Nvidia recommends updating GeForce FX 4800, GTX 285 Mac drivers ASAP

Chauncey Dupree
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July 13, 2009
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Macworld is reporting that the current NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 and GeForce GTX 285 drivers won't work with the upcoming Mac OS 10.5.8 update.  You'll need to update to the newest driver firmware before running the 10.5.8 update (which is apparently arriving soon!) or else you'll get a kernel panic upon restart.

Both cards are made for Mac Pro systems. The GeForce GTX 285 is offered by Nvidia manufacturing partner EVGA. It was released in June. The drivers are available for download from EVGA’s Web site. The latest Quadro FX 4800 drivers are available from Nvidia. The Quadro FX 4800 is a workstation-level graphics card offered as an optional add-on from the Apple Store.

For your troubles, you will apparently see as much as a 20% improvement in gaming performance.

 

 

Comments (4)

B-Mac (not verified) | July 13, 2009 - 11:12am

So after the driver update and 10.5.8, the 285 Mac edition will be up to 90% as powerful as the PC edition, for only $150 more! Wow, what a deal!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 13, 2009 - 12:15pm

What is a GeForce FX 4800 exactly? Maybe it's name is Quadro, like in the article?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 15, 2009 - 7:36am

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colt45 | July 18, 2009 - 6:54am

My wife is into photo and video editing but her computer is real choopy will this help it?

Dennis

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