The Shaun Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 I've noticed on Hackintosh boxes, Nvidia and ATi cards just look awful when it comes to the GUI. Take these two examples: My machine; Intel GMA950: aqua-mac's machine; Nvidia 7900 GTX: Look at the fonts themselves. They look aliased and miscolored around the edges. Is this a problem with the drivers or the cards themselves? I really want to upgrade my video card, but I don't want to lose the clarity that my GMA950 offers. This isn't just an image compression problem, because I've seen plenty of uncompressed TIFF images that have the same "artifacts". What causes this? Is there any way to fix it? Thanks, guys. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48223-nvidia-and-ati-cards-just-look-bad/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 What causes this? ehm... worse jpeg compression? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48223-nvidia-and-ati-cards-just-look-bad/#findComment-345350 Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 it's the drivers problem? not fully-compatible? i owned a x850xtPE with qe/ci accelerated, get the clear image as yr GMA950 no glitches at all Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48223-nvidia-and-ati-cards-just-look-bad/#findComment-345403 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shaun Posted April 12, 2007 Author Share Posted April 12, 2007 ehm... worse jpeg compression? This isn't just an image compression problem, because I've seen plenty of uncompressed TIFF images that have the same "artifacts". My buddy on the forums, Vipersfate has noticed the exact same thing with his NVidia card vs. his MacBook. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48223-nvidia-and-ati-cards-just-look-bad/#findComment-345565 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blog Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 It has to do with font smoothing. I also did a post concerning this issue a couple of weeks ago. I tried turning down font smoothing in Appearance to compensate and have better satisfactory results with my Nvidia 7800GT but still not perfect. It would be nice to see someone figure this out for all of us with these issues. I wish I could but I don't have experience working on drivers on a hardware level. cheers, Blog Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48223-nvidia-and-ati-cards-just-look-bad/#findComment-345795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackintom Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Shaun, first question, even if it is a silly one: is QE/CI/OGL fully working with your 7900 GTX ? Even before reading your post, just by watching the screenshots, I had the feeling that QE was not running... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48223-nvidia-and-ati-cards-just-look-bad/#findComment-345847 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blog Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 tbdl.... my 7800GT has QE/CI/OGL all enabled and working fine. I don't think that is the problem here. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48223-nvidia-and-ati-cards-just-look-bad/#findComment-345860 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shaun Posted April 13, 2007 Author Share Posted April 13, 2007 Yes, he has all those things enabled with his card. So does everyone else I asked about with this issue. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48223-nvidia-and-ati-cards-just-look-bad/#findComment-345892 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SA22C Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 It's tricky to get the displays set up properly. I've done some fiddling and am satisfied with the results, but it took five or six takes through the display calibrator to get a setting that I'm happy with. The trick for me was to ignore the initial recommendation of setting contrast to its highest setting and instead starting from a neutral setting in both contrast and brightness. The result is a display with fairly vibrant colors and no over-contrast. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48223-nvidia-and-ati-cards-just-look-bad/#findComment-346170 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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