Anyone with an Nvidia Quadro 4000 try running Lion yet? Does it work?

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Anyone with an Nvidia Quadro 4000 try running Lion yet? Does it work?

I emailed both Nvidia AND Apple about the compatibility of the Quadro 4000 graphics card and OSX Lion but I couldn't get a straight answer from either. I know that Snow Leopard didn't have native support for the card, but Nvidia had a driver update that had to be downloaded first before installing the card. Currently there isn't a driver update on Nvidia's website for Lion and Apple won't say if Lion includes native support for the card.

So....anyone with a Quadro 4000 tried it with Lion yet?

Posted on Jul 20, 2011 7:00 AM

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The hatter

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Jul 20, 2011 7:35 AM in response to ljpiii1

Why not just clone your system and test Lion on its own drive?

And copy the installer off to flash drive etc in the process.

One way to find out, might even reapply the 10.6.8 driver while I think 10.7 will be and is for now in its more public beta phase if you will.

also, tend to see reports posted on a couple sites:

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ljpiii1 Author

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Jul 20, 2011 7:41 AM in response to The hatter

That's actually a really good idea and I hadn't thought of that. I will give that a go and see what happens.

Thanks!

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ljpiii1 Author

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Jul 20, 2011 11:25 AM in response to ljpiii1

Ok, using The Hatter's suggestion I cloned my boot drive to an external HD and then loaded Lion onto that. Everything seems to be working great. The GPU accelerated Mercury Playback Engine in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 seems to still be working too.

So to answer my original question for those of you with the Quadro 4000, it seems to work fine.

I'm going to keep a cloned copy of my boot drive running Snow Leopard just in case I run into an issue I haven't discovered, but so far, so good.

Thanks Hatter!

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Aug 16, 2011 8:08 AM in response to ljpiii1

Hmm, I tried this and upgraded to Lion but on my system (Mac Pro 12 core) it studders even when moving the finder. Working with 3D Software is no pleasure for me.

Does anyone encounter similar problems?

Thanks for your answer!

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Csound1

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Aug 16, 2011 8:11 AM in response to traussniggnet

You're running from the external? as ljpii is?

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Aug 16, 2011 8:18 AM in response to Csound1

No, I'm running Lion from my startup volume.

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Csound1

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Aug 16, 2011 8:20 AM in response to traussniggnet

Did you make a backup of your previous installation before replacing your operating system?

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Aug 16, 2011 8:31 AM in response to Csound1

yes, I made a backup (SL 10.6.8) that is lying on an external harddrive.

Then I upgraded Lion via the App store (what else 😉) and that's it.

Lion recognizes the quadro 4000 and displays both monitors (what SnowLeopard refused to do without the nvidia drivers). SO, everything seems to be fine, but in Modo (Luxology) I get framerates of 10-15 with a moderate model what used to be 60 frames/s

About this Mac shows the following:

Prozessor 2 x 2,66 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon

Speicher 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC

Grafiken NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2048 MB

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Csound1

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Aug 16, 2011 8:39 AM in response to traussniggnet

I would have installed on the external but, I don't have an answer beyond trying the obvious, try NVidia site for new drivers, reinstall OSX.

Or revert to your backup.

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ljpiii1 Author

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Aug 16, 2011 8:44 AM in response to traussniggnet

There's a discussion on NVIDIA's forums that might be helpful. It looks like there might be an issue with the new drivers and rolling back to the older one fixes some issues. This might not be the issue you're having, but just in case, here's the link:

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=203843

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Aug 16, 2011 8:45 AM in response to Csound1

:-)

Yes, I will revert to my old system, if there is no support from Apple soon! - But - that's not what I want!

Currently (today) there are no drivers available from nvidia...

And Apple said: "...it should work, but it's not from Apple, this card is a third party device." -HA!

Thanks for your reply Csound1!

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Aug 16, 2011 8:47 AM in response to ljpiii1

I'll that a look!

Thanks for the link!

Your system is still working properly? - Otherwise you would have posted, i guess...

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ljpiii1 Author

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Aug 16, 2011 9:02 AM in response to traussniggnet

Yeah, I haven't been having any issues so far.

I'm running Lion from my SSD boot drive as my startup disk.

CUDA Driver : 4.0.21

Quadro Driver : 256.02.25f01

I'm not using the Modo software that you're having trouble with though.

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Aug 16, 2011 9:07 AM in response to ljpiii1

So you installed a nvidia driver released for 10.6.8 though you're running 10.7?

Because I did not install the "old" drivers and work with Apples built-in drivers. With them, as mentioned before, even the finder windows cannot be moved smoothly.

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ljpiii1 Author

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Aug 16, 2011 9:14 AM in response to traussniggnet

Yeah, the 10.6.8 driver is working fine for me with 10.7 Lion

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