Tredvesone Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Hi, I get only 36 at Cinebench with my XFX Radeon HD 6870 2GB ("Dual Fan -DD" edition). My older GTX 260 got 32. Is there any solution out there? I recon this is a very low score for this card. Lion 10.7.2 Chimera 1.7 Duckweed Thank you in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artur_pt Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 hello is applegraphicspowermanagement loaded ? what smbios are u using ? good hack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tredvesone Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 Hi, I'm not sure if AppleGraphicsPowerManagement.kext is loading. smbios: <key>SMfamily</key> <string>Mac Pro</string> <key>SMmemspeed</key> <string>1866</string> <key>SMproductname</key> <string>MacPro5,1</string> <key>SMbiosversion</key> <string>Gigabyte EX58-UD5 v1</string> Any solution that might help? thanks Edit: btw... I can see that AppleGraphicsPowerManagement is in System Profiler/System Information under Extensions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artur_pt Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 hello what is the device id from the graphics card ? i can prepare a kext for u to test good hack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tredvesone Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 ATI Barts AMD Radeon HD 6870 Series 2048MB (Duckweed) [1002:6738] (subsys [1682:310a]):: PciRoot(0x1)/Pci(0x3,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0) But what do you think is the problem? Driver is not loading correctly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artur_pt Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 hello i think the problem is graphicspowermanagement i prepare the kext in the night and post here, for you to test good hack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tredvesone Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 Hi again. okey, no worries tho. Take your time, I'm gonna take it out and put on a new cooler anyway pretty soon. The fans are working too much. Probably because of the powermanagment... tnx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artur_pt Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 hello i send two kext try one and another and use the best fit to u test also with openglviewer4 is free in apple store good hack 6870.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tredvesone Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 Thanks! I can put it in E/E ? And what changes have you done if I may ask? Do I have to install some ATI drivers btw? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artur_pt Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 hello put it in s/l/e the atidrivers must be loaded are from the system see with kextstat in terminal and see this http://olarila.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=736 good hack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tredvesone Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 Tnx, I'll give it a go soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tredvesone Posted January 10, 2012 Author Share Posted January 10, 2012 For everyone else with the same card and wanna try out the kexts. You'r welcome to share some feedback as well. I can't do anything until tomorrow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mant3ra Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 I have same card, well its not the same, its gigabyte 6870 1gb, but i have same problem, i upgraded from 5770 and now in cinebench i have like 1-2 more fps, which is i guess not worth of upgrading if its slow like that. And other thing is that most of apps report my card not by name, well it says its: ATI RADEON BARTS XT PROTOTYPE OPENGL ENGINE and its not identiyied like before by its name. And 3th thing, i cant see AppleGraphicsPowerManagement kext loaded when i go in system info / extensions so may this be problem or? :S Can some of you plz help me i want to make this card to work like it shuld work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tredvesone Posted January 10, 2012 Author Share Posted January 10, 2012 I guess artur can help you. I've seen people get 52 in Cinebench with 1GB card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artur_pt Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 hello post what smbios u are using and device id of your card too if u are using smbios macpro5,1 and your device id is the same, u can use the kext , try one and test, then try the other and use the best for u good hack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tredvesone Posted January 10, 2012 Author Share Posted January 10, 2012 Just wanna add some more info. I checked the kernel log to see if there is any errors. Yes there is indeed... com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController - library kext com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily not found. com.apple.ATIRadeonX3000 - library kext com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily not found. com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC - library kext com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily not found. I dont know if this helps, but I guess it has something do with my 6870? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artur_pt Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 hello to the graphics card to work must loaded 3 / 4 kexts 4 if u use AtiConfig in org.chameleon boot.plist in u case ati6000controller atisuport atiradeonx3000 check in about this mac report extensions or with kext wizard tool http://www.insanelym...howtopic=253395 like i say in the post good hack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tredvesone Posted January 11, 2012 Author Share Posted January 11, 2012 ati6000controller - OK atiradeonX3000 - OK atisupport - OK applegraphicscontroller - OK applegraphicspowermanagment - OK I found out what causing there errors tho, I recon it's because of chimera 1.7. People went back to chameleon r1493 and the problem went away. So it is the bootloader not the 6870. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty___ Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 I have same card, well its not the same, its gigabyte 6870 1gb, but i have same problem, i upgraded from 5770 and now in cinebench i have like 1-2 more fps, which is i guess not worth of upgrading if its slow like that. And other thing is that most of apps report my card not by name, well it says its: ATI RADEON BARTS XT PROTOTYPE OPENGL ENGINE and its not identiyied like before by its name. And 3th thing, i cant see AppleGraphicsPowerManagement kext loaded when i go in system info / extensions so may this be problem or? :S Can some of you plz help me i want to make this card to work like it shuld work same problem here. with msi 6870 1 gb cinebench score of 15 fps. GE=No gives me 30fps. I don't care about dvd and chess. vlc works, glbench and cinebench works, StarCraft 2 works. edit: Fixed it with proper smbios.plist (imac12,2). I got the 15 fps when coming out of sleep. Now it's always 30 fps. I read that cinebench is a combo of gpu and single cpu. So when you see high fps it is because of the faster CPU people have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty___ Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 ati6000controller - OK atiradeonX3000 - OK atisupport - OK applegraphicscontroller - OK applegraphicspowermanagment - OK I found out what causing there errors tho, I recon it's because of chimera 1.7. People went back to chameleon r1493 and the problem went away. So it is the bootloader not the 6870. what's your fps dif with r1493? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tredvesone Posted January 20, 2012 Author Share Posted January 20, 2012 Hi, I haven't tried r1493. Chimera 1.7 works ok but gives me the errors tho. I dont play games so it doesn't bother me that much. Anyhow, when I tried Chimera 1.7 vs the latest chameleon there where no difference in fps. Mine is always around 36. My old GTX260 gave me 32. So 36 is way to low Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xelanaiznac Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 hi guys. i have a vapor x 6870 1gb ram, and i got only 32fps on cinebench. both using smbios 3,1 or 5,1. i'm using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] 4.2.1 i've tried artur's next, but fps didn't increase Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kantok Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 Hi, I've tested artur's kext in my MacPro 3,1 & 6870. I've modified IOPlatformPluginDevice to MacPro3,1 in the info.plist. But graphicpowermanagement cannot be not loaded. Is it impossible to work graphicpower in my hack? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xelanaiznac Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 kantok, to load agpm you have to choose macpro4,1 or macro5,1, not mapro3,1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kantok Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Hi xelanaiznac, When I choose macpro4,1, I got KP. It's because of my board and cpu (EP45-UD3P & Q9550)? Now set to iMac11,1, it seems almost OK except istat menu temperature. But my 6870 seems to working properly. Thanks sooo much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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