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

janmeissner — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:20:59 -0000

hi, are there any news about the macbook pro - 9600 GT and real view graphics?
in university i work with real view and its much more fun :-(
pleez god send a mod...
jan from germany

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

joshmings — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:35:55 -0000

You can usually find in on the nVidia download drivers section

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

pros911 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:12:57 -0000

the link to dowload fx 570m driver not work anymore and I realy need it Please anyone have anothere working link ?

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

gol10dr — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:29:30 -0000

Sorry I didn't mention that first. I assumed you removed it. Glad to
hear you are back to normal!

Lou

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

doug — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:59:08 -0000

Thanks! Removing Rivatuner seems to be the last step. I can see my 8600 video adapter now and I'm completely back to normal.

Thanks for your help!

Doug

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

gol10dr — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:40:59 -0000

If you are on vista you can have it find drivers. If that doesn't work
I would guess your install is coript on some way. I would remove
rivatuner as well.

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

doug — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:34:33 -0000

I rolled back the driver, but now I only get a Standard VGA adapter as my display adapter. I used the mac boot disk to go through the Boot Camp drivers, but no joy.

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!

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

gol10dr — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:06:33 -0000

Doug - I have not seen this before but have seen some issues with sleep mode with Vista. I know this has nothing to do with the mod and think there are some issues with sleep mode in Vista in general. I have a system in the office (PC) that will not wake from sleep all the time and had to disable it.

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

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

doug — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:06:57 -0000

So to be more specific for Josh, this is only on the Vista side of things that I am having problems, so I will try the rolling back of the driver. I'm going to do some backing up before I do the roll-back - but just a question:

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.

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

doug — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:48:27 -0000

I have a Macbook pro from late 2007. The tuning has worked just as described, I use Solidworks and I was able to access the Realview graphics for my CAD drawings. I love the way that part works! But, there is at least one drawback, and maybe more:

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).

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

gol10dr — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:27:50 -0000

It is not a mod in rivatuner. You can simply go into the device manager and right click on the driver listed under Display and select Roll Back. I have used that before. What version of MBP did you tune? Just curious since I have been running this for quite a while without issue.

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

joshmings — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:55:58 -0000

I'm not too familiar with the Mac process, but on the PC it was a driver instl. just installed the previous driver. I'll try to find out a little more from Lou Gallo who know the process inside out. Thanks.

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

doug — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:43:26 -0000

Anybody have some explicit instructions for rolling back the softmod? I'm having some boot-up issues and I want to eliminate this as a possible source. When dMidi said that it is reversible, I'd like to know how.

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?

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.