Hackintosh... so close!

[mcKayj]

I just think that this is an instance where someone needs to step back from the table, look, and think about what they are doing.

My intentions with this build were never to save money. The hours I've put into this project alone far exceed the cost of a new Mac...

The goal here is to build a rig that does everything I need it to do in a single 4RU package. At the moment, this is not possible with genuine Apple hardware. Unfortunately, I am tied to their software for the time being... Hence the osx86 approach.

I could definitely use some more indirect lighting in my tent though... do they make these Day-Glo lights in D65?

 

[Alexis Vanier]

Hey McKay,

Hang in there. I'm running Resolve very successfully with a GTS250 and a GTX480 as my GUI and GPU card respectively. Your problem is definitely with the GT120 and/or your GFX strings. The Quadro4000 should react just fine as it's using the same driver as my GTX480 and I know that works. Try using injection strings without a DSDT, that's the way I got it to work.

Anyway, you're not the only one out there. I went hackintosh for the very same reasons : needed a rackmountable package in which I could shove everything, and there's way to get it to work. I'm running two graphics cards, two raid controllers, my Red Rocket and a Decklink all at once. Here's to you Mac Pro! But... erm... I try not to think about how many hours I sank into getting all that to work.

Cheers!

 

[Aristides]

I'd also suggest getting a 9800GT 1GB, amazon has some cheap used (single slot width) ones

9800's work on hackintoshes almost out of the box so maybe you could give them a shot...

 

[mcKayj]

So, while I have managed to squeeze a few more fps out of cinebench with some dsdt edits (and make an incredibly smooth running machine in the process) my gpu performance is still less than half of what it is under win7 (26fps in mac vs. 59fps in win7)

I'm also still experiencing this glitch in 2D video applications. It's as if the drivers are preventing hardware support for 2D rendering. I checked opengl extension viewer and it seems that I have full support up to 2.1

Also noticed something strange in IORegistryExplorer...

.../display@0/NVDA,Display-A@0/NVDA

IOPowerManagement
DriverPowerState 0x1
MaxPowerState 0x2

The really frustrating thing is that it does this no matter what video card I use... I've tried Quadro 4000, GTX 285 and GT120, all of them Mac Edition. Is there some sort of ACPI power state for PCIE slots that could be acting up?

Also, my Atto card is giving me an error about "running in degraded mode" with or without disks attached.

I've decided to go ahead and swap out my tyan s7025 for an asus p6t7 which is known to work well for my purposes. If I can get it to run my quadro alone at full power I'll go ahead and pick up a second one (or maybe a pair of gtx).