terramir Posted October 5, 2010 Share Posted October 5, 2010 Now the gforce GT 220 is a card based on the gt216 chipset, exactly like the 320 and 330m However the 320M shares the main memory while the 330M has it's own dedicated memory. now the question is would it be possible to use the capabilities of the quicktime H.264 acceleration by tricking macOS to see the card as a GT330M hence be able to use the Hardware acceleration and openGl with 1gb of ram it would be twice as much as the 330M but the cheapest cards have slower memory so that equals itself out a bit. I found this refurnished card that would be a steal and might just do the trick. according to this link the processors are the same. And this would be great for those among us that would like to off load the video processing from the processor. Then again would I be better off buying a cheap 1Gig ATI 4650 or something and just use the gpu to Assist my crunching in WCG and just let my quad core handle the video processing and decoding. Just wondering is this doable, making the mac think that my card is one that is eligible to use the H.264 acceleration? terramir Edit here's a screen shot of my video card now I could use some help in making that a GT330M maybe this will give you the info you need Edit2: I found the bios dump for the gt330M and the Figured out how to dump the GT220 now maybe someone can help terramir GT330M_GT220_bios.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krazubu Posted October 5, 2010 Share Posted October 5, 2010 If the GPU is really the same, it should be doable by injecting the stuff from GT330. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terramir Posted October 6, 2010 Author Share Posted October 6, 2010 If the GPU is really the same, it should be doable by injecting the stuff from GT330. yes graphics injection how do you do that where's the guide terramir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terramir Posted October 13, 2010 Author Share Posted October 13, 2010 yes graphics injection how do you do that where's the guide terramir Bump still need help and I just got the card delivered terramir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terramir Posted October 13, 2010 Author Share Posted October 13, 2010 Bump still need help and I just got the card delivered terramir still bump installed it it shows up as a gt220 right now while QE seems to be working in 10.6.2 I dunno about 10.6.4 yet, also I have no clue if CI and openGL is working properly because nothing is listed in the System profiler about it would be a shame to waste the gpu cycles LOL terramir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terramir Posted October 14, 2010 Author Share Posted October 14, 2010 okies someone is telling me on another forum to disable graphics enabler Its better to make a good and old efi string based on 330M info now my question is how do I do that this is what I've been asking every one and it seems like everyone is just not listening help !!!terramir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 Go to Netkas' forum and read the gfxutil release thread. btw if you use the latest version of VLC you can have GPU assisted decoding with your card as it is. For encoding..dunno. Handbrake is great but it doesn't use the GPU I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terramir Posted October 15, 2010 Author Share Posted October 15, 2010 Go to Netkas' forum and read the gfxutil release thread. btw if you use the latest version of VLC you can have GPU assisted decoding with your card as it is. For encoding..dunno. Handbrake is great but it doesn't use the GPU I think. tried reading that thread the catch is I dun have a efi string for the gt330M so how can I make it work with my card, when I dun have a macbook pro, anyone out there have the string and can show me how to alter the files , I read the gfxutil, seems like the people there assume a bunch of background knowledge I dun have Help terramir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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