OS 10.9.3 & Nvidia

[riggles]

Here's on odd one. Updated my test bench HD to 10.9.3 and the newest web driver before installing the two Titan Blacks that arrived today. First, my MP won't give me a login screen if I have a graphics card in slot 3 (I was trying to give them some breathing room). So, slots 1 and 2 for now.

But the weird part is that in Octane, if I'm rendering with one card or the other, everything is fine. As soon as I enable both cards, the fan spin up to max instantly and the computer hard restarts, in a matter of 1-2 seconds. Crazy, and frustrating. I'm using the FSP Booster, which was successfully powering my 670 Superclocked and 770 Classified simultaneously, so I don't what the issue is. Don't think it's heat, as it isn't running long enough to generate any.

 

[flowrider]

^^^^I'm assuming you are aware PCIe that slots 1 & 2 and 16 lane slots and slots 3 &4 are 4 lane slots. Using a Graphics Card in either slot 3 or 4 would seriously degrade performance.

Lou

 

[riggles]

^^^^I'm assuming you are aware PCIe that slots 1 & 2 and 16 lane slots and slots 3 &4 are 4 lane slots. Using a Graphics Card in either slot 3 or 4 would seriously degrade performance.

Lou

Yes, I am aware of that. But since it's only for GPU rendering, that bandwidth difference only comes into play when loading the scene into VRAM. After that, the cards operate at the same number-crunching speed. In fact, if there's better cooling between them and it prevents any thermal throttling, it's possible that initial load time discrepancy would be made up for with higher boost speeds that go along with cooler cards. It's all theoretical of course, which is why I wanted to do some testing with my real-world jobs. But I can't, so that's that.

As an update, it seems to have been a power issue. I just got back from Best Buy having purchased a Corsair 750W PSU (more than I needed, but the only one that had enough 6+2 pin cables), hooked it up, and both Titan Blacks run fine.

I know a few people here have been running regular Titans on the FSP Booster or similar, so I'm still curious what the real issue was. Looks like I'm gonna have a frankenstein machine with an open door for a bit until I manage to get the cables routed through the back. Such is life.

 

[pawtracks]

CUDA update is available

http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cuda-6.0.46-driver.html

 

[bartlettpsj]

Radeon 5870 GPU does not wake from sleep

Just ran the update, GPU will not wake from sleep anymore. Have to hard reboot if my computer decides to sleep. Anyone else experiencing this?
-N

Yes, I am experiencing exactly the same issue. I have a Radeon HD 5870 card and was working perfectly under 10.9.2, but under 10.9.3 the machine goes to sleep, when it is awoken by the keyboard, the machine comes alive, but the display stays black (and flashing).

Any suggestions? I tried the newer Web Driver for Netkas and that made no difference.

Can I revert to the older driver and see if that is the problem? If so, how?

 

[MacVidCards]

Yes, I am experiencing exactly the same issue. I have a Radeon HD 5870 card and was working perfectly under 10.9.2, but under 10.9.3 the machine goes to sleep, when it is awoken by the keyboard, the machine comes alive, but the display stays black (and flashing).

Any suggestions? I tried the newer Web Driver for Netkas and that made no difference.

Can I revert to the older driver and see if that is the problem? If so, how?

Web Driver from Nvidia has nothing to do with a 5870, that's all AMD.

 

[flowrider]

As MVC points out. AMD does not provide Drivers to users. AMD Drivers are, to the best of my understanding, jointly developed by Apple and AMD and are provided in the OS. On the other hand, Apple provides Nvidia Drivers developed by Nvidia and Apple and also supplies them with the OS. In addition Nvidia Develops Drivers that work with the Apple OS, are further along in the development cycle and should have higher performance. Nvidia provides these directly to users from it's web site.

In Nvidia's case, there are certain cards utilizing the GK110B chip that do not work with the Apple OS Drivers, but do work with the Nvidia Web Drivers.

But, as has been said, Nvidia Drivers work only with Nvidia Cards and AMD Drivers work only with AMD Cards.

Lou

 

[Redneck1089]

Just want to let people know my experience with updating using a Kepler B card:

I was fearful of updating from 10.9.2 to 10.9.3 because I am using a GTX 780 Ti Classified. I had heard that the native OS X drivers don't play nice with the Ti editions and Titan Black.

Anyways, I ran the update and everything still worked fine! I got right into my desktop. The system told me to update my Nvidia drivers immediately after booting in, which I did. Other than that, no worries or problems.

 

[guategeek]

Hi guys

I have a Mac Pro 1,1 with a EVGA GTX 570 HD in it, I have mavericks 10.9.3 (using the modified boot.efi) it as been working like a charm in all previous versions of mavericks. But now it keeps booting with no video. Some times I can boot two or three times in a row with no problem, but often I have to boot a good 9 or 10 times for it to boot with video. I have an apple 30" cinema on dual-link dvi, and a viewsonic 21" display on dvi.

This sounds similar to some of the problems you all are having. So I tried the Nvidia web driver. With the web driver installed I still got no video on one or two boots, and the two times it did boot I would only get video on the viewsonic dvi display, but nothing on my dual-link apple 30". So I chose to use apples driver and got lucky as it booted right now with video.

Is anyone else having similar problems with old 5xx cards and do you have an idea what else I could try? Its really hard to get any work done when you never know if your machine will boot (especially bad since I dual boot for some 3D stuff that dousn't run in OS X).