Horrible Mouse lag when using nVidia video drivers....

[Apache Thunder]

Last night I gave up on iATKOS 4i, since the piece of {censored} keeps crashing and such and I just wasted too much time trying to get the dam thing to boot without a kernel panic.

 

So I dumped it and got "Leo4All v3". This one works like a charm. I installed it on my 80GB IDE drive using the GUID partition scheme (since it will have the whole drive to itself), and it didn't crash or anything on first attempt. And I now am using EFI and not x86 MBR. I tried a venellia kernal, but got a instant reboot when I tried it with iATKOS. I'm not sure if I'll get the same reboot issue when using Leo4All's venellia kernals, so I didn't want to waste time doing reinstalls, so I played it safe and used the modified kernel. My mobo does have a Intel chipset on it, so I'm not sure why vanilla kernels aren't working. Maybe because I don't have a dual core CPU? Its not that important right now. Seems to run fine without it.

 

Now that I know I have a stable release, I'm now in need of drivers for a couple of things.

 

First is my video card. Its a MSI brand Nvidia 8400GS PCI-E card with 256MB of ram. Whenever I try to use Nitat/TItan/NVinject, the drivers seem to work, but the mouse lags so badly that I can't use the system at all. The lag only seems to effect the mouse since everything else seems to work fine. I even tried the EFI string stuff, but not gotten any of that to work.

 

And the audio is choppy, sounds get cut off or don't play. For example the intro video at first bootup (which only displays if I install video drives) plays laggy as hell and the audio doesn't play without skipping.

 

So right now I'm running without any video drivers at all since that the only way I can get a usable mouse. A solution for this would be greatly appreciated.

 

I also need to know where to get drivers for my NetGear WG311v3 PCI card. I want to use this to get internet in Mac, but so far I haven't found drivers for this. I also have a Zydas brand USB wifi stick, but that doesn't seem to work either since Airport doesn't even show up in my Network configuration (despite having installed the Zydas drivers during the install process).

 

Oh and I just recently swapped out my motherboard for another I had, since the sound doesn't work with Mac on the old one. Plus the one I have now has a faster PCI-E bus and is generally...better. Plus, the BIOS has a boot menu to quickly boot a different drive, which the crappy BIOS on the other board lacked. Also, I did make sure that I turned on "Execute Disabled Bit" before installing, though I don't think this setting has any effect on my install since I have gotten installs in the past to work with the setting off. But I will leave it on to be safe.

 

Here is my configuration:

 

Motherboard: ECS 915PL-A2

RAM: DDR1 2x1GB

Audio: Intregrated AC'97

CPU: Single Core Socket 775 Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz(supports SSE2 and SSE3. Also has HT support)

 

Video Card: MSI Nvidia Geforce NX8400GS 256MB (device ID=0144)

 

Hard drives:

 

2x300GB SATA and 1 80GB IDE.

 

Both SATAs are Seagate Barracuda's and the IDE drive is a Maxtor drive.

 

XP is on the first SATA drive (which has 3 partitions on it, one of which is a extra HFS+ partition), and Vista is on the second SATA drive (which only has 1 partition). Mac OS X is on the lone IDE drive.

 

I tried to use Mac OS on the first SATA drive, but in the end I gave up on it since I wish to use EFI and a GUID partition scheme, and the 2 SATAs have LOTS of data on them, and I don't want to risk losing them to a attempted GUID conversion.

 

So I popped in the 80GB IDE drive and Mac OS seems to live on it happily. Please note that the problems listed above have occurred with both iATKOS 4i and my current install (Leo4All v3). So the install on the IDE drive has no effect on my situation. Nor was it the install source.

 

Please help, since I'm close to having a perfect install. All I'm missing is drivers for 2 devices and that's it!

[Apache Thunder]

So...Nobody wants the help?

[Apache Thunder]

UPDATE:

 

FINALLY GOT IT WORKING. No thanks to this forum! It turns out that Hyper Threading was lagging Mac OS. When I turned it off, I began to notice that animations played without lag and the sound is not choppy any more. So I reinstalled the Natit drivers and low and behold, my mouse isn't bogged down like a drunken turtle! Everything seem to run fine. Even the audio is running perfect.

 

Infact MacOS as a whole runs better. I checked my video drivers, and Quartz Extreme isn't running (it says its "unsupported"), so I would like to know if I really need that and how I would go about getting that turned on.

 

Also, will turning off Hyper Threading have a negative impact on my gaming performance in Windows? I have yet to notice anything, but then again, I might find out once I begin converting videos and such. I'm wondering whether or not Hyper Threading helps at all in any situation.

 

 

 

Now all I really need now is a WiFi driver for my Network card so that I can take this puppy online!

 

I would have saved my self A LOT of time had someone actually bothered to offer ANY advice on my problems, but no...My thread just sat here collecting dust. It seems quite a few threads just go by ignored and others get answered. Why is that? There's like 50+ members online at any one time, but not a single dam one of them has any help to offer?

[Krazubu]

I would have saved my self A LOT of time had someone actually bothered to offer ANY advice on my problems, but no...My thread just sat here collecting dust. It seems quite a few threads just go by ignored and others get answered. Why is that? There's like 50+ members online at any one time, but not a single dam one of them has any help to offer?

Some answers here and here

 

Also, an other reply to you here

 

You seem to be one those cluless people that want everything rapidly pre-chewed by others, this is one thing, but complain about it when you (logically) get no answer is even worse