nandemonai Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 Greetings all! Let me first say a BIG thank you to everyone involed in this project.. words can't express how happy I am at the moment. Down to business. Hardware: Core2Duo 6400 + P5B (Standard.) 2x1 Gig 533 mhz generic RAM (Yeah I'm cheap.) SATA 120g Drive running in ACHI mode. Nvidia 7600 GT USB DVD-ROM iPOD (Great way to save kexts and such over reinstalls) JAS 10.4.8 SSE3 Only reseed Installed successfully! I checked the two kernels, AppleZaila Patch, USB 2 patch (initially first install but that killed USB and I had to reinstall without it to get it working) and that was pretty much it I think. Will have to confirm a little later. Once installed and up and running I had to install the RTL1xxx_1.02.pkg in order to get the inbuilt ethernet working, followed this post in order to get the inbuilt audio working. From there I installed the titan driver and to my surprise upon reboot I had full resolution change access and quartz extreme is running very well. So from here on out I'm one happy camper. Initial XBench Results for anyone interested, they mean little to me as I'm kind of new to this. Perhaps someone can shed some light on these scores? From the way the system runs I'd say pretty good. --- Results 92.58 System Info Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.4.8 (8L2127) Physical RAM 2048 MB Model ACPI Drive Type ST3120811AS CPU Test 82.80 GCD Loop 188.07 9.91 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic 90.44 2.15 Gflop/sec vecLib FFT 66.31 2.19 Gflop/sec Floating Point Library 59.33 10.33 Mops/sec Thread Test 158.37 Computation 145.21 2.94 Mops/sec, 4 threads Lock Contention 174.14 7.49 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads Memory Test 108.08 System 100.63 Allocate 89.85 329.97 Kalloc/sec Fill 117.95 5735.13 MB/sec Copy 98.00 2024.14 MB/sec Stream 116.72 Copy 109.05 2252.43 MB/sec Scale 110.16 2275.96 MB/sec Add 125.59 2675.44 MB/sec Triad 124.07 2654.13 MB/sec Quartz Graphics Test 117.64 Line 96.23 6.41 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 120.21 35.89 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 114.60 9.34 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 107.04 2.70 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 174.70 10.93 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 114.12 Spinning Squares 114.12 144.77 frames/sec User Interface Test 269.54 Elements 269.54 1.24 Krefresh/sec Disk Test 37.05 Sequential 63.61 Uncached Write 52.13 32.01 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 57.34 32.45 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 68.92 20.17 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 85.06 42.75 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 26.13 Uncached Write 9.18 0.97 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 52.20 16.71 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 67.77 0.48 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 97.51 18.09 MB/sec [256K blocks] --- Okies so I've installed a few apps here and there and had no problems up till VLC.. seems when I run movies I get some of the same issues mentioned elsewhere on these boards but I think maybe slightly differant.. My videos play fast.. as in the framerate is too high.. not quite 2x speed but getting close. Audio skips in order to keep up clicking all the way.. iTunes on the other hand.. plays music fine. Quicktime, same thing with video but after updating just quicktime via software update? Bam, plays movies fine. Confused... I toyed with some settings in VLC to some slight improvement but nothing close to normal. I figured VLC was buggy and am sticking with quicktime for the moment with divx for mac installed. So I'm feeling pretty confident about the system and decide to give World of Warcraft a try.. install went smooth, patching went smooth and to my amazement I boot it up and it runs beautifully.. full spec! Though by the looks of things certain functions like anti-aliasing / shaders / high res textures don't quite seem to be taking. I could be wrong. I'm no expert on the matter just to me it doesn't like as 'pretty' as my Winblows install with the same settings. Maybe this is common on all Macs? I don't know. But here in lies the problem.. The game runs too freaking fast! How is that even possible? I was expecting the exact opposite and am befuddled. Sound is fine but animations and such are just too fast.. kind of like my vlc issues. It's almost like I've hit a fast-forward button. It's not quite as dramatic as my videos in vlc which are roughly 1.6-7x speed, it's more like 1.2-3 speed which makes actually playing the game rather difficult. So.. any suggestions? I'm letting the system boot as default. Should I specifically be picking a certain kernel? Would that help at all? I've read a couple posts about choppy audio/video and a suggestion to set cpu=1 in a certain file (I'd have to research it again) but surely being the same processor in macs themselves I shouldn't need to do that? Or am I missing something here.. For now I'm content to play around a bit more, maybe try one of the other kernels (I don't even know which one is default) and check back on any suggestions you guys/gals may have. Once again much appreciated and I can't believe it's running at all.. let alone as well as it is. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35090-i-never-expected-to-get-it-running-let-alone-too-fast/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 The kernel in the iso you installed is older and needs to have its FSB frequency set at boot: When using the Semthex kernel, you may need to set your FSB frequency. It is set to 200 by default. At boot, type: fsb=xxx (where xxx is a number like 133, 166 or 200) fsb is a frequency fsb (freq) = fsb (speed) / 4 Find your fsb (speed) in your BIOS or: (OSX) System Profiler -> Hardware -> Bus Speed (fsb speed) (Win) PC Wizard -> Mainboard -> Chipset -> fsb (speed) and fsb (freq) are both avail Remember to divide the speed by 4. If your FSB (speed) is 667, then your FSB (freq) = 166 because 667/4 = 166 At boot, type fsb=166 (using your value) or put the fsb in your boot.plist under Kernel Flags: <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string>cpus=1 fsb=166 </string> VLC - go find the nightly build for improved performance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35090-i-never-expected-to-get-it-running-let-alone-too-fast/#findComment-249174 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nandemonai Posted December 6, 2006 Author Share Posted December 6, 2006 Unbelieveable.. so simple. Thank you so much. All appears primo. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35090-i-never-expected-to-get-it-running-let-alone-too-fast/#findComment-249184 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 Unbelieveable.. so simple. Thank you so much. All appears primo. You can also get the latest kernel which does not require this setting. Follow the 10.4.8 link in my signature for info. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35090-i-never-expected-to-get-it-running-let-alone-too-fast/#findComment-249187 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nandemonai Posted December 6, 2006 Author Share Posted December 6, 2006 Done and done. No errors to report and fsb detect seems to get it right. Someone pinch me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35090-i-never-expected-to-get-it-running-let-alone-too-fast/#findComment-249218 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nandemonai Posted December 6, 2006 Author Share Posted December 6, 2006 Xbench results with the DaemonES kernel: Results 123.14 System Info Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.4.8 (8L2127) Physical RAM 2048 MB Model ACPI Drive Type ST3120811AS CPU Test 109.31 GCD Loop 251.75 13.27 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic 121.54 2.89 Gflop/sec vecLib FFT 84.98 2.80 Gflop/sec Floating Point Library 79.21 13.79 Mops/sec Thread Test 213.77 Computation 196.06 3.97 Mops/sec, 4 threads Lock Contention 235.00 10.11 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads Memory Test 147.74 System 135.54 Allocate 118.05 433.50 Kalloc/sec Fill 159.81 7770.26 MB/sec Copy 135.03 2789.02 MB/sec Stream 162.35 Copy 150.04 3099.00 MB/sec Scale 148.79 3074.02 MB/sec Add 178.58 3804.14 MB/sec Triad 176.93 3784.90 MB/sec Quartz Graphics Test 158.77 Line 128.54 8.56 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 165.73 49.48 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 158.31 12.90 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 142.06 3.58 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 231.34 14.47 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 152.89 Spinning Squares 152.89 193.95 frames/sec User Interface Test 402.52 Elements 402.52 1.85 Krefresh/sec Disk Test 47.79 Sequential 76.52 Uncached Write 47.81 29.35 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 102.11 57.77 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 78.49 22.97 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 113.28 56.94 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 34.74 Uncached Write 12.18 1.29 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 69.66 22.30 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 90.52 0.64 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 130.66 24.25 MB/sec [256K blocks] Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35090-i-never-expected-to-get-it-running-let-alone-too-fast/#findComment-249272 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedfreaK Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 what a difference between your 2 benchmarks with just another kernel, amazing! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35090-i-never-expected-to-get-it-running-let-alone-too-fast/#findComment-249348 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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