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Frequently Asked Questions About NVIDIA PC (non-EFI) Graphics Cards
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This thread is talking about NVIDIA PC cards only, which do not work in Snow Leopard.
This discussion is for NVidia GPUs; I believe there is a similar thread for AMD. That said, the best card would be for what you need to do with it. If you are going for games or 3D rendering, I'd suggest going with an NVidia card over AMD.
EDIT: D'OH! Asgorath beat me to it!
If I am understanding this correctly, this is as simple as installing Nvidia driver for Pascal cards, shutdown, pull existing card (ATI Radeon HD 5870), install new Nvidia 1080, and boot? And I will have boot screen support? or do I need a flashed card for boot screen support? Just looking for clarification. Thanks!
I don't know how he did that? I have an MVC flashed GTX 1080 and get a boot screen. I don't believe Nvidia drivers will install with an (AMD) ATI card installed.
Lou
They will.
Today I installed a new GTX 1060 in my machine. I installed the Nvidia drivers with my old HD 7950 in there. Shut the machine down, switched the cards and booted it all back up again. No problems at all.
I did the same thing when switching from a 7950 to a 980 - drivers installed fine.
Dropped an EVGA GTX 1060 SC (non-EFI) in my 2010 Mac Pro today. To all intents and purposes it works well, however I've noticed that when I wake the computer from sleep some graphical error/glitches occur. I see screen flickering and some tearing in windows that are open. A reboot returns everything to normal.
I have the latest Nvidia drivers as well as the latest version of macOS on my system. Any ideas/suggestions would be welcome.
Edit: Interestingly I just found out that also turning my monitor (Dell Ultrasharp U3415W) off and on again fixes the issue.
Edit: I have also discovered that if I log out and then back in again the problem is resolved. I tried setting my system to automatically request the user to log in after sleep, but this had no effect on the problem.
I have the latest Nvidia drivers as well as the latest version of macOS on my system. Any ideas/suggestions would be welcome.
Edit: Interestingly I just found out that also turning my monitor (Dell Ultrasharp U3415W) off and on again fixes the issue.
Edit: I have also discovered that if I log out and then back in again the problem is resolved. I tried setting my system to automatically request the user to log in after sleep, but this had no effect on the problem.
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Likely a driver issue, not much that can be done about it, outside nVidia. Such are the problems with closed source drivers, and nVidia releasing driver they never plan on supporting, so they can sell PC hardware it Mac folks.
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"This hardware check has been removed as of 346.02.02f02 for 10.10.4 (14E46), so the driver should now just install on any system."
I'm not disputing or agreeing. I just want to know where you got the info. Without credible evidence, I will just take it as speculation and/or guess work. There's another guy on here who regularly spreads BS as fact and I need to know what's real and what's made up.
What part do you dispute?
nVidia has been releasing drivers for the MacOS, that allow PC graphics cards to work, yet they don't list anything as supported by the driver, other than some OEM cards( bata ) and retail Quadro and Geforce Mac cards.
They have no real means of feedback on these drivers, they just release them to sell graphics chips, they then don't have to support.
We all know nVidia drivers are closed source.
And the specific issue that was asked about, like I said, likely a driver issue.
I've been hacking nVidia cards, long before most. I'm not just speaking out my a$$.
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What part do you dispute?
nVidia has been releasing drivers for the MacOS, that allow PC graphics cards to work, yet they don't list anything as supported by the driver, other than some OEM cards( bata ) and retail Quadro and Geforce Mac cards.
They have no real means of feedback on these drivers, they just release them to sell graphics chips, they then don't have to support.
We all know nVidia drivers are closed source.
And the specific issue that was asked about, like I said, likely a driver issue.
I've been hacking nVidia cards, long before most. I'm not just speaking out my a$$.
Didn't I say I wasn't disputing or agreeing with anything? All I asked was where you got your info.
Pascal support for macOS was specifically mentioned by Nvidia. Doesn't everyone release drivers to sell hardware? Who would buy any graphics card for any platform if drivers didn't exist?
Source: The New Titan Is Here: NVIDIA TITAN Xp | NVIDIA Blog
The issue probably is driver related. Anyone who has used computers long enough will come across drivers with bugs.
Since you have been unable to come up with any credible evidence to "nVidia releasing driver they never plan on supporting", I'll just take it that it's just your speculation based on your extensive experience hacking Nvidia cards.
I just had the great folks at Macvidcards flash my GTX980Ti and it works great. Previously I had two screens going and one attached to the old GT120 in slot 2 and the pre flashed GTX980Ti in slot 1 and it worked great.
System profiler shows two cards in slot 1. The folks at Macvidcards say the reason is the audio part of the 980Ti is not supported by Apple. Anyone come up with a fix for this?
Mac Pro 5,1 OSX Sierra 10.12.4
System profiler shows two cards in slot 1. The folks at Macvidcards say the reason is the audio part of the 980Ti is not supported by Apple. Anyone come up with a fix for this?
Mac Pro 5,1 OSX Sierra 10.12.4
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/guide-hdmi-audio.1499797/
Tomorrow i'll try to get it to work with DP to HDMI adapter (unflashed GTX 980).
These are the supported products, from nVidia's latest web drivers.
Now show me where they are supporting the millions of PC graphics cards they have sold by making unsupported drivers that allow these cards to work in a Mac?
^^^^You must know that you're FOS
I'm happily running an MVC flashed GTX 1080 on Nvidia's Web Drivers.
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Lou
Sure you are, and that's the entire point of nVidia releasing drivers that enable these cards to work with Mac's. One of their board partners sold you a PC graphics card.
The problem, I am trying to point out, is nVidia, nor it's board partners, will offer you no support what so ever for your $700+.
It's not right to sell hardware, and not offer at least some form of driver feedback system, so that issues can get fixed.
You may want to check out this post before you keep repeating 'no support whatsoever'.
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-glitchy-after-wake-up.2044750/#post-24567610
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-glitchy-after-wake-up.2044750/#post-24567610
You have every right to not purchase an NVIDIA PC card for your Mac system, and to go and buy an alternative card from AMD instead. Oh wait, AMD doesn't even provide drivers for non-official products, and relies on Apple to provide all their drivers. Okay, you have every right to not upgrade your system and just live with whatever Apple wants you to have.
Personally, I'm extremely happy with my various PC cards including my current GTX 1080. Are the drivers perfect? No, but then again, neither are the stock Apple drivers. There have been bugs across all 3 hardware vendors that have taken a long time to get fixed.
If you have issues, please feel free to post about them here and/or on the geforce.com forums.
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