juunbug Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Hello all, I'm new to all of this (5 days running) but I think for a noob I am doing fairly well thanks to many posts found here, however I have a question about AGPGart. Heres my dilemma, I have an MSI Starforce GeForce FX 5200 AGP card in my hack rig right now, fully opened thanks to nylock10's handy tutorial here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...#092;.4\.8, (props, btw) and all is running swimmingly, however I ran xbench and compared my results with others posted and mine fell a little short, assuming my card being found as a PCI card as being the problem. But I've also read in other posts that the AGPGart driver more than likely would disable my qe/ci. Me No Likey. Is there any way to determine if installing this driver would help or hurt my specific rig, without trial and error (after error, after error....)? Any help and/or input would be greatly appreciated. TIA My Success Pic Hackintosh specs: Asus P5PE-VM Intel 865G Chipset Pentium 4 542+ (3.06GHz 1MB L2 Cache 533 FSB) SSE2 & SSE3 1GB DDR PC2700 (2x512) Seagate S-ATA 200GB MSI Starforce GeForce FX 5200 AGP 128 MB (up with Titan) JaS 10.4.7 DVD Install with Semthex 8.8.1 and Apple updated to 10.4.8 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37617-agpgart-dilemma/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyJAT Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Not entirely a success. If you have agpgart working properly you should see AGP next to bus (not PCI) in the graphics section of system profiler. A good way to see what the AGPGart kext is doing is to boot with the -v option and watch the screen for the AGPGart info. (To use a boot option repeatedly press F8 after the bios, similar to safe mode in windows) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37617-agpgart-dilemma/#findComment-267824 Share on other sites More sharing options...
e-rick Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Hi, I used an AGP-card in the following set-up: Asus P5VDC-X Intel D820 2 x 512MB DDR XFX Nvidia 6200 256mb AGP Hardisk etc.etc. With AGPGart running I did have better scores in Xbench and working CI and QE. However, my honest advice is to get a PCI-E card if you really want to experience OS-X. I recently bought a Nvidia 6600 256 PCI-E card and it performs much better. My AGP card suffered from artifacting I can’t safely say if it was better before or after adding AGPGart. The best tip I can give you is to clone your installation to another partition using HD-Clonetool ( http://art5dog.com/Clonetool/CT.html ) and just try things out on your cloned installation. You can download AGPGart from the following location: http://x86dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=46.0 You can also browse the forum on x86dev.org for more info. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37617-agpgart-dilemma/#findComment-267863 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonefr Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 AGPGart doesnt work on INTEL! read the topic damn ! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37617-agpgart-dilemma/#findComment-267866 Share on other sites More sharing options...
e-rick Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 AGPGart doesnt work on INTEL! read the topic damn ! If by 'INTEL' you mean all ' All Intel processors' I have to disagree with you.. I did have AGPGart 2.2 working and the last time I checked the Pentium D 820 processor was an Intel processor. And by 'working' I mean: AGPGart.kext loaded Nvidia kexts loaded Natit.kext loaded (Dual Screen v01) Graphics card recognized as AGP card in system profiler Core Image Quartz Extreme Quartz 2D Extreme 25% higher Quartz/OpenGL/Interface scores on Xbench So by working I mean...well... working. I did experience some artifacting though, but I also had that without AGPGart. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37617-agpgart-dilemma/#findComment-268130 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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