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Webdriver for GTX 1080&1070
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GTX aside for a moment, I'm curious. Why is the phrase webdriver or web driver sometimes used for graphics drivers?
@AidenShaw thanks, is it a phrase that Nvidia alone chose to use? I mean, it's so commonplace to find driver sofware downloadable from the web sites of hardware developers/vendors.
Is 'Webdriver' meant to mean 'ignoring any update feature that's integral to an already installed driver'? (Not the best choice of words, but do you see what I mean?)
Is 'Webdriver' meant to mean 'ignoring any update feature that's integral to an already installed driver'? (Not the best choice of words, but do you see what I mean?)
If you go to the nVidia's Mac driver page, you'll see in Additional Information tab that they are using NVIDIA Web Driver and NVIDIA Driver Manager all the time.
Not sure who said it first though, nvidia or users.
^^^^What????? Can not understand what this means????
The term is ONLY used for Nvidia GPU drivers, available here:
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD (ATI) supplies no drivers directly to the consumer.
I don't recall where the term "Web Drivers" was coined, but it didn't come from Nvidia. Nvidia drivers for the Mac work on all Nvidia GPUs, AFAIK, except Pascal cards. Hopefully Pascal support will be forthcoming. Apple's Nvidia support stopped with the GTX680. Although my GTX780, with the rev A chip works with Apple drivers, I use the Web Drivers. When the Web Driver is installed, it also installs the Nvidia Driver Manager, a Control Panel, that allows you to choose the graphics driver you wish to use.
Lou
The term is ONLY used for Nvidia GPU drivers, available here:
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD (ATI) supplies no drivers directly to the consumer.
I don't recall where the term "Web Drivers" was coined, but it didn't come from Nvidia. Nvidia drivers for the Mac work on all Nvidia GPUs, AFAIK, except Pascal cards. Hopefully Pascal support will be forthcoming. Apple's Nvidia support stopped with the GTX680. Although my GTX780, with the rev A chip works with Apple drivers, I use the Web Drivers. When the Web Driver is installed, it also installs the Nvidia Driver Manager, a Control Panel, that allows you to choose the graphics driver you wish to use.
Lou
On Windows, sure. On Mac, not so much. Given the normally closed nature of the Mac platform, people normally expect that their system will just work without having to go and download third-party drivers.
For example, when the Quadro 4000 was originally released, you needed to install the NVIDIA drivers to make the card work. Otherwise, it was operating in simple EFI mode and thus used software rendering. Tons of people were complaining online about how hot the card was getting and how slow it was. When the next OS release from Apple included drivers for it, all of those complaints magically disappeared.
Thanks, it reminded me that I had the NVIDIA pane of System Preferences on Mavericks. Early 2009 MacBookPro5,2 with GeForce 9600M GT and GeForce 9400M so whilst I occasionally found and applied updates through that pane, I never expected any such update to change how the hardware was driven. Observing things in that pane simply satisfied my curiosity.
My memory of visiting NVIDIA's web site, to gain that preference pane, is clear … no memory of the company associating it with "web driver", but I think that we have that covered now; thanks folks.
Now that macOS Sierra is out, I am hoping for new web drivers tomorrow. But more importantly Pascal support.
Does anyone know if CUDA 8 will be coming soon to OSX? I can't find any info.
Does anyone know if CUDA 8 will be coming soon to OSX? I can't find any info.
New final driver for Sierra. According to the top forum salesboy the Titan X is finally 10% faster than a 780 in OpenGL. Wow...10%....amazing Maxwell support
I've pretty much given up with OS X on my Mac Pro, configured it for Windows 10 only and it works really well. If I want to get a new GPU, it'll just work, albeit I'll lose the EFI boot menu, and possibly some performance because of CPU, RAM and PCIe negitiation issues, but it'll still be better.
If it doesn't work that well, can always save up, buy a new system, use the new card and sell the Mac Pro. Not really tied to OS X any more.
If it doesn't work that well, can always save up, buy a new system, use the new card and sell the Mac Pro. Not really tied to OS X any more.
Next year. But frankly people are already buying up even cheaper server CPUs to build very cheap fast render boxes that are not inhibited by that terrible compartment design and non modular PSU of the cMP.
Font rendering with the Sierra web driver is a bit crap compared to native drivers. Most noticeable in small menu bar fonts like SMC Fan Control and Photoshop palettes.
Screenshots? Also, what does that have to do with Pascal?
i hope they do pastel support and i think what he meant by support for the cap is os support they won't drop all cmps next year from the os support list especially since the 2010 through 2012 are praticly the same system theres no way id say at a minimum they will give the 5.1 a few more versions id say cmps will get to 10.16 10.17 around that ground.
Would not shock me in the least if support were dropped for all non Thunderbolt equipped macs (next major OS).
I plan on pulling the trigger and purchasing a 1070 however I am needing to know when will NVIDIA eventually release drivers compatible for 10.12. I actually have 3x hackintoshes and have 2 of them already updated to Sierra.
Very likely never. But even if Nvidia enabled the device IDs, the driver will most likely stay in beta. The last generation never left beta and never had an official licensed release.