Dwaine Maggart
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Check in Resolve Preferences / System Overview, and verify that the Quadro 4000 card is actually being used as the GPU card. It should also show you the HD5770 card being used as the GUI card, but there could still be a bug that prevents the HD5770 from being listed.
The stock Mountain Lion GPU driver should work with all the NVIDIA GPU cards at this point, and certainly the Quadro 4000 card.
So, the NVIDIA GPU driver on our 10.8.2 systems is 295.30.20f02. Where did the 304.00.05f02 driver come from? That’s not the 10.8.2 driver. That looks like it could be the issue. I’m not sure how you would get back to the 295.30.20f02 driver.
Dwaine Maggart
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I would not say that at all! It’s not a supported platform, and I’m surprised it can run at all on such a system. But people reportedly have made it work. But since it doesn’t even run “fine” on a 3,1 MacPro, in my opinion, I can’t imagine it works acceptably on a 1,1 system. But it might “work”.
I’m also skeptical that a stock Mac GTX-285 card will work in such a system. The instances that I’m aware of with a working 1,1 or 2,1 system running Resolve V8 were using a Gen 1 8800GT EFI32 card.
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If you update to Lion or Mountain Lion, you can use a GTX570 in slot 1 as a combo GUI/GPU card. That would allow you to use slot 2 for the Red Rocket card, and keep your ESATA card. The single GTX570 will probably have better Resolve performance than the 5770/4000 combo. If you already have the 5770/4000 combo, then it probably makes sense to use it.
I said in my BMD Forum response to you that the GTX570 would not work in Snow Leopard. It’s possible that the EFI modified version of the card from MacVidCards would allow that to work, but someone else would need to verify that. I THINK that will work OK as long as you remove the AGPM kext.
The Red Rocket is a x8 card. It will work in a x4 slot (3 or 4) at a reduced performance level. It will work to its full potential in a x16 slot (1 or 2).
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The Quadro 4000 is a single width card, and will work nicely in slot 2, with the HD5770 in slot one. The power situation works well with this combo as well. If you had an HD5870, not so well.
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We provide access to all legacy versions of the full Resolve software. But for the Lite software, we only provide access to the current version.
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With that said, Resolve 9 won’t run on an unhacked MacPro 1,1 system.
The Gen 1 8800GT card will work (as reported by users trying it) with V8 Resolve with the MacPro 1,1 and 2,1 running in 32 bit mode.
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Conventional wisdom says that Mac 1,1 and 2,1 systems can NOT run OS X in 64 bit mode, because they have EFI32 type BIOS which does not support 64 bit OS operation.
Conventional wisdom also says you cannot use graphics cards designed for a EFI64 type system (3,1 and higher) in an EFI32 system. This is why there is a Gen 1 (EFI32) 8800GT card, designed to run in 1,1 and 2,1 systems, and a Gen 2 8800GT card, designed to run in EFI64 systems. That would imply the GTX285 would not work in a 1,1 or 2,1 system.
However, IF you have somehow hacked your 1,1 system BIOS to boot in 64 bit mode, perhaps that also allows it to work with a GTX285 card. Or perhaps its the hacked netkas BIOS on your GTX285 card that allows it to work.
At any rate, the guidance we give people applies to normal unhacked systems. If you can hack your system to work with unsupported hardware, that’s fine. We just can’t help much with supporting such a scenario.
And I should add, the only supported MacPro scenarios, as per our Mac Resolve Config guide are 3,1 and higher MacPro systems.
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A 1,1 model MacPro cannot run OS X in 64 bit mode, and so will not run Resolve V9, which only works if OS X is running in 64 bit mode.
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Did a test using Resolve 8.2.2 and the Standard Candle Test 82 using the same hardware and software as mentioned in my earlier post about V9 version testing. All my results in 8.2.2 were identical to the V9 results.
While I had 8.2.2 loaded, I also repeated the render speed test that I performed on all the V9 versions above. There was a big difference here. Instead of the 76 FPS render rates of V9, I got 25 FPS render rates in V8.2.2. Many people have commented about improved V9 render speeds, and that certainly is true on this hardware.
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Jim, I don’t see any emails that look like this. Would it have the same name as you are using here?
Yes, please try resending.
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