dannymichel Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Games, such as WoW and GW2 definitely run better on Windows. Is this because Windows has the proper drivers for my GTX 560, where there are only simulated ones on my Hackintosh? Do I need extra kexts or need to modify my DSDT or something? http://d.pr/f/9tJt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285948-games-on-hackintosh/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
liujianwei Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 I also have the same problem,COD7 run better on Windows,I found NVIDIA driver QUADRO & GEFORCE MAC OS X DRIVER RELEASE 304.00.05 and installed.Seems doesn't work. I use my GPU through org.chameleon.Boot.plist Graphicsenabler=Yes Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285948-games-on-hackintosh/#findComment-1884566 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iFIRE Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 AppleGraphicsPowerManagement (AGPM) for nVidia Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285948-games-on-hackintosh/#findComment-1884588 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannymichel Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 AppleGraphicsPowerManagement (AGPM) for nVidia Thanks. Link doesnt work though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285948-games-on-hackintosh/#findComment-1884789 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Yes, the link works fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285948-games-on-hackintosh/#findComment-1884823 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nyolc8 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Games, such as WoW and GW2 definitely run better on Windows. ... This is true on real macs too. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285948-games-on-hackintosh/#findComment-1884837 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannymichel Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 Anything I can do? It's as if OS X is heavy or something Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285948-games-on-hackintosh/#findComment-1884850 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Yes it's perfectly normal for games to run slower on OS X than on Windows, both on Hacks and real Macs. You should first try to establish if there really is a problem with your setup or not. Run some benchmarks, try OpenGL Extensions viewer, Unigine Heaven and other toys (search for threads by mitch_de here on IM to find more), then go look for results from other people who have the same video card as you, or something in the same ballpark. This way you can get an idea about what kind of performance you should expect. In 10.7.5 with the latest nvidia drivers, I got around 4000 on all tests in OpenGL Extensions viewer at 1280x1024 + default settings on a GTX 460. Your scores should be a little higher, depending on resolution. Here's my Unigine score on 10.7.5 w/ the GTX 460: My hackintosh is unbootable at the moment due to a video card upgrade. /Edit And I'm back... Here are some benchmark results - 10.8.2, latest Nvidia drivers, EVGA Geforce 660 GTX 2GB: 3 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285948-games-on-hackintosh/#findComment-1884858 Share on other sites More sharing options...
liujianwei Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Here is mine @1920x1080,I tried AGPM,but seems like don't effect...emmm.strange,Unigine doesn't work on my hackintosh 10.8.2,I will try it on 10.7. Unigine Heaven on my mackintosh 10.7.5 works. here is the result on Inno3D GTX 260 GOLD Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285948-games-on-hackintosh/#findComment-1885005 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 Unigine Heaven should work. Try installing the latest Mountain Lion Quadro 4000 drivers from nvidia, then boot with GraphicsEnabler=n on your 10.8.2 hack. I've been away for a while and haven't been keeping up so I was quite surprised when I got full hardware acceleration with no video card injection at all. Are the OpenGL Extensions Viewer scores from Mountain Lion? They look fine. Your OpenGL 1.1 score is lower because the clocks didn't have time to ramp up. To get a more accurate score for OpenGL 1.1 run the test, keep an eye on your score and then when it hits 4000, quickly press esc and restart the test. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285948-games-on-hackintosh/#findComment-1885913 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannymichel Posted February 4, 2013 Author Share Posted February 4, 2013 Are there no GTX 560 drivers downloadable for OS X? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285948-games-on-hackintosh/#findComment-1885921 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 The Quadro 4000 drivers are the GTX 560 drivers. You have to select Quadro 4000 for Mac on nvidia's driver download page to get them. There is no "GTX 560 for Mac", so if you select that video card you don't get the option to download OS X drivers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285948-games-on-hackintosh/#findComment-1885924 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannymichel Posted February 4, 2013 Author Share Posted February 4, 2013 I tried everything I could to find and download those Quadro 4000 drivers. I just cant find them. Is it this October 2012 driver? http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-304.00.05f02-driver.html Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285948-games-on-hackintosh/#findComment-1885925 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 As I said.. You have to select Quadro 4000 for Mac on nvidia's driver download page to get them. But yes, you found the right page. In case you're not using a MacPro model identifier also see this...so I don't have to repeat myself: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/248510-i-dont-understand/#entry1642353 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285948-games-on-hackintosh/#findComment-1885926 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannymichel Posted February 4, 2013 Author Share Posted February 4, 2013 Thanks. Unfortunately for me, I installed the driver and used GraphicsEnabler=n, and am now getting a blank screen Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285948-games-on-hackintosh/#findComment-1885929 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 Try plugging your monitor into the other DVI port. Although the screen should not be black even if OS X thinks you're plugged in to the secondary output. If that doesn't work then try booting with UseKernelCache=n -v (verbose mode added so you can see what's going on if it should halt again) Try booting with npci=0x2000, also try GraphicsEnabler=y, maybe some cards still need it, I don't know. Either way if it's a driver problem you should still be able to boot in safe mode with -x I have to go to work in 4 1/2 hours so I'll be turning in. I'll be back again tomorrow. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285948-games-on-hackintosh/#findComment-1885934 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannymichel Posted February 4, 2013 Author Share Posted February 4, 2013 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Boot Banner</key> <string>No</string> <key>EthernetBuiltIn</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>GenerateCStates</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>GeneratePStates</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>Kernel</key> <string>mach_kernel</string> <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string>npci=0x3000 [b]GraphicsEnabler=n[/b]</string> <key>Timeout</key> <string>2</string> <key>UseKernelCache</key> <string>Yes</string> </dict> </plist> or <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Boot Banner</key> <string>No</string> <key>EthernetBuiltIn</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>GenerateCStates</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>GeneratePStates</key> <string>Yes</string> [b]<key>GraphicsEnabler</key> <string>No</string>[/b] <key>Kernel</key> <string>mach_kernel</string> <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string>npci=0x3000</string> <key>Timeout</key> <string>2</string> <key>UseKernelCache</key> <string>Yes</string> </dict> </plist> ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285948-games-on-hackintosh/#findComment-1885935 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 No...just leave it, there's no need to edit that every time you boot, whatever you type at the Chameleon boot prompt overrides what's in your Boot.plist. Just start typing at the Chameleon GUI and the prompt will appear at the bottom of the screen. Once you find something that works you can add it permanently. Anyway; npci=0x2000 (not 3000 like you put, that's normally used on PCs with integrated video) goes in the kernel flags string, it's a kernel flag. Graphics Enabler is not a kernel flag, it's a Chameleon setting. Your second version up there is the correct one. If you were using npci=0x3000 when getting the black screen, try removing it, because I can't tell you how to override it from the boot prompt - I don't know what the default value for npci is. I was using that flag myself on 10.6.8 - 10.7.5, on Mountain Lion I don't need it. I really have to go to sleep, good luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285948-games-on-hackintosh/#findComment-1885938 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannymichel Posted February 4, 2013 Author Share Posted February 4, 2013 Ok, cool. So, I you're saying to leave my org.Chameleon.Boot.plist as this... <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Boot Banner</key> <string>No</string> <key>EthernetBuiltIn</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>GenerateCStates</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>GeneratePStates</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>GraphicsEnabler</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>Kernel</key> <string>mach_kernel</string> <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string>npci=0x2000</string> <key>Timeout</key> <string>2</string> <key>UseKernelCache</key> <string>Yes</string> </dict> </plist> but boot one time with -f -v UseKernelCache=No GraphicsEnabler=n and let it black screen but then boot again with no boot flags, and <key>GraphicsEnabler</key> <string>Yes</string> still being in org.Chameleon.Boot.plist Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285948-games-on-hackintosh/#findComment-1885943 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 No...I didn't mean boot one time with this and one time with that. Just giving you some boot flags you can try. Try removing npci=0x2000 from the kernel flags string, leave it empty like this: <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string></string> Also try safe mode (-x), this will prevent video drivers from loading. When does the screen go black exactly? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285948-games-on-hackintosh/#findComment-1886056 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannymichel Posted February 5, 2013 Author Share Posted February 5, 2013 So do <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Boot Banner</key> <string>No</string> <key>EthernetBuiltIn</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>GenerateCStates</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>GeneratePStates</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>GraphicsEnabler</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>Kernel</key> <string>mach_kernel</string> <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string></string> <key>Timeout</key> <string>2</string> <key>UseKernelCache</key> <string>Yes</string> </dict> </plist> then boot with -x GraphicsEnabler=n? The screen goes black after the verbos screen. If I don't boot verbose, the screen goes black after the first Apple screen Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285948-games-on-hackintosh/#findComment-1886189 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannymichel Posted February 5, 2013 Author Share Posted February 5, 2013 This is amazing. I would pay this guy to send me his kexts and or DSDT or whatever he did to get this working so well Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285948-games-on-hackintosh/#findComment-1886242 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 I don't know why it doesn't work for you, there's plenty of evidence out there that says the GTX 560 works fine in 10.8.2. If you have an OS X installer environment that you can boot into, you can run terminal and go to /Volumes/[name of your system drive]/System/Library/Extensions and delete all NV* and Geforce* kernel extensions. Then you should be able to boot with -f UseKernelCache=n. [edit] - forgot this very important bit: ....then go to /Library/Application Support/NVIDIA and run the NVIDIA Driver Restore.mpkg located there to reinstall the original 10.8.2 nvidia drivers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285948-games-on-hackintosh/#findComment-1886273 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannymichel Posted February 5, 2013 Author Share Posted February 5, 2013 Oh, it has always worked perfectly fine otb, but I want it to work well, how the youtube video guys' works well. i cant play games with it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285948-games-on-hackintosh/#findComment-1886276 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Then we're back to what was mentioned earlier in this thread, tweaking AppleGraphicsPowerManagement.kext. The link still works fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285948-games-on-hackintosh/#findComment-1886397 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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