This is quick and dirty how-to to get Quartz Extreme and Core Image at full resolution working on OSx86 (with OSX 10.4.8) a nVidia 7600gt 256MB card.
Follow the simple insructions below and you can’t go wrong:
- Install OSx86 with the optional
Natit
package - Once booted find your card identifier by adding the
DeviceID
andVendorID
together to get a string (mine is0x02e110de
) - Edit the corresponding
<string>
tag for theIOPCIMatch
key in these four packages/System/Library/Extensions/Geforce.kext
/System/Library/Extensions/NVDANV40Hal.kext
/System/Library/Extensions/NVDANV30Hal.kext
/System/Library/Extensions/NVDAResman.kext
If the file is like this:
<key>IOPCIMatch</key
<string>0x00000000&0x0000ffff</string>
Replace it with this:
<key>IOPCIMatch</key
<string>0x02e010de&0x0000ffff</string>
If the key has a number of values in the string tag, just add 0x02e010de&0x0000ffff
to the start of the list.
- You now need to flush the kext cache so run:
sudo rm /System/Library/Extensions
- Now reboot and enjoy the goodness of Mac OSx86 :)
I cannot claim the credit for this, I got it from a post by sinjon on the osxx86 forum