My Solution at end... sorry about lengthy post...
Hi like the previous two posters I am having problems with the QE/CI
I'm new and over the last 4 days probably installed OSX 10.5.6 about 11 times. To the point that I can get everything upto this stage within 15 minutes. Everything works great but no advanced rendering features.
I tried many different things and finally got your EFI string tutorial to work. My current build uses the EFI string I created from your tutorial on Page 1.
The results are as follows.
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT DDL:
Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT DDL
Type: Display
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x8
VRAM (Total): 512 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0605
Revision ID: 0x00a2
ROM Revision: 3172a
Displays:
SyncMaster:
Resolution: 1600 x 1200 @ 60 Hz
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Software
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Not Supported
QuartzGL: Supported
Display Connector:
Status: No display connected
I enabled quartz3d with OSx86 Tools, but not Quartz Extreme or Core Image.
So here's a list of what I have done in my current set up as it is now.
AMD 2x5600+, Nforce 4 mobo, EVGA 9800 GT
Installed iPC 10.5.6
Installed EFI String as you instructed (seem to be working SEE ABOVE)
Installed Standard 10.5.6 drivers you posted at:
Enabled Quartz3D in OSx86Tools
I tried the original 10.5.5 drivers from page 1 of this thread yesterday on a previous osx install with no luck. Should I try them again or stick with these 10.5.6 ones I downloaded from your other thread:
aquamac.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=osx86driversandkexts&action=display&thread=785Any help with this would be greatly appreciated and hopefully will sort out the 3-5 people that posted recently with the same problem.
I really hoped to figure this out by myself but after 4 days I gave in, so sorry to be a nuisance
*****GOT IT WORKING*****
I spent a few more hours playing with plist strings and DTDS (wasn't sure about the last but wanted to be sure)
Anyway, got tired and figured I'd try an injector again. The first couple of installs of OSX I did I tried NVInject, Darwin etc, and none of those worked. The string seemed to produce the best results.
This last time, after seeing others with the same card were having similar problems, I went back through the other 34 page thread and noticed a few people mention ATY_Init by someone called Netkas which seems to be an ATI initializer.
Anyway I installed that to check it out. Booted with -j -v and saw that ATY-Init complained that my 605 card was already installed.
So I went back and removed my string from system preference folder and started up again. Next boot ATY_Init said it found my card with vram etc and sure enough, profiler shows QE/CI enabled.
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It really does seem like currently these things are quite hit and miss. I did learn quite a lot though
And it's great to have things working .