WARNING: nVidia & 10.6.8 Apple Update

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WARNING: nVidia & 10.6.8 Apple Update

Posted by John Richard on June 25, 2011 at 4:13 pm

Apple’s recent 10.6.8 OS Update currently breaks the nVidia Quadro 4000 for the Mac graphics card.

10.6.8 also temporarily broke a lot of Apple apps like FCP7 and FCP X but then suddenly the same day as 10.6.8, there was a new driver for this card on the nVidia site. Unfortunately, this new drivr only fixed the Apple apps and left the GPU acceleration in Premiere CD5 and 5.5 dead in the water.

Sure seems strange that Apple would zap their competitor but fix their own competing apps ; >}

Stick with 10.6.7 until this get sorted out – Premiere was working great until 10.6.8

http://www.LightPrism.TV

Jimmy Brunger replied 14 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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Todd Kopriva
June 26, 2011 at 2:40 pm

Nvidia is tracking the issue here:
https://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=203839

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John Richard
June 28, 2011 at 1:38 pm

https://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cuda-4.0.19-driver.html

The fix is located here.

Restores the CUDA acceleration in Premiere with Apple’s 10.6.8 and the latest nVidia driver for the Quadro 4000 for the Mac.

That was quick work – THANK YOU TO ALL for the effort.

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Todd Kopriva
June 28, 2011 at 4:29 pm

Here are the details and instructions from the Nvidia folks:

“Quadro 4000 driver and CUDA driver update for Mac OSX v10.6.8”

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Jimmy Brunger
July 1, 2011 at 11:07 am

Hi Todd/All,

Just bought and installed a Quadro 4000 for Mac, for use in CS5.5 and also for Freeform Pro….

I installed all latest drivers and 10.6.8 update, etc BEFORE installing card. However Now I’m up and running with it installed PPro isn’t seeing it (Mercury Playback option is greyed out) Any ideas?

Something it *could* be is that I also still have installed my ATI Radeon 2600T, due to the fact that I need 1 x DL DVI output and also a DVI>VGA output for my plasma. Quadro card only has single link DVI for 2nd port and their supplied DVI>VGA adapter doesn’t fit! So currently got both monitors being driven by ATI card and was just going to use Quadro for GPU accel for now. Should this work do you know?

Another thing I noticed when I initially plugging my 30″ ACD into the Quadro the OS/dashboard/Expose, etc was REALLY sluggish.

Is there any way to test my Quadro is installed correctly?

UPDATE: PPro is now not seeing my Decklink 3D Extreme card for playback either. I have options to capture via BMD, but no external monitor/export option…?

Thanks,
Jim.

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