MACVIDCARDS.COM
  • Home
  • Store
  • FAQ/Installation
  • Drivers
  • Blog

more mojave clarification

10/3/2018

4 Comments

 
1. IF YOU HAVE AN NVIDIA CARD THAT REQUIRES WEB DRIVER DON'T INSTALL MOJAVE YET !!
My last blog post already has 30 comments, many are disgruntled folks watching slow redraws on a single screen. Apple didn't like the nMP 6,1 being embarrassed by it's older brother and stopped letting Nvidia include drivers for their vastly superior cards in the OS builds from Cupertino.
Last cards included were the GTX 780 and Titan Kepler.  Apple has buried their heads in the sand, the OS is stuck in 2012 for Nvidia drivers. The nMP 6,1 is stuck with 2012 tech so I guess they decided that they needed to hobble the 2008-12 MPs similarly. (anyone else think of Cathy Bates when they hear "hobble"?)
I sent Tim Cook an email looking for a reasonable solution, I'm sure he'll get back to me soon. (not)
Anyhow, Nvidia had a little issue with final 10.13.6 driver #108. I'm sure someone got a wonderful dress down in the boss-woman's office. And they are probably taking the testing a little further than Tim in the guard shack's Hackintosh. Heck, they may even test it on 4 or 5 machines this time. (wink)

Point being:
​
1. IF YOU HAVE AN NVIDIA CARD THAT REQUIRES WEB DRIVER DON'T INSTALL MOJAVE YET !! (unless you can live running just on our EFI driver, which is not ideal nor accelerated by hardware)

​2. If you don't understand point #1, read it again or ask for clarification. We are NOT Nvidia. Just a couple guys in 800 sq ft. in Hollywood, CA. And three more guys sprinkled throughout Eastern & Western Europe. That's it. We have no control over Nvidia or their driver release schedule. Sending us nasty emails and demanding refunds based on poor Mojave performance isn't helping anything. Really, nothing. If you are seeing a screen in Mojave on a 970 or 1080 it is solely, 100% because of our EFI. Everyone with unflashed cards is staring at a black screen or wishing they'd kept their old GT120 or 5770 while waiting for their Time Machine backup to finish resurrecting High Sierra.

3. If you have a GTX780 or 680 or K5000, count your blessings. You are up and running with Apple's 2012 drivers. Even a crusty old GTX480 is better off than a 1080Ti right now. Penny-pinchers win for today.

4. Be patient, when the driver's drop we will Tweet and link.
4 Comments
Kain
10/22/2018 04:35:39 am

Hi I really hope you can help me :) I’m disabled and I rely heavily on my Mac. I have a Mid 2010 Mac Pro (Model Identifier: MacPro5,1) with Memory of 32GB RAM.

At the time my graphics card was ATI Radeon HD 5770 1 GB and whilst playing Word of Warcraft I had this warning "Warning: Your current graphics API will not be supported in future versions of World of Warcraft, which will require DirectX 11 or Metal."

I was advised to buy the nVidia GTX980 Ti 6GB as they said its the best my mac could handle …. so I bought it :) I had absolutely no idea I had to update the graphics card but I thought fair enough. When I upgraded to Mac OS Mojave I completely forgot I had to wait for the update for nVidia GTX980 Ti 6GB first and now I’m up shit creek ha ha. What made me write this comment was I’ve just read your post about the new bollox between Apple/Tim Cook and nVidia and it scared me. Can you tell me if I have actually bought the wrong graphics card due to this war with Tim Cook/nVidia, or have I actually bought the right graphics card and its just a waiting game for the update for nVidia GTX980 Ti 6GB? My System Version: macOS 10.14 (18A391)

Thanks in advance
Kain

PS sorry I have no idea what a EFI is?

Reply
drastic ds emulator android apk link
12/26/2018 01:33:06 am

An interesting discussion is worth comment. I think that you should write more on this topic, it might not be a taboo subject but generally people are not enough to speak on such topics. To the next. Cheers

Reply
Benjamin Dittman
2/8/2019 09:04:59 am

I am running a GTX 670 2 GB VRAM card in my Mac Pro and Mojave (version 10.14.3) runs well. Mine doesn't have Mac EFI so I don't get a boot screen, so I swap in my old card in situations where I need one.

Reply
King Clovis
11/7/2019 11:47:18 pm

Any updates on this? I recently installed your GTX980 ti in my 2009 Mac Pro(firmware upgraded to 5,1) and the web drivers work fine on all my OS partitions (Yosemite, El Capitan, & High Sierra.) I am nervous about upgrading to Mojave because of your blogs and others I've been reading around the web. (Not even considering Catalina at this point.) I can't find a lot of current info around, so if you could point me in the right direction I'd really appreciate it.

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    April 2021
    June 2020
    May 2020
    March 2020
    January 2020
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    February 2019
    December 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    September 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Contact Us
About Us
​
Blog
Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • Store
  • FAQ/Installation
  • Drivers
  • Blog