Doug the Impaler Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 First of all, here's my specs: Dell Dimension 4700c 2.8GHz Prescott 1MB cache 1.5GB PC4200 DDR2 GeForce 6600GT 2x80GB SATA AOpen 16x DVD+-RW/DL When I installed OS X x86 via instructions found here and it worked flawlessly. I varied from the directions a little, since I'm dedicating an entire HD to the OS, so I didn't futz with partition magic, I just blew away the partition map on the drive with Disk Utility, and I can choose my boot disk every time I reboot the computer. A very nice solution that didn't much of anything, honestly. Anyway, I only got to play with it for 15-20 minutes, but it appears that with my 6600GT that at least Quartz Extreme is enabled because the GUI is incredibly responsive, more than I would expect with VESA mode...honestly it's more responsive than an upgraded PowerMac Digital Audio I have with a 1.6GHz CPU and a Radeon 8500. I'm utterly blow away, honestly. I do have the "stuck at 1024x768" issue and I know how to resolve that and pick another resolution, but here's where I'm confused: I thought QE required OpenGL, and therefore to function in the UI, my 6600GT would have to have hardware acceleration. Is that not true? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6753-confused-abotu-nvidia-support/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJägermeister Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 First of all, here's my specs: Dell Dimension 4700c 2.8GHz Prescott 1MB cache 1.5GB PC4200 DDR2 GeForce 6600GT 2x80GB SATA AOpen 16x DVD+-RW/DL When I installed OS X x86 via instructions found here and it worked flawlessly. I varied from the directions a little, since I'm dedicating an entire HD to the OS, so I didn't futz with partition magic, I just blew away the partition map on the drive with Disk Utility, and I can choose my boot disk every time I reboot the computer. A very nice solution that didn't much of anything, honestly. Anyway, I only got to play with it for 15-20 minutes, but it appears that with my 6600GT that at least Quartz Extreme is enabled because the GUI is incredibly responsive, more than I would expect with VESA mode...honestly it's more responsive than an upgraded PowerMac Digital Audio I have with a 1.6GHz CPU and a Radeon 8500. I'm utterly blow away, honestly. I do have the "stuck at 1024x768" issue and I know how to resolve that and pick another resolution, but here's where I'm confused: I thought QE required OpenGL, and therefore to function in the UI, my 6600GT would have to have hardware acceleration. Is that not true? Take a look at the system profiler, you probably don't have QE with a Nvidia card. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6753-confused-abotu-nvidia-support/#findComment-41709 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigxcpu Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 It does not have, for sure, but VESA mode on Mac OS seems to be very fast, indeed. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6753-confused-abotu-nvidia-support/#findComment-41720 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rohde Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Indeed, if you have QE with nVidia something's wacked. And nice specs by the way Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6753-confused-abotu-nvidia-support/#findComment-41724 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug the Impaler Posted January 12, 2006 Author Share Posted January 12, 2006 (edited) Holy {censored} I write run-on sentences. Anyway, I'll check when I get home...I didn't get long to play with it because I let the OS install overnight and created an account this morning. If this is just VESA, I'd love to see what QE responsiveness is like...to steal a line from teh MacNN forums, teh snappy, indeed. Guess I'll just have to pick up an X1600 or something equivolent and play WoW on this box in OS X when the universal binary is available...life will be good, because WoW performance on my PPC Mac is what keeps me in Windows Edited January 12, 2006 by Doug the Impaler Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6753-confused-abotu-nvidia-support/#findComment-41734 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug the Impaler Posted January 12, 2006 Author Share Posted January 12, 2006 Yeah, you're right. I took the card out and I'm using the onboard Intel graphics for now, just because I don't want the CPU to be pegged at 100% (which it won't be, but it's ironic that the onboard video is accelerated when my card isn't) running the GUI. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6753-confused-abotu-nvidia-support/#findComment-41838 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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