ktzyeah Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Released today... and also there's a new Cuda version 5.0.59 Version: 313.01.01f03 Release Date: 2013.05.15 Operating System: Mac OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.3 Language: English (U.S.) File Size: 21.6 MB http://www.nvidia.co....03-driver.html who's gonna test it? apparently it includes a new driver manager preference pane... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Well, i won't mess with my main working machine, but if the said drivers are also compatible with the 9400m, i'll surely give them a go on my netbook (the HackBookAir of my sig). All the best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktzyeah Posted May 15, 2013 Author Share Posted May 15, 2013 installed (changing my smbios to macpro3,1) and it seems to work (just booted in osx). there's this new panel that let's you switch between nvidia new drivers and osx default driver i tried to switch to the nvidia web driver but after the reboot i found the osx one ticked again. maybe my gts450 is not compatible... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcobco Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 it is possible to use this with 10.7.5? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Hurt Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 I'm getting a "disk image couldn't be opened" error. Reason: not recognized. EDIT: WOW, just changed extension from dmg to mpkg and it worked. How did that happen? EDIT2: You MUST have the FileNVRAM module installed for this to work as it adds a boot arg for the kernel to load the alternative drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riley Freeman Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 It's not working with FileNVRAM here. The boot-arg is written into the nvram plist file but when I boot and run nvram -xp in the terminal the boot-arg section is empty. Running nvda_drv=1 from the chameleon boot prompt works. I might need to update my Chameleon. Upgraded Chameleon and it was still a bit flaky. I think it might have been using the nvidia drivers but was still reporting that it was using the OS X ones (checking the Extensions in System Profiler is a better way to see which driver is loaded). I've just ditched FileNVRAM and added the boot-arg into my chameleon boot plist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCsHands Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Installed via Pacifist on 10.8.4. I too had to change the extension to mpkg. NVDAStartup is showing that it is the new version, but the Prefs pane fails to load. I don't have time to look at it now. Maybe tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampage Dev Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 I have it working with the latest NVRAM. However can not toggle on/off the drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktzyeah Posted May 15, 2013 Author Share Posted May 15, 2013 i've downloaded the mpkg directly form the nvidia website (under the additional information section) since the dmg was not working. i'm using filenvram (with chameleon 2225), anyway i tried removing my old nvidia kexts and boot with the new nvidia drivers, right after the login it appeared a message box from the new nvidia driver preference manager telling me that my gts450 is not supported by this driver... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 The new drivers work fine here (plain vanilla EVGA GTX 660 2GB). I haven't tried switching back to the stock drivers via the control panel so I can't say if NVRAM writing works. But I see "nvda_drv=1" in nvram.xxx.plist. OpenGL performance is the same as it was with the former nvidia driver. Here's some benchmarks. If you want to compare results make sure you use the presets like I did, otherwise there is obviously no meaningful comparison! (that's right, some people don't understand this, see mitch's unigine heaven/valley topics) Here's a screenshot from OpenGL Extensions Viewer 4.0.8, FPS are considerably higher in full screen than in windowed mode. Also, in windowed mode it takes a lot longer to ramp up the clocks for some reason, resulting in OpenGL 1.1 hovering at around 530 FPS. Performance is similar to my old GTX 460. In other news, there's a new version of CUDA-Z: http://sourceforge.n...rojects/cuda-z/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Hurt Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 You can check whether its working by booting in verbose and looking for "NVDAStartup: web". If it says official instead of web, then new drivers are not loading. Also, make sure you have an appropriate smbios definition selected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Or, if you have CUDA drivers installed, you can simply open the CUDA preference pane and look at the driver version number. Also, make sure you have an appropriate smbios definition selected. I've been posting the following for four years, every single time there's a new nvidia driver out. smbios model definition has no impact on your ability to use this driver, all you need is a supported nvidia card and 10.8.x The model identifier check is inside the installation package and can, as usual, be circumvented in 2 seconds by modifying the script "distribution" with a text editor: Use Pacifist to open the mpkg and perform your digital surgery, et voila, you can run the installer without changing your model identifier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riley Freeman Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Or open System Profiler -> Extensions and look for GeForceWeb. All the new kexts (except for NVDAStartup) have Web appended to the name so they can coexist with the Apple drivers. If it says GeForce you're using the Apple ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampage Dev Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 Meklort and I came up with a solution. And when I say Meklort and I... Meklort did most of the work. I just did the testing: http://rampagedev.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/new-nvidia-retail-driver/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktzyeah Posted May 16, 2013 Author Share Posted May 16, 2013 Perfect solution, it worked for my gts450. i hope this driver wiill resolve the channel exception/timeout problem... edit: opencl broken edit 2: fixed with this script http://pastebin.com/N4n7Ub0Q Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giofrida Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 Well, I just tried it on my N580GTX Lightning and it sucks.. only 1081 on LuxMark (with original OS X Drivers I got 1421). Obviously I patched OpenCL before benchmarking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampage Dev Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 Well, I just tried it on my N580GTX Lightning and it sucks.. only 1081 on LuxMark (with original OS X Drivers I got 1421). Obviously I patched OpenCL before benchmarking. The 1421 had to be a glitch. I just do not see how you got that high... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giofrida Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 The 1421 had to be a glitch. I just do not see how you got that high... AGPM (9500GT/9600GT/GTX 260 = the original ones). Cuda 5.0.59. OS X 10.8.3. I did the tests more than just one time and I always get around 1400. Here's a proof: (with OS X's original kexts) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktzyeah Posted May 16, 2013 Author Share Posted May 16, 2013 my result is 309 with my poor gts450 ahhaah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AREOS Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 Can someone test any video playback? because I'm getting channel exceptions, but this time is only playing video from files or in Safari. In log is a new VADriver error before the well know NVDA Channel Exception All this using the new Nvidia drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktzyeah Posted May 16, 2013 Author Share Posted May 16, 2013 i tried various 1080p videos with vlc, xbmc and from vimeo: no signs of channel exceptions here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshhh Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 Mobile Keplers in PC laptops still doesn't work with this release( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AREOS Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 i tried various 1080p videos with vlc, xbmc and from vimeo: no signs of channel exceptions here! Had you tried youtube?, because as soon I try to play a video it freezee, I tried in a fresh installed 10.8.3 in my Asus G74SX with GTX560M. This is what I get from log May 16 13:35:05 MacBook-Pro-de-Agustin kernel[0]: NVDA(Video): Channel exception! exception type = 0x1f = Fifo: MMU Error May 16 13:35:25 --- last message repeated 1 time --- May 16 13:35:25 MacBook-Pro-de-Agustin kernel[0]: NVDA(Video): Channel timeout! May 16 13:35:54 --- last message repeated 1 time --- May 16 13:35:54 MacBook-Pro-de-Agustin.local PluginProcess[481]: VADriver: Channel timeout (client), ch = 3 May 16 13:36:05 MacBook-Pro-de-Agustin kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel timeout! May 16 13:36:06 MacBook-Pro-de-Agustin kernel[0]: NVDA(Video): Channel exception! exception type = 0x1f = Fifo: MMU Error May 16 13:36:26 MacBook-Pro-de-Agustin kernel[0]: NVDA(Video): Channel timeout! May 16 13:36:46 MacBook-Pro-de-Agustin kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel timeout! May 16 13:37:06 MacBook-Pro-de-Agustin kernel[0]: NVDA(Video): Channel timeout! May 16 13:37:26 MacBook-Pro-de-Agustin.local PluginProcess[481]: VADriver: Channel timeout (kernel), ch = 3 May 16 13:37:26 MacBook-Pro-de-Agustin kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel timeout! Good Luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juanerson Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 Working much better than Apple drivers for me. Perfect switching between NVIDIA Web and OS X Default. FYI I have installed Chameleon 2.2svn (svn-r2189) [2013-03-29 10:38:51] + his module version of FileNVRAM.dylib (56.136 bytes) [2013-03-29 05:09] No kernel flag "nvda_drv=1" in /Extra/o.c.B.p (so, just leave the job to the module). Note: I used "Flat Package Editor.app" (inside "PackageMaker.app") for modify the ".pkg installer" with iMac9,1 entry in "Distribution" file. This is what I did. For example: 1) Extract the .pkg installer with "Unarchiver.app" (free from App Store), or use Pacifist. 2) Edit "Distribution" as Gringo said with your SMBios profile. I use TextMate for that. 3) Open the .pkg installer with FPE, delete the vanilla "Distribution" and drag the hacked new one to the FPE window. 4) Save, quit... and run the modified installer. About FPE: http://forum.hardmac...showtopic=10703 You can find "Auxiliary Tools for Xcode..." in Developers Downloads (page 2): https://developer.ap...ds/index.action Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 Oh groovy, I didn't know about FPE, thanks. Definitely beats using Pacifist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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