LBC Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 In a couple weeks I am going to buy this video card for the obvious reason, PC gaming aka Crysis and others and was wondering if there was a way to do it? Or do I have to wait for a driver to be made available to work? If anything, could I juse the GTX 280 working with optimal settings ie. just be able to see a image on the screen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
czpcgk Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 way to do it? Well, OS X doesn't like my GTX 260, so I'd say there is no way to do it until Snow Leopard comes out. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aqua-mac Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 If you remove the Geforce.kext and nvinject.kext or natit.kext from your extensions folder you will get vesa display. If you input your resolution into your com.apple.boot.plist you will at least get the thing to look reasonable. You will have no acceleration so don't expect to play games or see video streaming media on certain web pages. Your computer may or may not shutdown properly, you may have to hold in the power button - but at least you will see a picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delfistyaosani Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 what an old topic however, I have PNY GTX260 and leopard 10.5.5 installed, I couldn't play games, but GUI works great, VLC player shows 720p movies smoothly and even OpenGL works a bit, getting 110FPS in iTunes classic visualisation, none of other OpenGL-based content can be seen, only black screen. As I heared GT200 support will be included in snow leopard? Won't the driver simply appear at nVidia's website? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thestevo Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 Why would nVidia provide the drivers on their website for hardware only distributed by Apple? All video drivers come from Apple, exclusively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rama Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 I have a gtx260 and i cant get any other resolutions to work.. just the standard 10x7... really starting to get me down.. ive tried boot.plist, and also typing in 'graphics mode etc..' from the boot prompt... and i've also tried a program called SwitchResX... nothing seems to work.. HELP! driving me nuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strangedaze Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 Hey guys there's a new snow leopard beta out with primitive GT200 series drivers. Not sure how much you guys are will to experiment but I'd look at one of the how to guides on installing snow leopard beta on a hack and see what happens. Nothing to loose if you have a spare hd! Anyone experiment with these drivers yet btw? @rama: Don't get down, your very close to getting a fix soon in my prediction. As for the resolution problem ask a few guys around here that have figured it out how they did it. ResX isn't going to do the slightest if you don't have any support for the card (even if it's botched support) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lateralusman Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Snow Leopard GT200 series drivers? Looks to be my next upgrade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delfistyaosani Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Hey guiz, at least I downloaded an installation of SL (10.6_snowleopard_10a222_userdvd) and now I'm gonna install it on an old 20GB IDE Drive, but since this is a DMG file I'll have to install iDeneb first right? hope my GTX260 will not be hurt... 'll write results after the experiment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
czpcgk Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 what an old topic however, I have PNY GTX260 and leopard 10.5.5 installed, I couldn't play games, but GUI works great, VLC player shows 720p movies smoothly and even OpenGL works a bit, getting 110FPS in iTunes classic visualisation, none of other OpenGL-based content can be seen, only black screen. How did you get VLC to work? Every time I try to open a 1080p .mkv, VLC just crashes. I haven't tried any other file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rene mauricio Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 'll write results after the experiment How did it end up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mekintosz Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Exactly 'cause I'm also intrested... And what about trying to port those drivers for Leo, anyone with good knowledge can try ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
czpcgk Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biletskyy Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 does it have any results of your experiment? i wonder when will snow leo issued? it will have gtx2XX deries support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
czpcgk Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Delfistyaosani, please reply. I want to see your progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick14 Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 GT200 Series will work in leopard becouse it's REALLY a 9800gtx Nvidia just changed it's name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
czpcgk Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 GT200 Series will work in leopard becouse it's REALLY a 9800gtx Nvidia just changed it's name That is incorrect. The GT200 series is WAY different than a 9800 GTX. If the GT200 series isn't supported then how is the 9800 GTX? Also, the GT200 has a dedicated PHYSX processor and has 1.4 BILLION transistors compared to 754 million in the 9800 GTX, so how dare you say its really a 9800GTX. EDIT: And by the way, I would know. I have a GTX 260. EDIT2: @Delfistyaosani: if you are not going to reply, then don't tell us you're going to try Snow Leopard. Otherwise it'll be another case of BigDaddyRob2G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biletskyy Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 any news? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pxavierperez Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 Netkas got his 4850 Radeon working on 10.5.6 with beta 10.5.7 kext, so I am assuming soon we'll have Nvidia 200 series working too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rene mauricio Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 Would be nice if he could chime in and let us know if he found anything in the latest beta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netkas Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 no support for gtx 260/280/285/295 in 10.5.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pxavierperez Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 no support for gtx 260/280/285/295 in 10.5.7 That's just unfair. :angry2: Hopefully by the time Apple release 10.5.7 to the public it will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rene mauricio Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 It would appear that it will not once it goes public. GT 120 and the 4870 may very well be the only updates we see until Snow Leopard http://www.apple.com/macpro/features/graphics.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuyanxu Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 im also waiting on GT200's support. in the mean time, bought a 6200 from Ebay and using that with QE/CI hardware accelerated graphics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aristo Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 Will Apple not support the GT200's even in the Snow Leopard? This is certainly a bad news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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