Dannydeman Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 When OSX ML comes out, I will go back to OSX86. Unfortunatly, I'm stuck with the GTX 465 from Nvidia. Tried it with Montain Lion DP1 and it was a pain to get it working. HW support never worked, and I gave it up and went back to Windows. I can get my hands on a Ati HD6950 pretty soon, and I was wondering if this really works out of the box? I want Multi-monitor support and good HW Acceleration. Or is there any other videocard you guys recommend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eep357 Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Well, I don't own either of those personally, but as far as I know the GTX 465 should not be all that problematic, either get drivers direct from nvidia, or use chameleon's graphics enabler.These days, aside from models just released, the list of desktop cards that don't work would be much shorter than the list of card's that do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannydeman Posted June 15, 2012 Author Share Posted June 15, 2012 Well, I might give it a second try when the GM comes out. Might even try it first with the DP4. With DP1, I did try the GraphicsEnabler and the official drivers. Didn't work unfortunatly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcork Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 With the new Macbook Pros using Kepler chipsets from Nvidia, the GTX680 should work. However, withouth one to test i can't confirm. I'm using an AMD Radeon 6850 and it works perfectly OOB with no tweaking required Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanky Deluxe Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 6950 might be troublesome - 69xx models have always been troublesome. I use a 6870 and it works fine in DP4. It required a bit of work due to the drivers still being a bit buggy but it worked without a hitch in Lion and should work without a hitch in retail Mountain Lion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korni22 Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 I am running Mountain Lion with an GTX 680 - working OOB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
star-affinity Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 I am running Mountain Lion with an GTX 680 - working OOB How did you do it? Does OOB mean ”out of the box”, i.e. no special Kernel Extensions needed? Will it work in 10.7.5 too, with the drivers there? I prefere to not use an un-released OS (even if I know Mountain Lion is pretty close). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fallen101 Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Im using a dated card but the GTX 200s Series work from Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taruga Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 I´m using a GTX 260 and a GTX 560 Ti, both work fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaunino Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 he GTX 260 work fine? Did you try cinebench for fps? I have gtx 285 and Q/E working fine, but fps is 17... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmcgpa Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Using a GTX 670 here OOB with Mountain Lion DP4. It screams in benchmarks, and in games like Diablo 3 / World of Warcraft. Light years faster than my old GTX 480. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valmar Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 GTX580 works ootb if u use a Mac Pro smbios.plist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaviDemon Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Well, from what I have; a 6950, you CAN get it to work. But it does not work fully, nor does it work OOB. So I suggest avoid this one until netkas and his team get this to run, or Apple/AMD figure this {censored} out.. Because in Lion it started to work (no cold boot bug, but OpenCL doesn't work) but in ML things have really screwed up so.. But from my experience, my 6950 non-ref model is working in ML GM (without OpenCL, i.e. you get green garbage in Photoshop and Unigine, etc) but iTunes is fixed with a patch. Just a heads up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yonyz Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Gainward GTS 250 works out of the box. No DSDT or kexts. I can play Steam games and all that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real Deal Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 GTX580 works ootb if u use a Mac Pro smbios.plist Hello, What about the power management of the GPU ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TH3L4UGH1NGM4N Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 If you want nVidia go for the gtx 680 If it's ATI/AMD then grab yourself the 6870. From experience, those are the two easiest modern day cards you could get working. What you actually choose from there will be from personal preference like do you want CUDA? I know personally I'm gonna nab me a 680 to go with my 6870 to get the best of both with openCL and CUDA once I get os x to play nicely with them both running in tandem. Bottom line, to get the 680 working it's an OOB card. The 6870 doesn't require a whole lot of work just a perl script for your connector IDs to work properly and setting the FB of your choice. Looking back at when it was hell getting some gpus working in OS X, I really wouldn't complain about a card being too difficult to work as things are much easier these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannydeman Posted July 15, 2012 Author Share Posted July 15, 2012 Some good news Installed the GM build (using myHack to create the install USB disk), and I can confirm that the GTX465 is fully working. No need for a special trick or driver, it works out of the box (Graphicsenabler=1). Dual monitor setup is working great and also out of the box. Animations are very smooth and I tried some YouTube HD which also worked good enough. However, the playback is a little worse then it is on Windows 7 though. I see some lag in the first few seconds, and the overall responsiveness when skipping and stuff like that, isn't perfect. Maybe it's because of Flash and it's normal in OSX, not really sure about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apav Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Mountain Lion 10.8 GM Zotac 8400 GS OOB with graphics enabler=yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sselshamy Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 I have GTX 285 & got 44.03 fps on ML GM overall performance is better that Lion 10.7.4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yonyz Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 I have GTX 285 & got 44.03 fps on ML GMoverall performance is better that Lion 10.7.4 44 fps where? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megavolkan Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 GTX 460 Hawk 1GB works fine with GraphicsEnabler=Yes on 10.7 and 10.8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwatGuard Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 One quick question : I have installed Mountain Lion on my system ( Core 2 duo 4300, 4 gb ram, Gigabyte 965g ds3, msi gts 250 1gb oc ). When i try to connect second monitor (lcd tv via dvi to hdmi adapter + hdmi cable) the mountain lion does not start anymore (white screen at startup). The video card worked out of the box after installation. Any advice to benefit of dual display ? Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iLeopod Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 HDMI is not working with GTS 250 /9800gt/8800gt use vga or dvi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Pie Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 GT240 also works out of the box - in my case, I used the inno3D 1GB GDDR5 variant. Just add GraphicsEnabler=Yes to your boot plist and you're good to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwatGuard Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 @iLeopod - thanks for the answer but my gts250 doesn't have HDMI. I am using one DVI to VGA adapter for the monitor and one DVI to HDMI for the LCD TV. Do you know a solution for my problem (mountain lion does not boot if lcd tv is connected to my video card ) , maybe a way to make dual display ? Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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