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Nvidia Quadro FX 580 recognized in Lion, but sluggish performance?


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I'm running OSX Lion on an EX58-UD5. With SL I added my Quadro FX 580 with EFI strings and it worked beautifully, QE was detected and graphics performance was the best I've ever had.

 

Now with the Lion install, GraphicsEnabler=Yes detects my card, but performance is sluggish.

 

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Launchpad is the worst with what looks like 5fps when sliding between screens and opening folders/groups.

 

Playing 1080p movie trailers is choppy when other items are on screen, but when switching to full screen it plays smooth as silk.

 

Anyone else experiencing this? Any ideas?

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Seemed to solved my own issue. I disabled AppleGraphicsPowerManagement.kext. This thing is a dream now! Super weird though... before disabling the kext I could actually hear my hard drive reading/writing when moving things around the screen... it was almost as if it was caching graphics/display to the hard drive?

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