Ok so 75xx and 77xx seems to be on the outs, but 79xx seems to be working....
Has anyone tried to replace the driver from 10.10.2?
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Ok so 75xx and 77xx seems to be on the outs, but 79xx seems to be working....
Has anyone tried to replace the driver from 10.10.2?
I have another Mac that still is on 10.10.2, so I could try copying its driver to my Mac Pro and see if it makes any difference. Anyone know what the exact name of the driver file(s) is, so I don't screw this up? I'm not too used to playing around wit kernel extensions.
OS X 10.10.3 Update
As this seems to be the ATI/AMD GPU thread under OSX 10.10.3, I would like to ask if the ATI XT 2600 HD is still supported in 10.10.3?
I DO depend on my bootscreens!
TIA & Cheers
As this seems to be the ATI/AMD GPU thread under OSX 10.10.3, I would like to ask if the ATI XT 2600 HD is still supported in 10.10.3?
I DO depend on my bootscreens!
TIA & Cheers
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Thanks for the info, Netkas.
I was wrong and my other Mac actually has OS 10.9.5 on it. Still, I tried copying its AMD and ATI extensions to my Mac Pro, but that didn't help anything; I just got a black screen. So I decided to copy back the 10.10.3 driver files to my extentions folder (I had saved them); then I got back an image on my display, but I lost hardware acceleration. No idea why. There must have been a simpler way to fix this, but as I said I don't know much about playing around with extensions, so I reinstalled Yosemite from scratch and then copied my user files from a backup. Fun times!
I don't know if the 10.10.2 drivers would have worked any better. The Yosemite installer from the Mac App Store is already at 10.10.3 so I don't know how to get a hold of a 10.10.2 system to copy the files.
In any case, it would seem to me that even if the 10.10.2 files did work on 10.10.3, this would not be a good long term solution anyway. If the 10.9.5 drivers don't work on 10.10.3, I suppose there's a good possibility the 10.10.2 drivers won't work once Apple releases 10.11, and then we're back to square one.
So once again, thanks Apple.
I was wrong and my other Mac actually has OS 10.9.5 on it. Still, I tried copying its AMD and ATI extensions to my Mac Pro, but that didn't help anything; I just got a black screen. So I decided to copy back the 10.10.3 driver files to my extentions folder (I had saved them); then I got back an image on my display, but I lost hardware acceleration. No idea why. There must have been a simpler way to fix this, but as I said I don't know much about playing around with extensions, so I reinstalled Yosemite from scratch and then copied my user files from a backup. Fun times!
I don't know if the 10.10.2 drivers would have worked any better. The Yosemite installer from the Mac App Store is already at 10.10.3 so I don't know how to get a hold of a 10.10.2 system to copy the files.
In any case, it would seem to me that even if the 10.10.2 files did work on 10.10.3, this would not be a good long term solution anyway. If the 10.9.5 drivers don't work on 10.10.3, I suppose there's a good possibility the 10.10.2 drivers won't work once Apple releases 10.11, and then we're back to square one.
So once again, thanks Apple.
There is a decent chance the 10.10.2 drivers would work better in that the kernel/library/operating system changes are just bigger between 10.9.x and 10.10.x than just a 0.0.x release.
That said, I agree it's not a good long term solution to have to mess with driver extensions, but it could be an ok tide over solution if Apple bothers to fix this in 10.10.4
I browsed around and found this
http://www.tonymacx86.com/graphics/161511-radeon-hd-7750-xfx-glitchy-after-10-10-3-update.html
it works with my Sapphire HD7750.
Question answered, the ATI XT 2600 HD (only for bootscreens) is still supported in 10.10.3! GTX-670 (PC) is my main GPU.
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/20985631/
Cheers
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2600XT will likely be supported for some time to come as it was an official shipping card. Sadly it doesn't have OpenCl at all so that may become an issue.
Issues with things like 7750 and 7770 are due to fact that they weren't.
Issues with things like 7750 and 7770 are due to fact that they weren't.
This might be a stupid question but I couldn't find a satisfactory answer with search.
Like other people here my non-EFI GTX 760 stopped working in my 2009 Mac Pro after the 10.10.3 update.
Fortunately I had my HD 4870 at home so I swapped it over, installed the Nvidia Web Driver, reinstalled the GTX 760 and all was well.
My GTX 760 is powered by 2 x 6 pin plugs (as is the HD 4870 when it's installed).
My GTX 760 is currently installed in Slot 1. Is it possible to concurrently put the HD 4870 into Slot 2 but leave it disconnected from a monitor and without the 2 x 6pin plugs? Only reason I ask is that I'm anticipating future OS updates will break my GTX 760 (pending new drivers) and it would be less hassle to have the HD 4870 in there, change over the 6 pin plugs pre-update and wait for the new drivers). I'm afraid that if I leave it in there with a working GTX 760, it'll draw too much power from the backboard and damage my machine.
Thoughts?
Like other people here my non-EFI GTX 760 stopped working in my 2009 Mac Pro after the 10.10.3 update.
Fortunately I had my HD 4870 at home so I swapped it over, installed the Nvidia Web Driver, reinstalled the GTX 760 and all was well.
My GTX 760 is powered by 2 x 6 pin plugs (as is the HD 4870 when it's installed).
My GTX 760 is currently installed in Slot 1. Is it possible to concurrently put the HD 4870 into Slot 2 but leave it disconnected from a monitor and without the 2 x 6pin plugs? Only reason I ask is that I'm anticipating future OS updates will break my GTX 760 (pending new drivers) and it would be less hassle to have the HD 4870 in there, change over the 6 pin plugs pre-update and wait for the new drivers). I'm afraid that if I leave it in there with a working GTX 760, it'll draw too much power from the backboard and damage my machine.
Thoughts?
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1807?locale=en_US
Has anyone done this supplemental update and seen if it fixes their video card issues?
It says it deals with video capture, but I'm hoping it fixes the borkup with video they've done to 10.10.3....
I had made modifications to the AMDRadeonX4000.kext as described in the tonymacx86.com link posted above, and it worked to return functionality to my Radeon 7770. I've now installed the 10.10.3 supplemental update and here are my observations:
- Looking at the creation and modified dates of AMDRadeonX4000.kext, it seems the supplemental update did not change it in any way. This means that unless they found a way to fix the problem by updating a different extension, the supplemental update will not fix the issue introduced in 10.10.3 for those of us with Radeon 7xxx cards. However, since I have a working system now, I'm too lazy to actually verify this by installing fresh 10.10.3 and supplemental updates.
- On the other hand, if you apply the fix described in the tonymac link (which does work), then the supplemental update will not break that as it does not modify the hacked extension.
Hopefully this info can be of help to someone.
- Looking at the creation and modified dates of AMDRadeonX4000.kext, it seems the supplemental update did not change it in any way. This means that unless they found a way to fix the problem by updating a different extension, the supplemental update will not fix the issue introduced in 10.10.3 for those of us with Radeon 7xxx cards. However, since I have a working system now, I'm too lazy to actually verify this by installing fresh 10.10.3 and supplemental updates.
- On the other hand, if you apply the fix described in the tonymac link (which does work), then the supplemental update will not break that as it does not modify the hacked extension.
Hopefully this info can be of help to someone.