot ROM Version: MultiBeast.tonymacx86.com
SMC Version (system): 1.30f3
Serial Number (system): G881C495J4

------------------------------------------------
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680:
Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
and from chameleon plist:
<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>No</string>
...
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>darkwake=0 PCIRootUID=1 nvda_drv=1</string>
---------------------------------------------
i updated the CUDA drivers first to 5.0.59, maybe that was my mistake?
any hints?

same thing for me with GTX 650 (macpro 3,1)

 

[inactive-user]

Try this:

1. Open Finder
2. Navigate to /Extra/org.chameleon.Boot.plist
3. Open in TextEdit
4. Add nvda_drv=1 to Kernel Flags or add a new key as shown:

[COLOR=#3E3E3E]<key>Kernel Flags</key>[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#3E3E3E]<string>darkwake=0 nvda_drv=1</string>[/COLOR]

or add a new key

[COLOR=#3E3E3E]<key>nvda_drv</key>[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#3E3E3E]<string>1</string>[/COLOR]

There is no Go!

Adding new Key:
[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#3E3E3E]<key>nvda_drv</key>[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#3E3E3E]<string>1</string>[/COLOR]

Result:
Does NOT made any change to my system or Driver version number, still OS X Default Version.

Adding:
nvda_drv=1 to Kernel Flags:

[COLOR=#3E3E3E]<key>Kernel Flags</key>[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#3E3E3E]<string>darkwake=0 nvda_drv=1</string>[/COLOR]

Result:
Made a change to my Driver version number, it shows now "GPU Driver Version: 8.14.11 (313.01.01f03)"
However, in the panel (menu bar) it always remains on OS X Default Driver.

Again to be clear.
After adding "nvda_drv=1 to Kernel Flags"
Driver version number is now always set to the new one "8.14.11 (313.01.01f03)" no matter if i start up using Default or Web Driver, always same
GPU Driver Version "8.14.11 (313.01.01f03)"

I can't change between OS X Default Driver and Nvidia Web Driver, selecting and rebooting has no effect.

PS. as i saw the new GPU Driver version i mediately launched a Game to see if it works, and what happen? I had the first random freeze.
So even with the correct GPU Driver version number, i had already a freeze after like 4 mins.
thanks

 

[telepati]

Article: NVIDIA Releases Mountain Lion 10.8.3 Graphics Drivers

Me.

Really! I still dont get it why can I get to everytime installation failed? Do you use 1 HD+1SD for fusion drive?

 

[Rackham]

anyone seeing improvement in benchmarks like Luxmark / CUDA-Z or in openGL apps ??

 

[inactive-user]

Article: NVIDIA Releases Mountain Lion 10.8.3 Graphics Drivers

When the "NVIDIA Web Driver" is selected in the menu, it adds "nvda_drv=1" to boot-args into the NVRAM (check this with nvram -p), however, on a hack we don't have a true NVRAM, so when you reboot the NVIDIA Web Drivers are not loaded. One has to manually add nvda_drv=1 to the boot args. I did this and now I am running using the Nvidia web drivers.

BTW, I am using a GT 530 oem card.

i have checked it with (nvram-p), and i get:
Boot-Args nvda_drv=1, so i think it's ok, but there is also something about "IOPowerManagement <INVALID>" written, what means that?

 

[Dr_Oh]

Article: NVIDIA Releases Mountain Lion 10.8.3 Graphics Drivers

Inside the Nvidia Driver Manager it says Nividia Geforce GTX 660 Ti not supported and when I try ti enable the ECC it un-checks on reboot. so what must I do?

I haven't thoroughly dug into it, but I can't get the drivers to work for my 660 Ti either. I have added the string to the chameleon plist, but it still doesn't boot up using the new drivers. On the site it only specifics only the 680 so I am thinking other cards may not be supported (?). If anyone else has additional info feel free to chime in.