xxnonamexx Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 I have installed MAC OSX Mountain Lion successfully on my windows 7 Quad PC. I tried to open imovie and it stated my card doesn't support quartz extreme. I have a Nvidia 8800 GT card and have been reading but not with a successful solution. Any help greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 It doesn't matter what video card you have if you're running OS X in a virtual machine. The video card is virtualized too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxnonamexx Posted September 8, 2012 Author Share Posted September 8, 2012 Then if its virtualized why is it still asking for Quartz extreme video card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 Because there is apparently no OS X driver for the virtual video card that Virtualbox uses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxnonamexx Posted September 8, 2012 Author Share Posted September 8, 2012 so imovie will never work in virtualbox? How else can I get itr to work besides buying a mac? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 You can install OS X on your PC like the rest of us, instead of trying to use a virtual machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxnonamexx Posted September 9, 2012 Author Share Posted September 9, 2012 I looked at the install guide in this forum. how can I make sure my mobo will work? Can I try it and roll back changes? how much of a partition is needed for lion? Can I use my external hd for install or does it have to be C drive? My pc is a quad with asus motherboard. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 What do you mean roll back the changes? OS X is an operating system that you install to your hard drive. Did you ever install Windows 7 and then try to "roll back" to your old Windows XP installation? OS X can be installed to any drive attached to your PC, as long as the controller it's connected to is supported by OS X. Hard drives are cheap. Avoid installing to a drive with other partitions, use an entire drive for OS X, it's easier this way in the beginning. Once you know what you're doing you can mix and match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eep357 Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 There was an iMovie software update released within the past day or two that addresses some problems with it launching it said were caused by 3rd party iTunes plug-ins. Don't know that it will help and since your running VM, I've only ever ran windows in VM from OSX, not the other way around, so am not familiar with how it behaves. None the less, might as well see if you can apply the update via the Mac Appstore, and if you can't, there's yet another reason to do a true install of OSX to your hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxnonamexx Posted September 9, 2012 Author Share Posted September 9, 2012 I noticed 2 guides to install mountain lion one says guide the easiest way and the other says chameleon and vanilla. What should I do? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxnonamexx Posted September 10, 2012 Author Share Posted September 10, 2012 What guide should I follow? Differences? Fast and easy way or vanilla chameleon way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Do the one where you learn the most. It'll be useful later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxnonamexx Posted September 10, 2012 Author Share Posted September 10, 2012 but what's the difference between the 2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 It's the end result that matters but like I said it's better if you learn something along the way. I'm not sure if I understand your question...are you asking me to read them for you and then tell you what the differences are? Is there a reason why you can't do that yourself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxnonamexx Posted September 10, 2012 Author Share Posted September 10, 2012 No need to be rude I can read them myself and have but I still don't understand what the major difference between the 2 installation ways are. Is one superior that others prefer? Thanks I have a ASUS MOBO http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5E_Deluxe/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 I'm not being rude. You need to ask better questions if you want help. If there's something that you don't understand please be specific about what it is because I can't guess what it is that you don't understand. I can't see inside your head. I have no idea which guides you are talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldenghost Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 so imovie will never work in virtualbox? How else can I get itr to work besides buying a mac? At this moment neither VMWare (Workstation or Fusion) nor Virtualbox support Quartz Extreme / CoreImage, so you can't use applications that require that, like iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Chess, and so on. There is no workaround either at this moment. What you can do is buy a computer / notebook that supports it and install it natively like you do with windows. There are even tablets with OS X but no idea of Quartz Extreme support. You can take a look in here: http://www.macbreaker.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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