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I know it is possible to soft-mod ATI cards as well, but I have been browsing a lot of forums without finding the right procedure.
I really wish Nvidia would sell a supported version of this. I would happily pay $100 directly to Nvidia to be able to make a solidworks workstation out of any laptop - the market is crying out for this. For example, there are no 16:9 workstations and I like the Sony Vaio Z @ 13" and the HP HDX16t @ 16" - and even the Macbook Pro @ 15".
btw, I love your comment - "...to be able to make a solidworks workstation out of any laptop" - that would indeed be nice.
My clunky Dell is grey & black... :|
The difference between Apple and Dell is build quality. The new MBPs are glass and precision machined anodized aluminum with the exception of the keyboard.
Slightly nicer PC's, granted, but remarkably similar all the same, narrowing the gap and moving away from the established Mac brand style - but strangely further towards their brand opposite....hmm I'm baffled.
I guess the black frame is something to do with viewing movies in the dark.
I'm not sure the high gloss screen is conducive to design work... I hope it's not a serious issue since the mat screen is no longer available.
Still, I want a Mac for all the benefits they afford, that will still deliver high enough performance with Solidworks. Sadly the aesthetic benefits are diminishing, as i need to buy now, not next year by which time they may have swung back...
Does anyone know if this soft mod of the 8600M on last years MBP is more or less effective than results on the New MBP with the standard issue 9400M & 9600M ?
[SW 08 &/or 09...?]
did you get a new MBPro? ...how did you get on...any news?
What about the number of windows that can be open ?
I may borrow a pals book as a temporary measure, but I guess that they would want the graphics card back, as was, when I'd finished with it... is this a permanent modification?
Go ahead and try the fix, it doesn't touch your gpu in any way...it's only a 'softmod' (ie software modification) and not a BIOS fix (which could brick the gpu).
Or Josh M, is the option for rolling back the video card driver in the control panel or somewhere in the Riva tuner? And is this the only step that needs to be done?
As soon as I did the install I noticed that I was not able to wake the computer from sleeping. If I closed the lid before shutdown, I had to hold the power button down to get the computer to turn off, and then I could turn it back on. Not a big deal and well worth the benefit of the Realview graphics enhancement.
There is another issue that I am grappling with and it may have nothing to do with the tuning, but I want to eliminate the tuning from the list of causes. Every 2 weeks or so (sometimes once a week), I get a "Missing operating system" message on boot up of Vista. I've not found a way around this, and I have to do a complete restore of my Vista partition from backup. Sometimes when I do this I actually lose my mac OSX as well and I have to restore everything. Total pain.
In searches for solutions I have come across a good number of people who have a similar problem and they have narrowed it down to Nvidia drivers and such. I never had this problem before doing the Rivatuner, but I also didn't see this problem show up until about a month after the mod.
Other possibilities: I switched to a domain account about a month before the Riva mod. I also did a EFI upgrade to the mac side of things about a week before the first time I saw the missing operating system problem. I'd blame it on the EFI upgrade except I've seen no other mac people have this problem (at least on the forums).
Right now my display adapter is listed as NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M. Will the roll-back change that back to the 8600M? I guess I'll find out soon enough... But I would like to try to go all the way back to the stock system it that is possible. As in before I did anything with the RivaTuner.
My neighbor had the same issue with his PC as well. As far as the missing OS message, I am not sure what would cause that. Are you using Parallels or VMWare to connect to Bootcamp periodically? I have had that corrupt my OS before, not OSX but Vista.
I started using WinClone to backup my Windows partition in case of a corruption. I would see if there are some issues with your HDD as well since corruption on both OS partitions. I think I have the same exact hardware setup as you and have not experienced the issue as well.
If you suspect that the HDD is corrupt, I would call Apple Care to see if they can't get you a new drive. It is good to hear that you have partition backups! Keep me posted. ~Lou
I've also scanned for hardware changes.
Any thoughts on getting my 8600 to show back up? I only have a windows performance rating of 1.0 right now!
I would guess your install is coript on some way. I would remove
rivatuner as well.
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Thanks for your help!
Doug
hear you are back to normal!
Lou
Anyone?
any news - did you get a new MBPro?
Either Nvidia have made sure this cant be done or it needs a different approach. Hopefully someone smarter than me will be able to work out a way.....
There is no 'Low-level system setting' somebody pleeeeease help!!! it does appear that this gpu core is shared by the FX770M so in theory in must be possible to soft mod?
somebody please release an affordable and GOOD parametric application for mac!! come on Solidworks...come over to mac!!...
IT WON'T INSTALL
I've tried safe mode but I get a message about administrator privileges!
Any ideas? (I can continue to use solidworks if i drag the error window out of the way, but its annoying)
No one manage to do that, and all people say that nvidia has blocked once for all that door...
in university i work with real view and its much more fun :-(
pleez god send a mod...
jan from germany