Installation disc – MacVidCards

[Joseph Owens]

[Dave Boampong] “the package came without the installation disc. Is it not supposed to be included in the package?”

No, not as far as I know. You get the CUDA driver with the Resolve installation, and the nvidia card driver is something you would need to get from nvidia anyway.

Quoting Dwayne Maggart:

The CUDA driver is a totally separate thing from the card driver. You need to download and install the card driver. You can find it here:

https://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-macosx-256.02.25f01-driver.html

This is only for Snow Leopard. Lion has the proper driver built in.

So it depends a bit on your Operating System as to what you might actually need, and as MacVidCards is not exactly a major manufacturer, some assembly is required.

jPo

PS my pair of 480s are working fine in a 16x Cubix Desktop Xpander, using the internal ATI 5770 as GUI.

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Dave Boampong]

Thanks,

It was just that this page:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/DaVinci-Resolve-Package-GTX-285-GT120-Apple-1st-Gen-2006-2007-Mac-Pro-/230695250366?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item35b68229be#ht_2512wt_922

said the package includes a software disc to enable the GTX285.

Regards
Dave

[Charlie Seetoh]

Hi Dave,

I’m planning to order the same card for my 2006 macpro. Would love to hear your feedback on the card.
I’ll be thrilled just to squeeze out 3 nodes of realtime on my 2006 vintage macpro.

[Jake Blackstone]

I had been using GTX 285 MacVidCard for over a year and there is no difference whatsoever between MacVidCard and a standard Mac version.