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Frequently Asked Questions About NVIDIA PC (non-EFI) Graphics Cards

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^^^^Things go much better now. When you had your experience, Nvidia didn't have the Preference Pane they now have, and installing the Web Driver meant deleting the Apple Driver. That is no longer the case. The Apple Driver stays intact, and you can toggle back and forth between the two if you choose. But, restarts are required. Like Asgorath, my recent experience wit the Web Drivers has been positive.

Lou
 
Just to get things sorted out...

Hi, I asked a question about the 750 ti and if it works at all with Mavericks and/or Yosemite and the answer which I believe I got was No for Mavericks and Yes for Yosemite if you have web-drivers enabled?

Is my conclusion correct, if so I will purchase the 750ti since it's on a good sale and free shipping.

Thanks.
 
Sohaib Najam said:
Hi, I asked a question about the 750 ti and if it works at all with Mavericks and/or Yosemite and the answer which I believe I got was No for Mavericks and Yes for Yosemite if you have web-drivers enabled?

Is my conclusion correct, if so I will purchase the 750ti since it's on a good sale and free shipping.

Thanks.
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That is correct, yes.
 
flowrider said:
^^^^Things go much better now. When you had your experience, Nvidia didn't have the Preference Pane they now have, and installing the Web Driver meant deleting the Apple Driver. That is no longer the case. The Apple Driver stays intact, and you can toggle back and forth between the two if you choose. But, restarts are required. Like Asgorath, my recent experience wit the Web Drivers has been positive.

Lou
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My experiences had been perfect before 10.9.3; For some reason, the Web drivers cause weird issues. While the Web drivers are active, they work fine during usage. However, any time I need to reboot, such as when rebooting from Windows through bootcamp I get the "Your computer shut down because of a problem" dialogue. The stock Apple drivers do not do this.
 
Added some info about the nv_disable=1 boot arg, and preliminary Maxwell stuff.
 
Nvidia Gtx 750Ti Works

Hi everyone, thanks for all the help in the past few days, I got my card today and have attached a screenshot to prove that the web drivers under public beta 4 works.:cool:
 

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^^^^Great, Looks to me like your using PB4. In PB4 the word Beta was removed from the "About This Mac" Box.

Lou
 
Mavericks (10.9.5)
I've tested the Quadro FX 3700, QC/CI works great OOB!
Best $25 8800gt money can buy!
 
Hi, came across this thread a long time ago and bought a GTX570 based on the advice here, which has been working fine under OS X 10.8 in a Mac Pro 3,1... all acceleration enabled in Premiere Pro and OpenGL/OpenCL.

I updated to 10.9.5 the other day, which went fine, and soon after the NVIDIA settings app requested to upgrade to 334.01.03f01. This also seemed to go well, but after rebooting only a grey screen appeared. Some instructions told me to reset the NVRAM, but the problem remained. I was forced to put the old ATI Radeon HD 2600 back in to get the computer to boot to desktop again. I tried switching to the Apple driver, and uninstalling the NVIDIA driver completely, but I am unable to get it to boot to desktop using the NVIDIA card.

Even more annoying, there is now no acceleration using the ATI card, any effects like Launchpad, the genie-effect window minimization etc, are painfully slow, taking several seconds to render. I downloaded the OpenGL extensions viewer and it shows only the Apple Software Renderer with 0MB of memory available. The ATI card is properly recognised in the 'About this Mac' menu though. Any thoughts on where or how I screwed up? Is there a way to re-enable OpenGL on either card (preferably NVIDIA) without a full reinstall?

Thanks!
 
I think you may be schrod (sorry - I'm from Boston). I have both a GTX570 and a MacVidCards flashed GTX580 installed in my cMP 5.1. With one of the recent Mavericks upgrades, the Nvidia web drivers now don't work at all, as my Mac hangs with a gray screen on boot up. I can get back to the Apple drivers by using Opt-CMD-P-R upon reboot to reset the PRAM. OpenCL still doesn't work using the Apple drivers, although CUDA works fine on Premiere and After Effects CC 2014. If I remove the GTX570, everything works fine on the GTX580 with the Nvidia drivers, but then I can only use two of my three monitors.
 
That's weird. Do you think the incompatibility is between the GTX570 and Mavericks specifically? I think it is more likely a problem in the recent driver versions, otherwise why did it allow me to log in the first time after upgrading to Mavericks, but before updating the web driver? Is there something I can modify in the hardware detection kexts to test this?
 
When do Official Drivers come out?

Title says it all, I just want to know when Nvidia is going to be releasing the official drivers for Yosemite. They worked in PB5 now they're not compatible nor do the GM drivers work.

Thanks.
 
Thanks Asgorath! Stellar job as usual!

How is Yosemite behaving on day 2? :D I'm running a 3,1 with a GTX650tiSC and a windows7 volume for bootcamp. Any changes to bootcamp that would interfere with this?
 
Sohaib Najam said:
Well I've updated to the latest drivers however all I have is a black screen. Yes I made sure I'm on the web drivers. Tried twice. No dice.
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You do realize you'll have a black screen until the system has booted all the way to the desktop, right? What system are you using? Do you have any other GPUs in the system? How are you confirming you're running the web drivers? What are your boot-args?
 
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You do realize you'll have a black screen until the system has booted all the way to the desktop, right? What system are you using? Do you have any other GPUs in the system? How are you confirming you're running the web drivers? What are your boot-args?
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Yes I do. By black screen I mean non stop. I have an SSD. I'm the one who posted with a screen shot that the 750ti Works under public beta 4 just above. I have my old 5770 from Apple. And I have the Nvidia control panel where it allows me to switch between between OS X default drivers or nvidia web drivers.
 
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