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Anybody successfully updated CUDA driver on Mountain Lion with GTX 570 card?
I am running Mountain Lion (10.8.2) on a dual quad core Mac Pro.
I have a Cubix Desktop 4 PCIe expander which houses an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 card, among other cards.
I use primarily FCPX, DaVinci Resolve, and After Effects.I bought the 570 card in September, based in no small part on the success members here have had with it in speeding up processing.
I have been trying unsuccessfully for three days to update the CUDA driver. If you want all the gory details, I detailed every step I took in this thread, as well as all the responses (go to my very long last post):
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4731106I have no idea if the model of card I have is causing the problem.
(Did NVIDIA insert the line “If 570 card, start random errors”?)
But I do know that the 570 has ensured I can’t get any help from NVIDIA. They sent me a terse reply (exact quote) to my technical request that said:“Sorry but as of now there are only few cards that is supported with Mac OSX
GeForce 8800 GT
GeForce GTX 285
Quadro FX 4800
Quadro 4000
As the card is not recommended it would difficult for find the root cause.”
Thanks a lot for the help.Questions:
(1) Has anyone successfully updated the CUDA driver running Mountain Lion and using a 570 card?
(2) If not, what is the best currently-supported card, regardless of the brand?Man, these kinds of things should be simple.
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Yes. Works fine. Running 580s, 690s, 480s all in ml. You don’t need to install drivers. 10.8 has “magic” drivers built in.
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i have a Mac Pro 4,1 with a GTX570 running the latest CUDA drivers, but running 10.7.5. I know quite a few other Resolve users are running a similar setup with 10.8.2, so you should get some replies.
but first off, is this a PC card, or a Mac-flashed card from Macvidcards?
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Eric Hansen
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Juan,
So, you are saying that Apple has built in the latest CUDA driver in Mountain Lion 10.8, so I never have to worry about updating it?
This is new, right? Man, I don’t know why someone didn’t tell me this at the Apple OSX Mountain Lion Forum. You are on top of the technology, Juan. Thank you! -
Eric,
It is a stock card:
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As Juan says, it should work as the nVidia drivers are built-in to 10.8.2. You may need to download the CUDA drivers from nVidia directly. i installed these with no issue.
because it’s a stock card, and not flashed from Macvidcards, you won’t get the Apple boot screen, but it should operate as normal otherwise.
since you’re already running the card and 10.8.2, i would try uninstalling the CUDA driver, and then reinstalling. here:
https://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda-mac-driver.html
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Eric Hansen
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Sorry the drivers are the card drivers not the CUDA drivers. CUDA software still requires seperate install, but resolve does that itself, and updates are through system preferences pane.
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Eric,
So you are saying that the NVIDIA drivers are built-in, but not the CUDA driver?If you have time, please look at my last post in my thread at Apple Discussion:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4731106
I list every single step I took in trying to update the CUDA driver.
Maybe you can spot something that looks wrong to you, since you have done this successful. I am not getting much help over there.FYI, I followed this NVIDIA Guide:
https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-getting-started-guide-for-mac-os-x/index.html -
Oh boy. Why are you going through terminal? You probably did a lot more harm than good. I would consider doing a clean install. It does work in 10.8.2 I can personally vouch for that. And for Pete’s sake just use the installer app.
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Juan,
It would dazzle me if Resolve does all the steps needed to install a CUDA update. For example, Mountain Lion doesn’t include gcc (unlike prior versions), so you have to download and install Xcode. Then you have to go to Xcode Preferences and download and install Command Line Tools (which includes gcc). Then, you have to verify gcc is successfully installed, all before you even start downloading and installing the latest CUDA driver. You also have to create a ~/.bash_profile file (which Mountain Lion no longer has), then add two Terminal (Unix) commands (to define the environment) in the new file. These last steps require Administrator permission.You know much better than I do, but it is a very involved process (which I detail in my Apple Discussion post). At least this is the case if I can believe the NVIDIA Guide I am following:
https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-getting-started-guide-for-mac-os-x/index.htmlMaybe the answer is that the NVIDIA Guide is simply out-of-date, and the process is much simpler under Mountain Lion. If so, the guys at the Apple forum are asleep at the wheel.
Man, this shouldn’t be complicated.Anyway, there has to be a solution. If in fact Resolve is handling all this, we all owe their tech guys a huge thank you.
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Juan,
I am going through it because I am following the NVIDIA Guide:
https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-getting-started-guide-for-mac-os-x/index.htmlThe guide says it is for version 10.7 and later.
The Guide is wrong?
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