XFX Geforce 8500 GT 512MB

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Sharing knowledge for all the people interested in this Graphic card, it works GREAT and it was quite cheap.

 

CS3 and FCS loves this card, motion works OK with it, obviously when its working with some heavy 3d {censored} it might lag a little but its much better compared ot my old Macbook's GMA950.

 

Ingredients:

Punk's Nvidia Installer

http://www.filefactory.com/file/6e670f/n/i...n_by_Punk92_zip

(http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=78980)

 

Plist Edit Pro (You can use the demo version)

http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/plisteditpro/

 

Installation

 

Use Punk's installer and select the NVInject V0.2.1/512mb package.

 

DO NOT REBOOT YET

Close the installer, and open Plist Edit Pro

Open the finder and navigate to Library/Extensions and right click on the file "NVInject.kext" and click on "Show Package Contents" open the "Contents" folder

Now Drag the Info.plist file to Plist Edit Pro

Click on the IOKitPersonalities Tab > NVInject > entriesToAdd and locate "NVCAP"

Double click the Value setting for NVCAP and insert the following string:

05000000 00000600 09000000 00000007 00000000

Save this file, it will need administrator rights, do the rest...

Open Disk Utility, Repair permissions, reboot.

 

Voila. DVI works too.

 

Now if anyone wants to share a how-to-get-this-{censored} using Efi strings that would be awesome.

 

Cheers!

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I tried this but I could not succeed. I have a XFX Geforce 8500 GT with 512 Mb VRAM. No luck for me. I followed the tutorial step by step. I am using a Gigabyte GA-945-GCM-S2L motherboard.