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Re: A MacBookPro + Microsoft Vista + SolidWorks RealView. The nVidia SoftMod.

Jorge Silva — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:45:35 -0000

I think is not possible to softmod the 9xxx in to Quadro's
No one manage to do that, and all people say that nvidia has blocked once for all that door...

Re: A MacBookPro + Microsoft Vista + SolidWorks RealView. The nVidia SoftMod.

dmoore1 — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:36:48 -0000

No prob. You might want to do a post on this since it's a question lots of people seem to be asking

Re: A MacBookPro + Microsoft Vista + SolidWorks RealView. The nVidia SoftMod.

joshmings — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:32:40 -0000

Hey Dave. Thanks for the update on the 9600. Sounds like you have a good setup.

Re: A MacBookPro + Microsoft Vista + SolidWorks RealView. The nVidia SoftMod.

dmoore1 — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:33:16 -0000

See my reply to Andrew's thread.

Re: A MacBookPro + Microsoft Vista + SolidWorks RealView. The nVidia SoftMod.

dmoore1 — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:31:38 -0000

The quadro soft mod is disabled in hardware on the 9600m. If you want to have realview capability on a Mac buy a last gen Macbook Pro and mod it. OTOH Solidworks screams on the unibody MBPro. It puts the workstation on my desk to shame.

Re: A MacBookPro + Microsoft Vista + SolidWorks RealView. The nVidia SoftMod.

solidgirl — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:30:47 -0000

Andrew,

any news - did you get a new MBPro?

Re: A MacBookPro + Microsoft Vista + SolidWorks RealView. The nVidia SoftMod.

solidgirl — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:31:16 -0000

Hello Dave....

did you get a new MBPro? ...how did you get on...any news?

Re: A MacBookPro + Microsoft Vista + SolidWorks RealView. The nVidia SoftMod.

Karch — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:22:12 -0000

I just did this with my 17" 2.5 MBP and it worked fine, I also found when I went back to the 8600M GT driver, RealView still worked in SW2009 but not SW2008. I had some issues with the Quadro driver resuming from sleep and hibernate (system would lock up) that cleared up with the 8600M GT driver

Re: A MacBookPro + Microsoft Vista + SolidWorks RealView. The nVidia SoftMod.

jorge silva — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:47:43 -0000

Any news about this? 1 month without news sucks ! :)

Re: A MacBookPro + Microsoft Vista + SolidWorks RealView. The nVidia SoftMod.

New Mac — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:08:17 -0000

Oh by the way, I am using solidworks 2007.

Re: A MacBookPro + Microsoft Vista + SolidWorks RealView. The nVidia SoftMod.

New Mac — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:07:37 -0000

anyone facing problem using the new macbook (not pro) with solidworks so far? I am running it with the new aluminium macboo 2.4 and bootcamp win xp professional. But i facing some blue screen crash and hanged occassionally when using solidworks. The file causing the problem is nvdisp.dll (the nvidea graphics). anyone else have this problem and managed to solved it?

Re: A MacBookPro + Microsoft Vista + SolidWorks RealView. The nVidia SoftMod.

Mudslung — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:57:48 -0000

I just Modded an FX 5500 with SolidWorks 2009 (Student-Edition) and it works perfect.

Re: A MacBookPro + Microsoft Vista + SolidWorks RealView. The nVidia SoftMod.

stratogavster — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:56:36 -0000

Fixed my install issue....installed XP Manager and used the "Fix MSI issue" thing...once I did that SolidWorks Installed OK!! BUT another problem!!....everytime I open Solidworks it claim to have encounterd a problem and has to close!!

Any ideas? (I can continue to use solidworks if i drag the error window out of the way, but its annoying)

Re: A MacBookPro + Microsoft Vista + SolidWorks RealView. The nVidia SoftMod.

stratogavster — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:44:21 -0000

HELP!! I can't even get SolidWorks 2009 to install on my Boot Camp XP SP3 Partition!! the installer just keeps saying it's being 'Interupted" HELP!!!...I NEED SOLIDWORKS ON MY MACBOOK PRO!!

IT WON'T INSTALL

I've tried safe mode but I get a message about administrator privileges!

Re: A MacBookPro + Microsoft Vista + SolidWorks RealView. The nVidia SoftMod.

stratogavster — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:23:08 -0000

cool!! any help would be appreciated!! any how...i'm f**ked solidworks won't even install on my bootcamp vista 32bit!! it keeps telling me the installer has been interrupted....fresh install of vista but with solidworks mounted via isobuster. Do you think I need MS office installed before it will work...i read somewhere solidworks needs office?

somebody please release an affordable and GOOD parametric application for mac!! come on Solidworks...come over to mac!!...

Re: A MacBookPro + Microsoft Vista + SolidWorks RealView. The nVidia SoftMod.

joshmings — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:53:52 -0000

hi, I've been watching the convo and while I don't have a MBP, I'll ask some others that have tried this mod.

Re: A MacBookPro + Microsoft Vista + SolidWorks RealView. The nVidia SoftMod.

stratogavster — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:04:15 -0000

Just tried this on my 9600M GT (Macbook Pro) and no luck either!!!

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?

Re: A MacBookPro + Microsoft Vista + SolidWorks RealView. The nVidia SoftMod.

dmoore1 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:03:02 -0000

Same here. I hope some genius figures this one out.

Re: A MacBookPro + Microsoft Vista + SolidWorks RealView. The nVidia SoftMod.

Andrew — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:44:54 -0000

Doesn't look like this works for the 9600m gt, there is no "low-level system setting" option. I've tried various versions of rivatuner and different drivers as i was told this could help but no combination give the option.

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.....

Re: A MacBookPro + Microsoft Vista + SolidWorks RealView. The nVidia SoftMod.

New Mac — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:56:14 -0000

Anyone try softmod for 9400M Nvidia for the Aluminum Macbook? I try following the soft mod spec but can't figure out which Quadro Driver I should use. GPU is 0863. Anyone try their new MacBook?

Re: A MacBookPro + Microsoft Vista + SolidWorks RealView. The nVidia SoftMod.

Andrew — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:17:40 -0000

Actually in this case no news is ....er, no news. Still aint recieved the laptop yet, this'll be one of the first things i try when i get it so should be able to update soon.........

Re: A MacBookPro + Microsoft Vista + SolidWorks RealView. The nVidia SoftMod.

Jorge silva — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:08:47 -0000

In this case. "no news is bad news ..."
Anyone?

Re: A MacBookPro + Microsoft Vista + SolidWorks RealView. The nVidia SoftMod.

jorge — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:34:23 -0000

Let us know something...

Re: A MacBookPro + Microsoft Vista + SolidWorks RealView. The nVidia SoftMod.

Andrew — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:41:24 -0000

I just ordered a laptop with the 9600m gt which should be here in a couple of weeks, i'll see if it works. apparently its the equivilent card of the fx 770m which is in the dell presicion

Re: A MacBookPro + Microsoft Vista + SolidWorks RealView. The nVidia SoftMod.

dMidi — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:34:45 -0000

It is reversible but I doubt the 9600 gpu has the same id as the 8600. You can certainly try, but I think you'll have to find an id that corresponds with a quadro fx gpu that shares it's internal with the 9600.

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).