While Intel's 2nd Generation Sandy Bridge onboard graphics solutions aren't powerful enough to be used for gaming, they do outperform older discreet cards such as the 8400 GS. In fact, Apple is using these chips in the latest Mac mini, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. We've personally confirmed HD 3000 from the Core i5-2500K working with full acceleration in OS X Lion.
These powerful next generation "Fermi" cards have initial support without any additional drivers in Lion. The NVDAGF100Hal.kext that is used for the Quadro and GeForce 4xx drivers is included by default. CUDA has to be installed separately, but has also been updated for 10.7. Although we haven't tested personally, these cards have been confirmed working in OS X Lion.
We're excited about all of this new functionality! If you have enabled full resolution and QE/CI acceleration, please share your experiences at the above threads in the forum. Good luck and have fun!
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Hi! I have a GTX 580 and I wonder, how am I going to install the OS X Lion if I can't install Mac OS X Snow Leopard? The Snow Leopard doesn't support GT5XX.
My Config:
Asus P7P55D-E Pro
Intel Core i5 760
Corsair Dominator 8Gb (4x2Gb) DDR3
Cooler Master CM690 II Advanced
Corsair TX750W
nVidia EVGA GTX 580 1,5Gb
2x 1Tb Sata II
1x 2Tb Sata II
When I try to install Snow Leopard, It shows a error when it's loading the Snow Leopard boot disk
What should I do?
hey tony will all of this work to make a dual boot hackintosh/windows7?
Case- Antec One Hundred
RAM- 4GB 1333Ghz G-Skill (2GBx2)
PSU- Sunbeam PSU-COM680-BK-US 680W ATX12V
Motherboard- GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD4-B3 LGA1155/ Intel Z68
GPU- what would you recommend that is less than $120
HD- 1TB Samsung Baracuda 7200rpm
Optical Drive- Samsung SH-B083L
CPU- Intel Core i5 2400 Sandy Bridge
Awesome Tony! :D
works 100% gtx 460 lion not freeze
nVidia GTX 460 works flawlessly on Lion!!!
My 580 GTX works great once I added its hardware ID to the nVidia Kext.
Cuda, Open CL, Open GL, CI, QE. All working.
"Anonymous said...
hey tony will all of this work to make a dual boot hackintosh/windows7?"
No, your Antec One Hundred is NOT COMPATABLE with hackintosh !
jk
It looks fine. For GPU - you can start out by simply seeing what others are posting as "worked" for them and then compare that list to benchmark/prices to get one that best fits your budget.
If you want super cheap there is always the ever-working Geforce 8800 / 9800 series IMHO
any luck with GT 520 with Cuda, Open CL, Open GL, CI, QE. tx
Sandy Bridge i2400 on Gigabyte P67A-D3-B3 ..... Lion OK.
Asus GTX560 Ti with PCI ID 0x1200 to NVDAGF100Hal.kext and npci=0x2000 fix ..... Lion OK and rock stable.
GL, CL, QE and CUDA working like charm.
To get full Open GL working, make sure in your boot.apple.plist has the following:
Graphics Enabler
yes
Graphics Mode
Note that Graphics mode is BLANK! This is to fix a bug that causes 3d content to crash the system.
I imagine you'd still need a video card to perform the initial installation even if you're using integrated video, correct?
Also is 64 bit working with the 5xx series?
my non reference GTX 570 still isn't working fully.
Asus Direct CUII version has a unique device id 1086 rather than the normal 1081.
Adding 1086 to kext does not have the same effect. No Open GL, cant even see itunes coverflow or play games.
:'(
I can wait til the new multibeast and chimera so I can finally use my integrated graphics!
Is there any love for the Radeon 69XX cards in there?
My gtx 285 runs perfectly multi screen 1920x1080 Cuda and mercury playback in Premiere Pro
Intel dh67bl
i7 2600
16 gig value ram
10.7 via Xmove No aditional setng up except for easy beast
Hi Tony.!!
I have Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 Rev2 & Gigabyte GTS 450. I never had a stable installation with Snow Leopard because of the graphics card.
But NOW with Lion through (xMove+MultiBeast) I have a rock stable installation with full support for my GTS 450. No freezes, no kernel panic at all.
Thank you so much for your efforts to make this happen.
Warmest regards,
GTX470 work fine, also good frame rates on Starcraft II
evga 460 gtx funciona 100% no lion até agora sem congelamento
Is it possible to use integrated video for osx and leave a crossfire of 6950 in the PC for Windows 7 ?
That would solve all my problems as I don't need such video power in osx but only in windows. And I don't want to sell my 6950s neither ;)
Please someone answer me ! I'm begging ! :D
Does this mean Nvidia will be supported into the future? Or are these hidden/legacy components of Lion that will be phased out? Is it better to stick with ATI? Or does this signal an eventual move by apple to support both brands?
Tomhukk
How would they be able to answer your first 2 questions, they are not Apple employees.
9600GT is working in full support! CUDA installed, HD videos working perfectly!
The only sure fire way for me to load SL is with my MSI 8500GT card or my Sparkle 9500GT card they are the only two cards that work for me every time. Then once I get SL install and run Multibeast package I then can swap to my Sparkle GTS 450 in which I get KP under snow leopard but under Lion the Fanless Sparkle GTS 450 have no KP at all. I was using the XFX 5770 in SL WITHOUT a single problem until 10.6.8 update now I can't get it to work even in Lion so I put it in a Windows7 machine work great. Im using a Developer CUDA driver to prevent the out of Date msg that pop up each time I restart my Lion. My rig is a Intel DP55SB mobo 8 gigs of Gskills 1333 ram Intel 2.53 Xeon cpu Corsair HX-620 psu a Corsair water cooler a WD 160 gig notebook HDD two Seagate 80 gig HDD and a Seagate 320 HDD for iTunes and a 1TB Samsung HDD for Time Machine. I use the Digital 5.1 outputs and the Built-in bluetooth for the Magic Trackpad and transferring files and SIIG card reader. I may Post Pic's of my rig it really is something to see and Not hear totally silent. Only one issue Intel boards won't wake from sleep/standby
With the new graphics support, I can hardly wait to see the new recommended CustoMac Mini!
ASUS GTX 560 TI CU II 1024MB DDR 5 is working fully in lion. All you need to do is to edit the GF100 plist and add your device id to it. Even openCL is working (with a small hex patch to the geforce driver). Glad I waited for lion :)
You need 2 graphic cards to install lion (NO UPDATE!!)
1- Put an older one such as nvidia 9500 and install lion from your usb drive
2- Once everything is installed swipe the card with your GTX 5XX card lion will recognize it and boot.
3- Install drivers from nvidia (you should have done it before swiping the card for the 9500 per example)
Thats it folks
Going to try and hackintosh my Dell XPS 15 502X with 2nd gen i7 and Intel HD graphics with nVidia 525 and see what happens...
Asus GTX460 - driver was working fine, no OpenCL (tested using Apple OpenCL galaxy demo). OpenCL works great after patching the driver using hex editor.
Lion installed with 9600GT running cool with my old awesome DSDT.
Exchanged with GTX580 PNY , freezes at IOAPIC Version 0x20 vector 87:64 QQQQQQQQQ
My GTX 570 SLI is working perfectly, with QE / CI enabled.
I followed this tutorial :
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t260074.html
hey can i build hackitosh using the new intel 990x processor and if so please give me the probable list i.e the motherboard/cooling fans and the like which i can use with this wonderful tutorials...... please
will this video card be good for gaming GIGABYTE GV-N520OC-1GI GeForce GT 520 (Fermi) 1GB 64-bit DDR3
Any news on Lion supporting AMD Firepro 3D cards?
With the ati hd5770 running in osx I would have thought that the firepro v4800 / v5800 were realistic options?
HI.... Just to confirm... I have an intel HD3000. I installed Lion, and it didn't work OOB. Am I doing something wrong?? Are there kexts to make it work at full resolution?
My GeForce GTX480 works out-of-the-box with Lion, but not complete smooth... in all cases a 9800gtx is faster and smoother, for example switching Safari to full-screen... but this seems like a general Apple-problem... Apple is not able to use the complete power of modern grafix...
I've Quadro 600 & it does not working with lion with "GraphicsEnabler=Yes" & with "No" is shows only 1024x720 resolution So please help me guys.
Thanks
"Lion installed with 9600GT running cool with my old awesome DSDT.
Exchanged with GTX580 PNY , freezes at IOAPIC Version 0x20 vector 87:64"
I have the same problem after updating my graphics card to a 580...
Lion Smoothly run on Asus GeForce 520 gt , Lion detect Automatically my graphics card. Ethernate and Sounds perfectly run
My Configuration :
Motherboard: Intel DH67lb
Processor : Intel Core i7 920 3.4 Ghz
HDD : Segate 1TB
GTS560Ti works, but only at boot it takes ages for the mouse and keyboard to "respond".
I can see it booted up fine, nice dancing icons in the dock but no means of interfacing with the PC for about a few minutes and then it just works.
Same happens when it switches a background.
Palit GTS 450 1gb works on LION!!!!!!!!!! Asrock p45de-e8200@3600-2x2gb @900mhz(zeppelin)
I have Inno 3D G210 Graphic card its not working in Lion OS X 10.7.
one more error Show in Final Cut Pro "VRAM" not found. my card have 1 GB DDR3 VRAM. any body help me .....?
Love this Place! I have an Intel x3100 graphics card... No problem getting full acceleration in Snow... but can't in Lion. Any ideas? I have tried just about everything.
Nvidia GT540M 2GB dont work at all :S stuck on DSMOS has arrived
Hey i just got Snow Leopard installed today and everything works great, except for watching videos (they dont load) and playing games (such as minecraft, they dont load), facebook games work though XD Also, i am wondering how to boot into Mac OSX straight from turning on the computer and not having to put in the iBoot disc, i installed Chimera (at least i think i did it right) and still when i try to boot OSX without iBoot, it tells me that i need to insert bootable media and restart my computer. I am going to be buying Lion real soon and switching over from SL to Lion, will any of this change? Will i be able to watch videos and play games?
My Specs -
Core i7 2600K Sandy Bridge - 3.4Ghz
2Tb HDD
ATI Radeon HD 6750
8Gb of Ram
not sure what my Mother Board is :/
@Trevor- Just go into your bios and change the boot confiuration to 1st-Cd/Dvd
2nd- hdd
3rd- (if you have multiple hdds)hdd2, or else set it to any thing you like
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