curley Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 (edited) Call Of Duty Works system 8f1111A/G Gcube ati x600 pcie Edited December 11, 2005 by curley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopCat Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Did you do anything to get it to work? I have a ATI X700 PCIe based system and Call of Duty loads but doesnt do anything, just sits at a black screen although I can get out of it no problems. Can it still run under Vesa mode? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJägermeister Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Did you do anything to get it to work? I have a ATI X700 PCIe based system and Call of Duty loads but doesnt do anything, just sits at a black screen although I can get out of it no problems. Can it still run under Vesa mode? Games will not run in VESA mode, you need a fully supported VGA card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopCat Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Doh!! well thats what I figured but wanted to make sure. Hopefully there'll be a driver for the X700 chipset eventually. Hmmm...was just thinking, if the X600 PCIe works then there really is no reason the X700 PCIe shouldn't work outside of VESA mode as in accelerated mode? For example if Curly was able to get Call of Duty working, that means the X600 is not in VESA mode so am I missing something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New001 Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Doh!! well thats what I figured but wanted to make sure. Hopefully there'll be a driver for the X700 chipset eventually. Hmmm...was just thinking, if the X600 PCIe works then there really is no reason the X700 PCIe shouldn't work outside of VESA mode as in accelerated mode? For example if Curly was able to get Call of Duty working, that means the X600 is not in VESA mode so am I missing something? The iMac G5's use an X600, the PowerMac G5's can use an X800, the X300 (which works for some people) is kind of like an X600 slimmed down, so I'm pretty sure Apple might have not put the device ID's for the X700's in the ATiRadeon9700.kext Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopCat Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 The iMac G5's use an X600, the PowerMac G5's can use an X800, the X300 (which works for some people) is kind of like an X600 slimmed down, so I'm pretty sure Apple might have not put the device ID's for the X700's in the ATiRadeon9700.kext Ah I understand now. In theory could I add the device ID of my X700 to the list in the Info.plist file for the ATIRadeon9700.ktext? If I did that where would I put it? I'm assuming it goes in here in the string values: <key>IOPCIMatch</key> <string>0x51441002 0x51591002 0x4C591002 0x4C5A1002 0x4C571002 0x51571002 0x515A1002</string> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New001 Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Ah I understand now. In theory could I add the device ID of my X700 to the list in the Info.plist file for the ATIRadeon9700.ktext? If I did that where would I put it? I'm assuming it goes in here in the string values: IOPCIMatch 0x51441002 0x51591002 0x4C591002 0x4C5A1002 0x4C571002 0x51571002 0x515A1002 Yes, it should go there, but be warned, people have said X700's don't work, at the boot phase, it hangs on VRAM initialization. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopCat Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Yes, it should go there, but be warned, people have said X700's don't work, at the boot phase, it hangs on VRAM initialization. I ended up trying last night and discovered that it does in fact crash at bootup on VRAM init, however I managed to get it running by editing the ATIRadeon9700GA.plugin Info.plist file and adding the device ID to just the entry to this config:- <key>CFPlugInFactories</key> <dict> <key>1002514c-0000-0000-0000-000a27898d3e</key> <string>ATIRadeon9700GAFactory</string> </dict> OSX does boot okay and it does load the kext but I dont get any QE or CI support If I add the device ID to the next section in the ATIRadeon9700GA.plugin: <key>CFPlugInTypes</key> <dict> <key>ACCF0000-0000-0000-0000-000a2789904e</key> <array> <string>1002514c-0000-0000-0000-000a27898d3e</string> </array> </dict> it crashes at bootup at the VRAM init. So looks like I might've hit a dead end with trying to use the X700 afterall. I did try CoD again and this time it did load and displayed the Aspyr Logo but the screen ended up with vertical lines and it just locked up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New001 Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 I ended up trying last night and discovered that it does in fact crash at bootup on VRAM init, however I managed to get it running by editing the ATIRadeon9700GA.plugin Info.plist file and adding the device ID to just the entry to this config:- CFPlugInFactories 1002514c-0000-0000-0000-000a27898d3e ATIRadeon9700GAFactory OSX does boot okay and it does load the kext but I dont get any QE or CI support If I add the device ID to the next section in the ATIRadeon9700GA.plugin: CFPlugInTypes ACCF0000-0000-0000-0000-000a2789904e 1002514c-0000-0000-0000-000a27898d3e it crashes at bootup at the VRAM init. So looks like I might've hit a dead end with trying to use the X700 afterall. I did try CoD again and this time it did load and displayed the Aspyr Logo but the screen ended up with vertical lines and it just locked up there. Well, I got my Gigabyte Radeon X600Pro 256MB, I installed it, and it booted with full acceleration (QE + CI), no Kext modding needed! It's fast, has some mouse tearing and small graphics giltches, but Halo Demo won't run, neither will Jedi Academy Demo. :-( Funny thing, N-ball Mac would have all messed up and blockey graphics with the GMA 900, but the X600 ran it fantasticly. BTW, are you editing that file correctly??? From "Simania_NL" on win2osx.net: This is what I did:Open Terminal cd /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeon9700.kext/Contents sudo nano -w info.plist 'Go to the line with all the graphics ID's look like: 0x444A1002 0x4E441002 etc.' 'edit this line by adding your graphics ID, for a 9800 XT it is: 0x4E4A1002' CTRL+W and then 'y' overwrite the info.plist file cd / chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeon9700.kext kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions/ exit exit Then go to Application, Utilities, Disk Utility and click the applicable Harddisk and then 'Repair Disk Permissions' Reboot And ur done. Good luck all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopCat Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Well, I got my Gigabyte Radeon X600Pro 256MB, I installed it, and it booted with full acceleration (QE + CI), no Kext modding needed! It's fast, has some mouse tearing and small graphics giltches, but Halo Demo won't run, neither will Jedi Academy Demo. :-( Funny thing, N-ball Mac would have all messed up and blockey graphics with the GMA 900, but the X600 ran it fantasticly. BTW, are you editing that file correctly???From "Simania_NL" on win2osx.net: Yep, I am sure I was editing the right sections according to instructions found throughout the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New001 Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 (edited) Well, I only had to have my Device ID in the ATiRadeon9700.kext, then I had QE + CI, but I didnt have to mod the Kext because my ID was already there. Edited January 17, 2006 by New001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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