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Hi, I have a Gateway laptop P-6801m FX with a Geforce 8800M GTS 512 MB on it, I installed Kalyway 10.5.1 and update with kalyway 10.5.2, I installed the leopard graphics update, and use efi studio to create efi string, this give me full QE CI, I probe my new hackintosh with some games to test performance, Tomb Raider Aniversary and Halo Unibin works but the performance is like a x3100 or so, If I run the Open GL exensions viewer in the test I have 220 fps int every test and 96 fps in the opengl 2.1 test, I saw some bench with other graphics like 8600M GT with score in the 1800 or more range. I think that uptate to 10.5.3 gives me some improvements, and download the apple update combo and use the netkas guide to update, install the ps2nub for support for my keyboard and touchpad, every works fine but QE CI is not there.

 

I remove the Efi string and install nvkush, no results, I did the manual installation from Krazubu and not working either, I use any other method to get Full QE CI in 10.5.3 without luck.

 

with kext on 10.5.2 full QE CI, with efi string or nvinjectgo BAD PERFORMANCE

with kext on 10.5.2 graphics update full QE CI with efi string or nvinjetgo BAD PERFORMANCE

with kext on 10.5.3 no QE CI full resolution change, methods tested efi string, manual edit from krazubu, nvkush and many nvinject with the ioprobe score with 0 value

 

Please help

 

Hardware

Geforce 8800M GTS 512 MB id 0609 ( is the same in 8800 GS imac)

Core2Duo 5750 2Ghz

3GB Ram

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Hi, it seems something with the kexts from 10.5.3 an up its not working, I tried the last 10.5.5 beta drivers without luck, I use GFX efi strings and works wirh 10.5.2 kext.

 

Please help me

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Same Problem here, Most install methods give me a kernal panic. ... Bump..

 

Gateway p-6880 Laptop

NVIDIA 8800m GTS

320gig SATA HD

Intel C2D 1.83gHz

4gigs DDR2 677 RAM

 

 

Hi Josh25, I have some semi solution for us about the graphics driver, download the kext here and install it http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=861864 and I give you my modified nvkush, for make it work you need, Leopard 10.5.3 maybe thats why you are getting kernel panics.

 

Hope it helps

NVkush.kext.zip

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Hey Areos, Thanks for that. I downloaded Kalyway 10.5.2 intel/AMD install disk and choose Nvinject 512 in Graphhics options. FULL QE/CI support and resolutions change!!!! Looks beautiful and is stable!! Give it a try, System profiler says its useing nvinject 0.2.0 so mabe give that a try instead of the newer 0.2.1

Best of luck! Josh

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Yes, I works with the kext in 10.5.2 and the leop graphics update, but those kexts doesn´t give me full performance, the kext I post are 10.5.3 beta and give me 2x performance, but only in some apps but its the best I can find.

 

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I have the 6860FX with the 8800M GTS running iAtkos 4i, stock 9.4 kernel. I opted not to select any of the NVidia drivers during install hoping to avoid the black screen problem and at least get to Finder. Anyway - that went smoothly enough. X came up in 1024x768, but System Profiler did see it as an NVidia card.

 

The order of things from here on will seem silly and is the result of not really caring what I broke (have gotten used to starting from scratch) - just stating how I managed to end up with QE/CI/GL enabled on this card/system.

 

I used EFIStudio and selected the 8800 GTS 512. Rebooted. System Profiler now reported the card correctly, but still no QE/CI.

 

Tried OSX86Tools to enable Quartz GL, which it did. After reboot, GL was enabled, but not QE/CI.

 

Then ran NVInstaller v.52 and selected Vanilla (which was probably a mistake). Rebooted. Still no QE/CI.

 

Went back to OSX86Tools and disabled Quartz GL. Rebooted. Now I had QE/CI enabled, GL disabled. VRAM was reported as 256MB, but QE/CI were definitely enabled. XBench and R10 both crashed.

 

Reinstalled NVInstaller and selected 512MB this time. Rebooted. Profiler now showed 512MB.

 

Went back to OSX86Tools and enabled GL. QE and Quartz GL show supported, and CI shows hardware accelerated after reboot. R10 and Xbench both run without issue.

 

PS... System Profiler shows NVinject 0.2.1, so I assume thats what NVInstaller installed.

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OK, If you have QE/CI Enabled what about performance?, you can try some opengl test like gl viewer or openmark to do so.

 

If I run the opengl viewer test I get in all test 420 FPS except opengl 2.1, but if I suspend the machine and try it again I get 3000 FPS in all test except opengl 2.1. If I run Quake 4 it runs very well in 1440x900 4x AA always at 60fps, but in games like tomb raider aniversary I get real bad performance. Its that what I want to test.

 

Thanks for the info, please run the test to compare, and go to /System/Library/Extensions/ and get info in one of the nvidia kext for example Geforce.kext to test the best performance and stable version.

 

Good Luck

 

 

I have the 6860FX with the 8800M GTS running iAtkos 4i, stock 9.4 kernel. I opted not to select any of the NVidia drivers during install hoping to avoid the black screen problem and at least get to Finder. Anyway - that went smoothly enough. X came up in 1024x768, but System Profiler did see it as an NVidia card.

 

The order of things from here on will seem silly and is the result of not really caring what I broke (have gotten used to starting from scratch) - just stating how I managed to end up with QE/CI/GL enabled on this card/system.

 

I used EFIStudio and selected the 8800 GTS 512. Rebooted. System Profiler now reported the card correctly, but still no QE/CI.

 

Tried OSX86Tools to enable Quartz GL, which it did. After reboot, GL was enabled, but not QE/CI.

 

Then ran NVInstaller v.52 and selected Vanilla (which was probably a mistake). Rebooted. Still no QE/CI.

 

Went back to OSX86Tools and disabled Quartz GL. Rebooted. Now I had QE/CI enabled, GL disabled. VRAM was reported as 256MB, but QE/CI were definitely enabled. XBench and R10 both crashed.

 

Reinstalled NVInstaller and selected 512MB this time. Rebooted. Profiler now showed 512MB.

 

Went back to OSX86Tools and enabled GL. QE and Quartz GL show supported, and CI shows hardware accelerated after reboot. R10 and Xbench both run without issue.

 

PS... System Profiler shows NVinject 0.2.1, so I assume thats what NVInstaller installed.

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Ran GLview again in Vista x64 on the same system. 1st time it showed the same numbers pretty much as X. Closed the app then ran it again. This time numbers were in the 3k range for some, 2700 or so for others (expect 2.1 which was around 95). I did it again overclocked to 620 core, 800 mem and it showed the same numbers more or less (2700-3200). Seems like a flaky benchmark to me. I'll try it later on another system which has X and Vista on it (q6600 @ 3.6GHz, 8800 GTS 512)

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