Hi i am building a hackintosh
Q6600 processor
4gb ddr2 800mhz ram
500gb sata hdd
sata dvdrw
HD4850 gpu
P5K-VM Motherboard

I want to be able to use logic pro 8 but i have seen that both the onboard Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 and the HD 4850 are unsupported. This causes the system to run in VESA mode is it called?

What problems am i going to have using OSX and logic?

I have the option of sending the 4850 back and replacing it with a 9800gtx+ but that would be allot of hassle

Thanks!

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I am running Logic 8 on my laptop, with an unsupported graphics card(x1300 mobility). All Logic requires is that QE and CI(Quartz Extreme and Core Image) are working on your card.
Only thing I had to do was to enable QE and CI by inserting my graphics card ID in the AtiRadeonx1000.kext...

Logic 8 does not work without QE and CI.

I don´t know how you enable QE and CI on your card, but I assume there is a solution for that somewhere here on the forum.

- Ztardust

I have the same issue, ive just bought a retail copy of logic studio 8, i have a nvidia geforce 8500 GT on iATKOS 5i leopard 10.5.5 and am desperate to ge QE working as i just spent under 300 on the software

why don't you get a supported card for 30EUR and save yourself the pain?

Which graphics cards are the most commonly supported, and cause the least hassle then ? , i may actually go and buy another.

Absolutely there is the solution ,personally i run logic 8 with a poor video card cost me 50€ NV 8400 GS 128 RAM and all is perfect,im happy with it

Problem solved, i reached in to funds and made the jump..........i bought me a real macbook dont regret it one bit

You must've dug deep into the funds then!

Hi,

I've got the same problem. I have to get the QE/CI running first on my 9800GT before I install it. Now the problem is logic says I've got 0 NVRAM but in the system profiler It says I've got 512 NVRAM. Do anyone knows how to solve this problem? Thanks

Yes.. I too have the same exact problem... The logic installer says I have 0 of the recommended 64M VRAM

I was able to forcefully install Logic Studio 8 by using pacifist. However there is a problem... Logic itself doesn't do a check whether you have at least 64M VRAM, but it does not run properly...

I wonder if it's because of the lack of a video card driver(kext) for my Intel GMA 4500M, or like Ztardust said, is it because of QE and CI are not enabled?

Logic loads up fine and I can create a new project, but added a midi clip and drawing some notes and trying to play them results in no sound output... Even though I have my sound working with VoodoHDA.

I suppose I have to change the preferences, and select an audio output... However, when I try to goto the preferences either through the button, the menu, or the keyboard shortcut the program freezes and the window never pops up... I have to forcefully quit logic to fix it. One time I have actually gotten the preferences window to show up, but I couldn't click anything as like I said logic freezes.

Is this because of a lack of a driver? or lack of QE?

take a look at this image:



As you can see Core Image (CI) says: Software... Does that mean its enabled (with software acceleration only, no hardware acceleration) or is that not what it supposed to say.

QuartzGL is enabled... but Quartz Extreme says its not supported...

Is there some hack I can do to get logic working good without needing a driver?

Like maybe take a GMA 950 driver and patch in my device id ? How would I do that?

Or somehow change the preferences manually to configure the audio device?

Maybe since I didn't use the logic installer because I couldn't get past that part, and used pacifist instead. It did not install properly and thats why it doesn't work?

What can I do? I really need logic to work...

I'm a music producer and this has put a wall up in my process...

My logic looks like this right now...


I hit play before taking the screenshot, yet I wasn't hearing anything from logic. Also on the left side, things are crossed out, and the bars don't go up!


Thanks for your help.

Sorry - I very much doubt you will be able to get Logic running as it wants QE/CI - which you don't have.

to run logic without qe you can install logic with pacifist or copy the logic installer packages to your hdd
-> right click -> "Paketinhalt anzeigen" (in german i thin in english it is Show content)
-> then go into the folders -> go to the file "Requirements checker" -> right click show content
-> there must be a minsys.plist or something like that an in this file you replace all the "block" with "warn".
-> save the file an start the the setup
-> the warning pops up but the installation can continued now

hope that helps

EDIT:

Never Mind I Got it with the last post before me!!! thank u

I use two noname silent really cheap 7300gs 512 mb pcie videocards and they work good, gives me four displays. I bought the cards on ebay from small hk store. They have a new 3d version of it now, if you look under operating systems it say it works with mac osx. If you use a Nvinject.kext I uploaded to a thread of mine in the hardware and drivers graphics part here you will get QE and everything you need to get Logic upp running.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/nVIDIA-GeForce-7300-...3A11%7C294%3A30

I got 7600GT with QE CI enabled but Logic's GUI very slow. What's wrong?
Config in sign. Thx.