[success]nVidia 9500GT QE/CI enabled, with gfx efi string on 10.5x and Snow Leopard 10.6.x Options

[marionez]

Device Information:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0640] (rev a1)

Needed:
- your specific 9500gt NVCAP (read how to obtain down this post)
- osx86tools
- OSx 10.5.6 or 10.5.7 running (not previous versions, 10.5.7 or at least 10.5.6 frameworks needed)
- Nvidia 2009 modified drivers: I attached on #33 (click to download) these are newer then 10.5.6 and older then 10.5.7, so those above 10.5.6 doesn't need those kexts
- kexthelper http://cheetha.net/

NOTE: those who are running latest 10.5.7 OSx don't need *any* kext driver installation, because they have latest nvidia driver available atm already native installed. So starts from the EFI string creation, as stated down this post.

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How to get your NVCAP (you can search the forum, anyway):
You have to get your specific nvidia video card ROM, something like this http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=246530

The software you need to obtain your NVIDIA rom file is nvflash and you can simple google for it, then you must boot in DOS, with a usbkey, or maybe in your windows partition, you save your *own* nvidia rom bios file (and this is the reason I didn't any one-click-install), then you give it to NVCAP MAKER and now you have the NVCAP string, you need this while creating the EFI string.
Reflector says: it's easier to use NVIDIA BIOS Editor to save the ROM instead of using NVflash though as it runs in windows
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Unneded:
- remove from /System/Library/Extension every nvidia injector (natit titan nvinjector nvdarwin etc etc) you could have installed, then remove /System/Library/Extension.mkext.
If you've never installed one you're clean and ready to go.

Howto get QE/CI enabled on 9500gt, let's start:
- ONLY for 10.5.6 (this is unneded for those with 10.5.7 and above) install Nvidia 2009 modded drivers for 9500gt(CLICK) with kexthelper
- clean everything with OSx86tools check all the options on main panel, run permission repair and clear extension kext
[those with 10.5.7 and ABOVE SL included starts HERE and they don't need any kext installation]
- again on osx86tools: click on the button add efi string
- click on gfx string
- choose custom geforce (you need to scroll the list is the last one)
- enter your video card name: nVidia GeForce 9500 GT
- enter your video card memory size
- NOW choosing your display configuration, choose custom
- enter *your* NVCAP
- import string to boot editor
- apply changes to com.apple.boot.plist
- reboot with -x -v -f
- shutdown and boot

You can even enable Quartz Extreme from the main panel of osx86tools "enable/disable quartz GL"


Snow Leopard removed the QE/CI notification in "About this mac", read this: http://prasys.co.cc/2009/09/quartz-extreme...n-snow-leopard/

My Peak 9500GT 1GB with DVI TV-out and VGA connectors, has this NVCAP: 0400000000000300040000000000000700000000
So if you have the same GPU from Peak you can use it. Note, this NVCAP should even work with some other 9500GTs, read the thread about this.

[marionez]

OK I got it.

Update to 10.5.6 then without any injector, I entered the device id in the new nVidia Driver (NVDANV50Hal.kext/ NVDAResman.kext/)updated with 10.5.6, added the EFI string to boot.pl with osxtools giving the NVCAP string.

Now it's harware accelerated with QE enabled