ANYONE successfully using Quadro 4000 in a mac?? Please tell me the secret!

[Joseph Owens]

[Chris Tomberlin] “This happens when I have only the 4000 installed. I have an ATI 5770 but thought that I would try to get the 4000 working before throwing another card in the mix.”

Are you answering your own question? I was under the impression that Resolve configuration required a GUI card plus a GPU for image processing and that trying to run the app with only one card was not recommended. This would be part of the limitations that apply to MacBooks, and once OpenCL is added in the next version, iMacs.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Chris Tomberlin]

It is my understanding that the 2 graphics card recommendation is for performance, not for stability or functionality. I’ve had some success this morning with just the one card after getting a driver combination that seems more stable. I’ll try the two card setup later today and report.

Thanks

Chris Tomberlin
Editor/Compositor/Owner
OutPost Pictures

[Andrew Shtern]

MacPro early 2008 8-core 2.8GHz
Slot 1 – NVIDIA Quadro 4000
Slot 2 – NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Slot 3 – Blackmagic Decklink HD Extreme 3D
Slot 4 – Areca ARC-1222 RAID Card
Mac OS X 10.6.7
Blackmagic Drivers 7.9.2
CUDA Driver 3.2.17
GPU Driver 1.3.4.0 (256.01.00f03)

Works like charm!

Maybe you should try not to mix NVIDIA and ATI cards, but use another NVIDIA card for GUI (maybe you have spare to try with it)?
Also try the usual troubleshooting steps, like removing all other cards, all but two memory modules etc.

Andrew Shtern
Editor/Colorist
The Coffeepost @Kiev, UA

[Jens Herold]

Hi Chris,
is this fixed now?
You have to have at least two graphiccards in your system.

One for the GUI, this could be an ATI Radeon HD 5770 for Mac OR a NVIDIA Quadro 4000 for Mac if you want to go with a NVIDIA Quadro 4000 for Mac as a GPU. This is the card to connect with the Monitor.
AND a second card as a GPU in your case NVIDIA Quadro 4000 for Mac Make sure, that there is NO Monitor connected to any port of this card! Ist just theGPU for image processing not for displaying anything.

we sold many of these systems to our customers and they are all making money with them…

Maybe https://www.blackmagic-design.com/media/1034879/davinciresolvemacconfigguide.pdf could help you also.

Please let me know

P.S. you cannot use the ATI Radeon HD 5770 for Mac as a GUI card and a NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 for Mac as a GPU, because they are both 2 slots width and you’ll run out of space in the Mac Pro

Jens
creative tools
Hamburg, Germany
https://www.creativetools.de/products/davinci.html

[Kris Anderson]

I’m having some trouble too…

Here’s my set up.

Mac 2 x 3GHz Quad Core – MacPro3,1

Motherboard PCI config

Slot 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Slot 2: Cubix PCIe interface
Slot 3: Avid DX Card
Slot 4: HBA Adapter card (ATTO) for external RAID array.

All working fine.

Cubix 4 Expander config:

Slot 1: Nvidia Quadro 4000
Slot 2: Nvidia Quadro 4000
Slot 3: Empty – pending arrival of Red Rocket Card
Slot 4: BM Decklink Extreme HD.

CUDA drivers are latest version but Resolve does not see the 2 x Quadro cards… only the 8800GT. It warns me each time I launch that I need GPU processing as well and recommends a couple of cards for the job.

BM are looking at it but I ‘ll ask here too.

Any ideas?

[Rohit Gupta]

Have you installed latest NVIDIA driver for OSX 10.6.7?

[Kris Anderson]

Yes, updated via the CUDA panel in system prefs. No newer version available.

[Sascha Haber]

https://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-macosx-256.01.00f03v7-driver.html
This one too ?

A slice of color…

DaVinci 7.1.2 OSX 10.6.7
MacPro 5.1 2x 2,4 24GB
RAID0 8TB eSata 6TB
GTX 285 / GT 120
Extreme 3D+ WAVE

http://www.saschahaber.com

[Chris Tomberlin]

DO NOT update to the latest v4 CUDA driver via the contol panel in system prefs. Stay at the last v3 CUDA driver. I made this mistake and it was one of the things causing me trouble.

Chris Tomberlin
Editor/Compositor/Owner
OutPost Pictures

[Kris Anderson]

Sascha, yes, got that one.

Chris, thanks for the heads up. Is there a way to roll it back to the other version?

The odd thing is, the mac knows there are two extra display cards when I do a system profile. It doesn’t know they’re quadro’s but it knows there are two extra cards there. Resolve sees nothing though.