bsharpy Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 I have An 875P mobo with a P4 3.4 Prescott And A 7600GT 256MB AGP running OSX4.8. I finally have the OSX geforce driver "after over two months of hacking on AGPGart" on a AGP excellerated PCI bus. I am very happy I got this working but the quality in games is on par with a Geforce2GTS or an MX400? I am pretty shure the frame buffer is working because I can use a really high res with little or no speed change? It looks to me like Antialiasing and Anistropic filtering are not working at all. As compared to running in windows its like comparing a VHS to a blueray. The two games I like to play are Quake 3 and EnemyTeritory. Any Game and or Nvidia tweeks and or tips that you know of please post. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54398-nvidia-osx-games/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahbau Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 I think this might be more of an AGP issue than nVidia issue. I have a PCIe 7600GT 256MB, and while I don't play any games at the moment, my boyfriend gets over 100fps in WoW on the same exact card. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54398-nvidia-osx-games/#findComment-388854 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsharpy Posted June 18, 2007 Author Share Posted June 18, 2007 I think this might be more of an AGP issue than nVidia issue. I have a PCIe 7600GT 256MB, and while I don't play any games at the moment, my boyfriend gets over 100fps in WoW on the same exact card. I get pretty good speed 100 FPS+! It is just that the quality is not nearly the same. Can someone post some screens from OSX Quake3 or EnemyTerritory running on a pcie 7600? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54398-nvidia-osx-games/#findComment-388880 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahbau Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 I get pretty good speed 100 FPS+!It is just that the quality is not nearly the same. Can someone post some screens from OSX Quake3 or EnemyTerritory running on a pcie 7600? Sorry. I guess I misunderstood you. I don't have either of those games to test with (or anything else other than Diablo II. lol) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54398-nvidia-osx-games/#findComment-388905 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsharpy Posted June 19, 2007 Author Share Posted June 19, 2007 OSX Quake3 Windows Quake3 OSX RTCW Windows RTCW If you look at the edges you can see the jaggies in the OSX screen shots normally antiailiasing takes care of this as in the windows screens. Also note the lack of texture detail. Is there a way to set default opengl options like in windows? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54398-nvidia-osx-games/#findComment-388939 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahbau Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 I downloaded the Call of Duty 2 demo to test out my card. I know that OS X lets each program handle OpenGL settings rather than doing it for them. Do those games have settings in them for Anti-Aliasing? Call of Duty 2 had the option for 2x or 4x. This screenshot is with 4x Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54398-nvidia-osx-games/#findComment-389016 Share on other sites More sharing options...
riws Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 I have An 875P mobo with a P4 3.4 PrescottAnd A 7600GT 256MB AGP running OSX4.8. I finally have the OSX geforce driver "after over two months of hacking on AGPGart" on a AGP excellerated PCI bus. You got AGPGart working on Intel or what? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54398-nvidia-osx-games/#findComment-389055 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMX-Knuckles Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 Try something newer like Doom 3, Quake 4, Prey or CoD2. Quake 3 isn't a very good benchmark anymore. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54398-nvidia-osx-games/#findComment-389113 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsharpy Posted June 20, 2007 Author Share Posted June 20, 2007 You got AGPGart working on Intel or what? I have nearly the same speed in OSX as running in WindowsXP! I got something working! Take a look at http://x86dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=288.0 Try something newer like Doom 3, Quake 4, Prey or CoD2. Quake 3 isn't a very good benchmark anymore. This is what I got running Quake4 OSX screen 1 Windows Screen 1 OSX screen 2 Windows Screen 2 OSX screen 3 Windows Screen 3 I guess the settings are indeed set from within the game! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54398-nvidia-osx-games/#findComment-389782 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hovo Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 I have An 875P mobo with a P4 3.4 PrescottAnd A 7600GT 256MB AGP running OSX4.8. I finally have the OSX geforce driver "after over two months of hacking on AGPGart" on a AGP excellerated PCI bus. I am very happy I got this working but the quality in games is on par with a Geforce2GTS or an MX400? I am pretty shure the frame buffer is working because I can use a really high res with little or no speed change? It looks to me like Antialiasing and Anistropic filtering are not working at all. As compared to running in windows its like comparing a VHS to a blueray. The two games I like to play are Quake 3 and EnemyTeritory. Any Game and or Nvidia tweeks and or tips that you know of please post. the reason the game quality is different on pc and mac is because the pc games most likely natively use the Direc3D rendering system and the mac is using the OpenGL. The quality would be different and is evident if you play a game on a pc that supports both. Such as Counter Strike. Just try it out and see for yourself. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54398-nvidia-osx-games/#findComment-390406 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsharpy Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 Found a few little tricks for Quake3 add this to the q3config.cfg file seta r_nv_fsaa_samples "4" seta r_nv_quincunx "1" it seemed to work a little better and Of course crankin up the res works also Q3 at 2048X1536 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54398-nvidia-osx-games/#findComment-390868 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahbau Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 That still doesn't look like there's any antialiasing there. It's just as jagged as before, just with smaller jaggies. lol Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54398-nvidia-osx-games/#findComment-390898 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsharpy Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 That still doesn't look like there's any antialiasing there. It's just as jagged as before, just with smaller jaggies. lol yea I noticed it a little in the Quake4 screens to. Guess I will have to poke around the geforce.kext a little more. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54398-nvidia-osx-games/#findComment-391308 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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