Is there any way to remove the mac system check from these web drivers?

[cdoublejj]

https://www.evga.com/support/download/

 

here you can click gt240 and osx... is there a way to remove the mac system check? I'm needing web drivers for the GT240 for osx 10.6.8 since it doesn otwork OOB.

[Gringo Vermelho]

Yes he might have to edit them, but that's not what he's asking about.

The problem here is that back then, the web driver installer used to refuse to start if you were using anything but a MacProX,Y model identifier.

 

cdoublejj:

 

It's really easy to remove the model identifier check, don't waste your time trawling the internet looking for a modified installer.

 

You can also get the 10.6.8 web driver from nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/34384/en-us

 

Use Flat Package Editor to extract distribution.dist from the installer.pkg. Open it with textedit and edit the obvious...it will be obvious what to do once you're looking at it. After editing, make sure that you save it with the .dist extension, not .dist with a hidden .txt extension!

 

Drag the modified distribution.dist back in, overwriting the original one, save the .pkg and run it.

 

However, there is no guarantee that the drivers will work with your video card. Older nvidia drivers (web drivers too) would only load for a specific range of device IDs and yours might not be on the list. Also, some cards with the same model name may have different device IDs - for example the 9800 GTX+ exists with dev id 0x0612 and 0x0613 - but only 0x0612 used to work with unmodified drivers.

So it's very possible that you still have to do what Hervé says. You can still find old guides on where, and how to add your device ID, if needed. Google 'guide for all nvidia boards' for example.

 

A tip; avoid editing .plists with textedit, you can easily screw up the formatting, which will break functionality. Back then xcode came with a nice little plist editor, maybe you can still find it. Or you can use an xml editor, any free editor will do.