MilesMan Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Hello there! I have finally gotten my 10.9 Installation nearly perfect. Everything seems to work well however i do have a few concerns. My Specs: Dell Inspiron 530 Mobo: FoxConn G33M02 Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GT 640 1) My Graphics performance in OSX is not nearly as good as it is in windows. I like to play a few games (namely mine craft and League Of legends) and the FPS in my OSX install is lower by about 10-30 frames. 2) Sleep. I know that sleep and power management has been a really common issue with non native OSX machines. I have attempted to edit my own DSDT to enable sleep but no dice. The System will sleep after about 30 seconds from telling it to sleep and not instantly. The HDD spins down and all the fans stop, the power LED begins flashing like normal and it appears to be sleeping. However upon waking it up the screen remains black and the keyboard and mouse fail to respond. I have left it on for well over a few hours to see if it would eventually wake but it never does. I have attempted using various Darkwake flags (yes,no,0-10) with no results. I have attempted changing hibernate modes, I have attempted patching AppleRTC and replacing AppleRTC with a Prepatched one all with the same results. I have attempted to use HDMI DVI, and VGA all with the same results 3) I wonder if my DSDT has been properly implemented or if i am missing a few patches. What modifications i have done to my system so far: I have pulled and attempted to edit my own DSDT. I have applied the following patches: Audio, EHCI, IRQs, HPET, ICH 9 USB, IOATAFamily, LPC ICH9, MacDevices, RTC, DTGP, SMBUS, Wak, Have i missed any crucial patches to get sleep working properly or improving my graphics performance? Apple Smbios MacPro4,1 Latest Chameleon Bootloader BootFlags: GraphicsEnabler=No npci=0x2000 PCIRootUID=1 NvRam module I have achieved native power management and removed all NullCPU sleep enabler etc. Installed latest FakeSMC and hwsensors Rolled back AppleACPIPlatform to the one from 10.8.1 Patched AppleRTC to prevent CMOS reset on sleep I have edited my AppleGraphicsPowerManagement.kext with my device ID and changed the thresholds <key>Threshold_High</key> <array> <integer>0</integer> <integer>55</integer> <integer>85</integer> <integer>100</integer> </array> <key>Threshold_Low</key> <array> <integer>50</integer> <integer>85</integer> <integer>99</integer> <integer>100</integer> Have I input the correct thresholds for optimal graphics performance? I have spent many months and hours doing my own research on how OSX works and how to get it to work optimally on my own machine and i think i am ready to ditch windows and make the switch for good. Are there any more technical modifications I can make to my system to enable sleep and improve my performance to that of its windows counterpart? Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryosaeba0001 Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 me2, i have a drastic lower fps in games like in wow i have 95 fps with high settings and in osx same config I'm lucky if i achieve 30 fps...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcai777 Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 530 guy too Except for I can't install... Even with AHCI enabled...(RAID in BIOS w/o configuring any drives for RAID) So exactly how did you guys install? My 530 is Core 2 Quad Q6600, 4GB RAM, 160+500GB HDD, Sapphire HD 6570 1GB DDR3... Thanks in advance, Daniel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin_3930K Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 I have a GTX 780, with significantly lower performance in mavericks compared to windows. Think it's the drivers though.. Waiting on nvidia, and apple is the only option i think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryosaeba0001 Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 i have a gtx 670, can't find driver for maverick..... dcai777 i installed ML with iatkos then downloaded maverick from App Store and then used [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] easy as pie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesMan Posted February 4, 2014 Author Share Posted February 4, 2014 The more research I do the more i start to believe that its the graphics drivers that come with OSX. I believe that nVidia doesn't write the drivers, but apple however does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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