Nvidia 8800GT and PhysX Firmware

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Nvidia 8800GT and PhysX Firmware

Regarding Bootcamp and The new Nvidia PhysX Firmware (177.83), Should we have to worry about any problems wit this for the Mac Pro, since it uses a Different Firmware Package for dual booting?

G4 500/1.4 G OWC, AGP Sawtooth 768 MB RAM, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Aug 12, 2008 12:26 PM

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Answer 1

Aug 12, 2008 5:46 PM in response to Polaritypictures

I'm also curious about this. I boot into XP on my MP to game and am wondering if there are any issues associated with this.

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Fortuny

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Aug 13, 2008 2:56 AM in response to Polaritypictures

Hi all,

since the Mac NVIDIA cards use EFI instead of BIOS, chances are that applying this firmware won't work at all.

Personally I won't risk using it and hope for Apple to deliver something similar in the future.

Regards

Stefan

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Answer 3

Nov 3, 2008 8:56 AM in response to Polaritypictures

I tried this under XP32 with Unreal 3 and had issues. I had to SAFE boot then uninstall to get it back. There are some support forums out there where folks are trying to do this, I am sure something will surface soon.

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