I just made an installer for the NVIDIA 9 Series Drivers taken from the new Macbookpro Update. Download it here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/156247292/NVID...ver_v2.zip.html

(Latest update- Version 2 - NVIDIA 9700m GTS added 062A-10DE dev id) (For the latest updates always use this link).

My 9800 GTX now uses the correct Open GL Engine.







10.5.5 minimum requirement I would think.

Does this installer support nVidia 9800m GTS? It's a G94 chip.

Thanks!

What is your device id. Do you have 10.5.5? It should support G94.

Does this fix the Fan / Heat Issue?

I think it does, my cards now seem only warm whereas before they were to hot to touch.

Does it support 9800 GX2?

If anyone has any success with this installer and the 9600GT (G94, device id: 0x0622) Please let me know!... I am on 10.5.4 right now so I'm afraid to try it (I tried the new Kext, manually, and it basically screw my installation)... but hmmm 10.5.5 is on its way...slowly...

Alex99,

My 9800 GX2 Hack is at work, so I have not had a chance to try it yet, but I will tomorrow. Keep your fingers crossed!

I'm crossing mine. If it works, you're going to be saving me some money and performance. I was going to trade my 9800 GX2 for a 9800 GTX

My ID is 0x062810DE. My biggest worry is the fact that is a mobile GPU (laptop) so my internal display might not work so great.

Thanks!

That card should work with the drivers. I take it you have basic Vesa working at the minute. You will need to give GFX Strings a go. My walkthrough is here:

http://aquamac.proboards106.com/index.cgi?...&thread=509

Alright, taking a quick look at that guide (thanks for the link, by the way), I see download links for some cards, but nothing for the 9800m GTS. How would I go about making a gfxutil and in.plist for my specific card? Thank you again, I'm a total newb at this so all your help is greatly appreciated

How much memory does your card have?

512mb

Use the input file I have attached below but follow my walkthrough to edit your PCI address. Instructions are in the walkthrough.

Thank you so much! If I could give you a hug right now, I totally would.

In a purely man to man fashion, of course. Nothing gay here.

Is there a chance this would work on 10.5.4?

Whatever I do with my 9800GTX on 10.5.4 I get artifacts and no QE/CI; but res change works.

Tiburon,

I really am not sure. I think you would need the Open GL Framework from 10.5.5 as the very minimum. I have included an installer below:

http://rapidshare.com/files/155602335/10.5...mework.zip.html

Install this first before the kexts download as that install requires you reboot.

This may work or it could mess up your installation. Personally I would give it a go, but then I always keep a cloned backup of my installation if things go wrong!

If you try it and it works on 10.5.4, let me know and I will include the 10.5.5 Framework in the installer at the top of the page.

aqua-mac: is it possible to know which device ids are supported by your driver?? (as I said earlier mine is 0x0622) so far I don't think anyone tried it with a 9600GT??

I tried (9600GT) but it did not work :'(

Is yours a 9600GT or 9600M GT?

If you look here, I included a copy of the plist from NVDANV50HAL:



Look in the list to see if your card is supported.

The device id for my card is 0612. As you can see in the list above 0600 will cover this.

There is also cover for cards such as:

{ 0x0420, "GeForce 8400 SE" },
{ 0x0421, "GeForce 8500 GT" },
{ 0x0422, "GeForce 8400 GS " },
{ 0x0423, "GeForce 8300 GS " },
{ 0x0424, "GeForce 8400 GS " },
{ 0x042C, "GeForce 9400 GT" },
{ 0x042F, "Quadro NVS 290" },
{ 0x0600, "GeForce 8800 GTS 512" },
{ 0x0601, "GeForce 9800 GT" },
{ 0x0602, "GeForce 8800 GT" },
{ 0x0604, "GeForce 9800 GX2" },
{ 0x0605, "GeForce 9800 GT " },
{ 0x0606, "GeForce 8800 GS" },
{ 0x0610, "GeForce 9600 GSO" },
{ 0x0611, "GeForce 8800 GT " },
{ 0x0612, "GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+" },
{ 0x0613, "GeForce 9800 GTX+" },
{ 0x0614, "GeForce 9800 GT " },
{ 0x061A, "Quadro FX 3700" },
{ 0x0622, "GeForce 9600 GT" },
{ 0x0623, "GeForce 9600 GS" },
{ 0x0640, "GeForce 9500 GT" },
{ 0x0641, "GeForce 9400 GT " },
{ 0x0643, "GeForce 9500 GT " },
{ 0x0644, "GeForce 9500 GS" },
{ 0x0645, "GeForce 9500 GS " },
{ 0x06E0, "GeForce 9300 GE" },
{ 0x06E1, "GeForce 9300 GS" },
{ 0x06E2, "GeForce 8400" },
{ 0x06E3, "GeForce 8400 SE " },
{ 0x06E4, "GeForce 8400 GS

If you find it does not work, directly overwrite the device id that is nearest to yours. You will have to copy NVDANV50HAL to your desktop. Open it up, edit the Info.plist with text edit then use permissions repair script to fix your kext permissions.

Thanks a lot for the all the info aqua-mac! (and for this driver!) I'll give it a try as soon as 10.5.5 is installed... right now I'm a bit nervous to try it on 10.5.4...

No Problem. Well, I'm off to watch "Frost" now on TV!

See you tomorrow!

is there support for nvidia 9700m gts?

just installed it gave me full resolution support at 1440X900 but no QE with nvidia 9700m gts
any way for QE?

same for 9600m gt....no QE but full resolution support

GREAT,in my acer5930g all works good,resolution and qe/ci.

9600m gt 0649-10de

just uses this installer? no efi?
what is your vram? did you add/overwrite devid in nvdanvhal50.kext?

Hey, thanks aqua-mac.

Did you notice that the fan of the card behave like Windows with this drivers, On first boot after install of these drivers fan starts to increasing its speed, then back to low speed, I never had this on Mac OS but on windows.

The only problem I noticed is that OpenGL Viewer Extension test only shows 800x600 and 640x480 resolutions. So i couldnt compare fps with my previous tests because I did with 1440x1050.

Hi guys, there are rumors that h264 decoding is also supported by these new drivers .. can someone upload AppleVAH264HW.component quicktime component ? Maybe we can get ... hardware decoding for our 8xxx card too. Btw, I have an 8800GT (G92) and I wonder if it is possible to make this drivers working .. Also I winder if, it is possible to have beside the before component and the new version of quicktime ...

where did you get this rumor? I'm anxious to see H264 hardware decoding comes to OS X, because my CPU is a bit weak, so I can only watch those HD movies under windows new.

It is not a rumor, even if I have get the news from appleinsider and macrumors ... , it is a fact ... so .... it will be a big and huge improvement for us. All the tests show an huge decrease on cpu usage ... Snow it is coming ... in advance

Well, my 9800 GX2 is now seen as a 9800 GX2 with these drivers, I cannot put up a pic yet as my website is on a home computer and I am now at work, but you can download one here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/155725632/GX2_...ENGINE.zip.html

I will try in slot 1 shortly.

Oooh sounds cool. Just got a 9800gtx and plan to do a fresh install to replace the 10.5.2 iatkos I have now. Once I get to 10.5.5, do I still need the EFI GFX Strings or will this driver installer do do all the dirty work? Thanks!

No you will still need GFX Strings.

please auqamac try in slot 1. i'm x48 rampage formula, i've tried nvacp custom, nvcap fro efitudio..your driver in the first post..a lotof things but or blue screen or qurz disable and freeze after a bit..please try 1 the first slot ..you're my hope!.thanks

hi there, today just got a 9500GT with native HDMI port, and it works like a charm~~~

Thanks a lot for this driver! It is working like a charm with my EVGA GeForce 9600 GT

Here's what I had to do to make it work:

I installed iDeneb 10.5.5 without any video drivers (i.e. not picking any video drivers options) at this point it wouldnt even boot in Normal Mode, only in safe mode...

I downloaded your driver, installed it... repaired permissions, rebooted, now I could boot in normal mode, but I would get a really funky result when I tried to move windows etc.. and still couldnt change resolution...

I generated an EFI string following the instructions of this post: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=937393 (Using OSx86tools)

Repaired permissions, rebooted... and bam... fully working! With QE/CI, TV Out is working, everything is looking smooth!

Thanks aquamac, you kick ass. The driver works just fine on my 1st gen penryn MBP with the 512MB 8600GT. Perhaps the only thing that I still need is the OpenGL.framework 1.5.8 from the new MBP and the new build of QuickTime.

I'm about to do this. How do you boot in safe mode?

Yes please, can we have the latest Quicktime and OpenGl drivers from the new macbooks too please?

Right guys,

Glad to hear things are working. You all already have the latest open GL Framework if you have 10.5.5 as there is not one included in the macbook pro update. In fact the update only includes Graphics drivers and a bluetooth update. I did not bother about the bluetooth as I suspect it is specifically for the macbook pro which may have some new bluetooth hardware.

On the subject of the 9800 GX2, it still only is working in the second PCIe slot I am afraid, although it is fully recognized in this 16x slot on my Asus P5E3 Premium wifi@n mainboard.



So there must be some problem with the way the boards we are using address the first 16x PCIe slot combined with the onboard SLi bridge. It is very strange indeed. We know that the 9800 GTX works, so all that is left is the bridge!

This post on the handbrake forums indicates that there is indeed also a Purevideo component to the new driver that the new QT will take advantage of:

http://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?f=14&p=41600

Some people have already requested the file:

/System/Library/QuickTime/AppleVAH264HW.component/Contents/MacOS/AppleVAH264HW

And I would also assume QT needs the following to also work:

/System/Library/Extensions/GeForceVADriver.bundle/Contents/MacOS/GeForceVADriver

My guess is its the second one that is the GFX card driver for Video Accelration (hence the name GeForceVADriver) and the first one is an extension for QT...

This isn't going to improve ffmpeg decoding, but should help quicktime.

From the handbrake forum, both of those files have string references to both VP2 and VP3 which is Purevideo functionality, though the only the newest 9 series Geforce's are supposed to support VP3, the 8600MGT only has the VP2 functionality of Purevideo so hopefully these files will still work on old versions.

AFAIK this is separate functionality from using shaders and OpenCL/CUDA to do decoding/encoding... I mean even in Windows only certain drivers and certain players had support for the DXVA 2.0 stuff...

The ATI Equivalent would be AVIVO/UVD, which is a separate chip on the ATI boards... no idea if they have a VA driver? My guess not since there was no ATI card in the new products just released.

Hi,yes i use only this installer,ideneb 1.1 whit chameleon.9600m gt with 512m ram.

Alright, I finally got the 9800m GTS working after many update problems, res change finally works BUT I can't seem to get QE/CI working properly!! Any and all help would be appreciated

MacBook Update 1.2 does not contain all the files that is new in Late 2008 MBs. It already comes with a different build, SU 1.2 updates is on top of this.
There is a newer version of OpenGL.framework in new MBs.

I installed this driver. Now I've got on my 9600 gt QE, but i cannot switch resolution in control panel. When I changing properties i see a "blue scree". My monitor have got d-sub port, but i must connect it by DVI. What can I do?

Foyaeman,

Are you using GFX Strings or nvinject/NVkush.

Chrysaor,

Thanks for that info.

Kakadu,

You could use a DVI to VGA convertor.

I just followed your EFi strings guide and pasted it into my boot.plist file

I'm still using a DVI to DSUB adapter. I've got two DVI connectors in my card.

//Problem Solved. I switched monitor to other DVI port.