2013 iMac NVIDIADriver

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Charles Hess Author

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2013 iMac NVIDIADriver

I have a late 2013

27" iMac. 32 GB RAM.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M video card, 4GB VRAM.

I recently had the drive wiped and they did a fresh reinstall of Mojave.

All data was then migrated from my backup.

I now do not have the option of choosing the NVIDIA web driver over

the Mac OS driver. It's greyed out in the control panel.

Some applications I use in video work are misbehaving a bit.

Could this be related?

NVIDIA has dropped support and drivers appear to be no longer available.

I did find a site with what appears to be the last available, but for High Sierra.

Solutions?

iMac 27″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Sep 4, 2021 4:47 PM

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Answer 1

padams35

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Sep 5, 2021 10:31 AM in response to Charles Hess

The Apple/Nvidea spat has worsened to the point where the two can no longer agree on terms for a driver update. Starting with Mojave Nvidea web drivers are unavailable.

Downloading the High Sierra web drivers is pointless: there is no harm, but the drivers won't work either.

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Answer 2

rkaufmann87

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Sep 4, 2021 5:49 PM in response to Charles Hess

Individual GPU drivers are not available separately for Macs. All the drivers are integrated in the Mac OS. On such an old Mac run Catalina 10.15.7 and you will get the most up-to-date version of Mac OS available for the computer.

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