Pikeman85 Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 Ok, first things first - trying to install Leohazard 10.6.1 My system specs (ancient) are: AMD 3800+ Athlon 64 ASRock DualVSTA-939 Motherboard nVidia GeForce 8600 GT Some random ram sticks - 2.5 gigs SATA 2TB HD Realtek RTL8185 PCI wireless card (Which I also can't get working, but that's not as critical). (Also a Belkin USB card as I think that's more likely to work for wireless) Flatron HDTV/Monitor 23" I install Leohazard which is the only version of OSX I've gotten to install and load. Either graphics mode doesn't work, and I get 800x600 resolution (and ONLY 800x600) and fast speed, OR, I get full resolution (1920x1080), but my installation is SOOOOOOOOOO slow. Mouse lags and jerks, everything seems slow and choppy. I've tried several graphics enablers, including EFI strings, OSX86 tools strings, Graphics (or whatever the syntax was) = yes in my apple.boot.plist, I've tried NVenabler, NVinject, natit, nvkrush, I've tried (Though I have no idea how well I did at it) DSDT patching, and also editting the plists as I was told on the newbie forums here (Again, tried, not sure I did well). Again, NO luck. I get either very low resolution, no real detection of my card, and fast, or normal resolution and VERY VERY VERY slow. Does anyone have any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikeman85 Posted November 5, 2010 Author Share Posted November 5, 2010 Hopefully a bump gets noticed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafafre Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 Hopefully a bump gets noticed! IF it's a VGA/DVI card, you may want to try this. This is a generic NVIDEA string from iatkos that was the only one that did work with my ZOTAC 8400GS. It may work for you also. <key>device-properties</key> <string>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</string> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intmain123 Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 got practically the same things as you. but I'm using a GTX260 and a newer AM2 board (K9N Neo-V). the funny thing is, the install works really nice for me, just when I boot into the real OS it gets really choppy & slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikeman85 Posted November 7, 2010 Author Share Posted November 7, 2010 Tried that string, and it boots in 1920x1080 mode, however it does the slow choppy thing with the mouse jumping everywhere SUPER quickly. I'm just so sick of this problem Pretty sure I could get everything working if I could just get my damn graphics working! Why is this so hard? I have a 8600 GT! It's super common! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dothacker Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 Have you guys looked at this before? http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...&hl=8600+GT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikeman85 Posted November 7, 2010 Author Share Posted November 7, 2010 Ooooo dothacker, you may be onto something! Need to try this out EDIT: It appears like he is just suggesting the use of NVEnabler - NVEnabler does the same thing as everything for me, gives me good graphics but very very choppy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dothacker Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 I was reading more about 8600GT's and seems like you guys aren't the only ones who had this problem... and they resorted out to buying a better graphics card... 9800GTX anyone? as for me, i'm sticking with my GFX card right now. it's not giving me problems right this minute since I dont play games on my hackintosh, but I do, however, use this for movies and anime. And so far, my 7200GS is not giving me any problems yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikeman85 Posted November 7, 2010 Author Share Posted November 7, 2010 Well what could it possibly be? I just tried injecting my NVCAP into a string inserted with OSX86 Tools - again, no bueno, same issue. I wish there was some sort of technical support center I could pay to fix this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikeman85 Posted November 7, 2010 Author Share Posted November 7, 2010 Ok, using a custom NVCAP from my video card bios did the same slowdown, trying it with DVI-I/DVI-I was still slow, DVI-I/VGA, slow, and VGA/DVI-I caused the screen to be black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dothacker Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 Ok, using a custom NVCAP from my video card bios did the same slowdown, trying it with DVI-I/DVI-I was still slow, DVI-I/VGA, slow, and VGA/DVI-I caused the screen to be black. When you used VGA/DVI, did you switch cables? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikeman85 Posted November 8, 2010 Author Share Posted November 8, 2010 No, though I figured that was the problem . Considering trying a vga cable, though I don't have one readily available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dothacker Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 well, there you go... try that though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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