MacBook w/ X3100 Vid Card Question

Anyone know how well one of these will run World of Warcraft? I am looking at upgrading my bf's iBook G4 to one of these if it will run WoW decently. It is really all he plays but I don't know how well the X3100 is vs the GMA 950 that was in the older ones which would only get about 10fps.

Hey CFD and welcome to the forum -
Here's the requirements for Mac:
Mac:
Operating System: MacOS X 10.3 (Panther) or better. check
Processor:1.0GHz or higher G4 or G5. check
RAM: 512Mb or higher, DDR RAM recommended.
*Video: ATI or NVIDIA video hardware with 64Mb VRAM or more.* Nope!
Hard Drive Space: 3Gb or more available. check
I'd say that a MacBook is not your answer for this game as it is shared memory.
-GDF

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GMA X3100 graphics card.

I was just wondering,
I want to buy the Sims 2 game for Mac, but it says i require a Radeon 9000 graphics card or better or a GeForce FX5200 graphics card or better. I currently own a MacBook with a GMA X3100 graphics card. I want to know if the Sims game will work with my current graphics card, as I already found out that Need For Speed Carbon wont work with it. I would also like to know if it will work with Leopard, as I recently upgraded.
Thanks in advance

Hi MacDeejay!
I was able to get Sims 2 running on my MacBook with the X3100 card without any major issues. I found that I needed to turn my graphics settings to low or else the more that began to appear on the screen things would slow down dramatically. Occasionally I'd get some odd rendering as some shaders and color combinations would take longer to load than others. I'd imagine the game to run extremely well on the MacBook Pro but it certainly runs on the MacBook.
It is listed on Intel's site for compatible games for the X3100 as well...
http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intelgm965/sb/CS-026146.htm

Dual ADC displays and a vid card w/ no ADC ?

Hi.
I've got a PowerMac G4 with an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro vid. card. I bought it when I purchased my 17" Apple display not knowing that the Apple display had its own connector that required me to but a $99 adaptor that also requires a power cord!
Anyway, my old CRT (that acted as my 2nd display on the G4) finally died. I purchased a nice 15" Apple display, but apparently forgot to consider the ADC connection.
I need a cheap, fast solution.
I've got a G4 with the 9800 Radeon which has a DVI and VGA connection.
By the way, does having 128MB DDR of video ram help with rendering time??
Ok, back to the original question.
I also have the original video card that came with the PowerMac G4 1.2mhz Quicksilver. I believe it's an 9000 Radeon. It's got an ADC and VGA connection.
How can I setup a dual display on the G4 with the two Apple displays? Both are ADC and neither card has (2) ADC connections.
I've got two ADC to DVI convertors and I have the VGA to DVI convertor that came with my 17" apple display, but the DVI end doesnt match the DVI end on the 2nd ADC to DVI convertor.
Any suggestions? Is there a dual ADC video card?

Hi
As far as I'm aware, the Radeon 9000 that came as the stock graphics card in certain PowerMacs had an ADC connector and a DVI connector. It also came with a DVI to VGA adapter. If this is the case you should be able to attach one monitor directly to the ADC connector and the other to the DVI connector using the $99 DVI to ADC adapter. You'd be losing the benefit of the Radeon 9800 though.
Unfortunately there aren't any graphics cards with dual ADC connectors, as the card (and AGP slot) would have to provide enough juice to power two monitors. The options seem to be:
1. One AGP card with an ADC connector and DVI connector, which would require one DVI to ADC adapter, such as the Radeon 9000.
2. One AGP card with two DVI connectors, which would require two DVI to ADC adapters, such as the Radeon 9600 retail version. Mines worked perfectly, although there do seem to be problems with it in certain Quicksilvers and Digital Audio G4s.
3. One AGP card with a DVI connector, which would require a DVI to ADC adapter, such as your existing Radeon 9800 and one PCI card with a DVI connector, which would also require a DVI to ADC adapter, such as the Radeon 9200. An AGP card with an ADC connector would also work but seems pointless given you've already got the 9800 and adapter.
Unfortunately I'm not sure there is a really cheap solution. As already mentioned, there are VGA to DVI converter boxes on the market, but they're incredibly expensive and you'd be converting from digital to analogue and back to digital, with some loss of quality.

Macbook GMA X3100 drivers?

hello everybody,
Does anyone know if there are new drivers or updates for the GMA X3100 grafic card,for my macbook.
When i play a movie or if i do visualities in itunes the grafic card cant handle it,what to do?
thanx

What do you mean by "can't handle it"? What happens?
How much RAM is in your machine? Are any processes consuming a high amount of CPU when you do these things? You can open up Activity Monitor (Applications>Utilities) to check this. Make sure "All Processes" are being shown (the option is in the upper-right corner) and sort by %CPU. Are any processes consuming high double digit CPU?
~Lyssa

Colors All Messed Up, SERIOUS vid card/driver problem

ok, so i'm just surfing the net tonight in firefox, nothing unusual, no other programs on except coreduotemp, which is reading at a steady 65-70 and all of a sudden, the colors on the screen went haywire. i could see the shapes, move the cursor around and read lettering, but the colors looked like 1 bit colors, like 10 total colors with no gradations and very very washed out!
what the heck could be going on with my machine?
so i tried to restart... same thing. everything would look normal until one second after mac os booted up, it'd revert to the weird willy wonka coloring. so i tried a complete shutdown and waited 30 minutes to see if it was a heat issue. same thing.
then i tried booting to windows xp... it worked perfectly! the irony of it all.
booted back into mac os. willy wonka again. so i went to systems preferences and tried to change resolution. still messed up. so i changed colors from "millions of colors" to "thousands". still messed up. but when i changed it to "256 colors" it looked almost normal again. no more willy wonka colors but now looks terrible, like i'm working on an old commadore 64.
so i'm just going to take it back in tomorrow to the apple store and demand a new computer. i'm just curious to see if anyone else have had this issue or what the heck could be going on.
MacBook 1.83GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

well, i just changed the RAM back to the stock 2x256 sticks. still the same problem.
i've been trying to figure out if macs have an "update video driver" function like windows does. i even went to intel's site to see if i could download a new driver for macs, but no luck. (this is my first mac so i'm not familiar with how mac vid cards update their drivers).
also did a system update, didn't change anything.
ack, i'm so used to fixing my computer problems myself, this is really frustrating about mac so far...

SATA & new vid card. Do I need a new PS?

The question(s).
Does a SATA drive need more power? I have an Athlon XP 1500 on a KM4M-V board w/512 ram. the PS is a 300W Silent X bought from Newegg 6 months back.
Does a dual vid card need more power?
The background.
I have been trying to fix a serious to random blue screen prob. It all started at some point while I was doing these upgrades.
1st - Install new 80G Seagate SATA drive. Works fine with the 64 mg.NVidia card that I have had for a year or so.
2nd - My son orders two Asus V9400X (Gforce4 MX4000) dual monitor vid cards (128 mg.). I take one. Everything seems fine with the Viewsonic 17" crt monitor.
3rd - New Neovo 19" LCD - last part.
The BSOD was really bad last week (I formatted & re-loaded the OS five times). Now it is just random. I pulled/re-seated cards, re-pluged plugs - helped but still have occasional blue screen.
Thanks for any help or ideas.

Not really, but an additional device always requires more power, especially during startup. Adding more devices always adds an accumulative power requirement.
Dual RAMDAC's do require a slight bit more power when operating in dual monitor mode, but nothing to speak of really.
Without the data the BSOD is giving, your power supply's make/model/specs (See Suggestions on posting and getting better answers at the top of this page for clarification on info.) it's all going to be guessing from here. My inclination is you are experiencing several problems, perhaps the power supply is now being pushed to it's limitations (see Is your problem caused by your PSU? )
Perhaps it is just a driver or OS issue. You can be running along just fine for a year or two, but adding new hardware and drivers, can push OS registry health over the edge. You may have to use a driver cleaner utility to remove the previous drivers completely before installing the new drivers. See http://www.drivercleaner.net

P35 Neo MB and a PCI Express 2.0 Vid Card?

Hey, all:)
First time poster here, so hope this is the right spot for my question.
Here is the new card I want to put into my system. It will replace a MSI 8800 GT 512:
MSI N550GTX-Ti Cyclone OC GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi) 1GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16
My MSI P35 Neo MB says is PCI Express 1.0. Will a PCI Express 2.0 vid card run on a MB that is PCI Express 1.0? I do have a 585W PSU.
I am guessing it may be backwards compatible, but my tech knowledge is pretty low:)
MSI P35 Neo MB, current BIOS 1.60
Intel Core 2 Duo [email protected] GHz
4.0 Gskill PC 6400 RAM
X-585 PSU
XP Home SP3
Thks, all for any help:)

It will be backward compatible, however, I don't think you will benefit much from upgrading to the N550s as you can't utilize the full PCIE 2.0 lanes and speed, whereas the 8800GT are the top of line within their own series and you can make use of its full potential.

Where can I buy a larger hard drive for my late 2008, 15" macbook pro? From reviewing questions and answers on the support community it would appear that having Apple remove the old and install the new hard drive is recommended. But how/where?

Where can I buy a larger hard drive for my late 2008, 15" macbook pro? From reviewing questions and answers on the support community it would appear that having Apple remove the old and install the new hard drive is recommended. But how/where?

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
You can install the new hard disk yourself if you want to. You just need a 2'5" SATA II hard drive, which is compatible with your MacBook Pro. You can buy one at OWC > http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/2.5-Notebook/ You can filter hard drives by computer, so press a "Click to view all...", choose your computer in the sidebar and it will give you the compatible hard drives.
There are different brands for the MacBook Pro. The most recommended are HGST and Seagate, which have good reputation. A 7200 rpm hard drive will give you extra performance

Can I change my Macbook Air's Graphics card?

Hello, I'm having a problem with my Macbook Air's graphics card. When i open After Effects CC, it says that i need an approved NVIDIA Graphics. That in other means, should I change my Macbook Air's graphics card? Even some programs requires me an NVidia Graphics or ATI graphics to render the media. This annoys me a lot as i can't render the media out the software!
So, is there any possible way i can customise my Macbook Air's Graphics by changing it or some sort?
Service it? Pay it? Ask the iBox store? Dismantle it myself? Please help!!
Product: Macbook Air (128 GB)
Operating System: OSX Mavericks 10.9.4
Processor: 1.4 GHz Intel Core i5
Graphics: Intel HD 5000 -----------> Needs to be changed!!!
Memory: 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Thanks afterwards! =D

Hi.
Macbook Airs only handle integrated graphics card, and there is no slot on the Motherboard to add one. If you want a discrete graphics card, to use with professional software, you need to go towards an iMac, Mac Pro or 15 inch Macbook Pro Retina. If you do not want to buy a new machine, you could get an older second hand Macbook Pro with a discrete graphics card.
The Macbook air isn't built to use this kind of software.
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
All the best,
James

How to upgrade my Macbook Pro's Graphic Card?

I have a Early 2012 13 inch Macbook Pro and it's ***** when I play games.
Here are the specs:
- 2.8 GHz dual-core Intel Core i7
- 6 GB RAM
- Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB
- OSX Mavericks 10.9.2
- 750 GB HDD 1333 MHz DDR3
It lags a lot when I play such an old games such as GTA Vice City (the FPS drops a lot when my mac getting hot) or GTA San Andreas (quite stable). Both of them aren't modded and still original. Is there any way to upgrade my Macbook Pro's graphic card?

You cannot upgrade the Graphics card on a laptop because everything is built into the logic board. Unfortunately your perticular graphics chip is actually built into the CPU, and is a very low performing chip which would definately make gaming hard.
Sorry for the bad news.

ATI vid.card trouble shoot guide

True,
There seem to be some stabilty issues with ATI, all of which can be overcome.
First is the VPU recover option. That option makes it less stable and does nothing beneficial, best turn it off.
Also faste write (bios option), it doesn't enhance performance, only decreases stabalitity.
If it is still unstable, set AGP to 4x. This makes it slighly (less then 1pct. ) slower, but might make it more stable.
Other drivers occasionly might help. For older cards, older drivers are best suitable. E.g. a R9700 runs best on Cat 4.5. Do make sure the driver you use supports the DirectX version that you need !
Last resort is upping the AGP voltage (no more then 0,1v !). If it is still instable, RMA it !
Despite the issues, I still think ATI makes very good vid.cards. My next card wil probably be an ATI again

And I thougt you were my friend
Look here for the performance difference fast write and AGP4x make:
http://www.pctuning.cz/Default.aspx?CatID=75&LayId=2&ArtId=19189&ChapID=4944
These tests have been done with a 9700PRO the difference will probably be more significant with a faster card.
Furthermore, take into account that a 9600 draws from the 5v line, the 9700, 9800 and X800 draw from the 12v line as well.

Vid card for TV to HD Display yet?????/

Aloha All,
I am wondering where to find a vid card that allows cable hookup to see tv on my 30" HD display. I am not looking for a unit to record TV. I am looking for a card to fit into the pci express slot and be able to do both computer and TV functions on my 30" display and preferably in HD of course.
Ideally one card with a cable input and DVI out, and or one with a switch to go back and forth.
Does anyone know if anyone has make the like and if so where, ($$$$ not an issue), Maybe I should make one my self. What do you think?
Mahalo RDM

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Vid card issues I think??

Good day, I'm having some major issues with my card "I think"
When playing MOH Pacific Assault, Battlefield Vietnam, and Doom3 my sys locks up and/or I get major video corruption. I have tried updating all of the drivers forward and backward and no luck . One error that I get says that the Vid card got stuck in a loop. I have gone to the Nvida and EA site and no help. The only thing that I found was that their is a known issue with MOB running with Nforce 3 chips and to uninstall the GART driver "No idea how???" Here is the post on that, some of it doesn't apply (ATI, Punk Buster,
"This combination of hardware has been reported to freeze gameplay, and is due to a combination of these hardware elements. Resolving this issue has become a stalemate between ATI, Nvidia and Evenbalance. Here is some information which may help you address this issue:
Problem does not occur on non-Punkbuster servers.
This problem seems specific to WinXP.
Removal of the Nvidia GART Driver clears this problem up.
Reverting to ATI's 3.9 seems to clear this up for some.
Reducing the AGP aperture size reduces the amount of delay.
Decreasing the PB scan frequency with pb_sleep decreases the frequency of the freezes.
Changing from an ATI to Nvidia card seems to have eliminated problems for many users."
Any idaes???? Thanks..

Quote from: MrBigA on 11-February-05, 22:55:20
Hi,
I wouldn't remove the GART driver. I have a NF3/6800 Ultra OC setup and I disabled fastwrites in my system bios to resolve loops and freezes. The combo works wonders now!
Good Luck,
You want to try the easiest solutions first and turning off fast writes would be a good place to start as suggested. If it is not implemented properly it can cause instability.
There are also a few other settings that should be in there you can try messing with such as AGP Aperture, 4X or 8X...etc.
I also would use 3DMark 2001 as a stability test. It pretty much runs with every video card and drivers out there. Using a game might not be a good idea because a lot of games have problems with certain drivers or certain cards. At least if it passed 3DMark you would have some idea its not the drivers, card or even gart.
If it doesn't pass 3DMark then I would start looking at your motherboard drivers (GART). The chance of 3DMark not working with any version of Nvidia drivers is very slim unless they are corrupted.
To uninstall the GART you would go into device manager and right click it and uninstall. Windows will restart and try to install drivers on it's own. You can cancel it by clicking on the icon in the system tray if your quick enough. (WinXP)
Another way to do it, is just updating the drivers by again going into device manager, right clicking and this time picking update drivers.
You should have the drivers you want to use on the computer somewhere like maybe the desktop.
Another thing you can try is reinstaling DirectX, that is one of those easy things that doesn't hurt anything to try. Also make sure your video card is not overheating in the case. Open the case and have a house fan blowing on it while you try 3DMark or playing a game.
One last thing when you look in device manager the GART might not be listed as GART, at least on my NF7-S it is not listed that way. The GART would be anything related to AGP under "System Devices"

Help! Need a quick answer about motherboard + vid card

Hi everyone,
Okay I am pretty scared right now. I got a new vid card, the MSI n9008gt. I also got a 6pin PCI connector for my power supply to power the card. I have a 450watt power supply. And my motherboard is a GeForce7050M.
I put my card in, I attached the power supply to the card, and then plugged it in and pushed the power button.
I hear my motherboard fan, my HD, and the vid card fan. But no display, and nothing else... I think to myself, hmmm. So I unplug my card and take it out and use the intergrated card, and the fan starts up and my HD starts up, but still nothing happens. The motherboard doesn't even beep... Did I fry my motherboard....? :( This is what I fear the most.
(and no I'm not on that PC right now this is an older one.)

Quote from: asamkipas on 09-January-09, 01:27:27
haha I think it is the n9800gt catd...must be a typo
Oh please provide your full system spec
whoops, yeah it's the n9800gt. Typo.
Ok, my full system spec:
Processor    AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5000+ Socket AM2
CPU Fan    AMD Original AM2 CPU Fan
Motherboard    ECS nVidia GeForce 7050M-M Motherboard
Memory    2GB DDR II 800 Memory 240 Pin (Major Brand) 　
Hard Drive    Western Digital 160GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache Serial ATA II
Optical Drive    LG 22X DVD RW + Dual Layer
Video    nVidia Geforce 7050 based with 2D/3D Graphic Engine up to 256MB Memory
Audio    Realtek ALC662 6-channel HD Audio
Network Card    Onboard 10/100 Network Card
Ports    6 USB 2.0 Ports, 1 Serial
Case    1285 Deluxe Black Tower Case
Power Supply    450 Watt Power Supply
(I just lazily copy and pasted, sorry for all the info hahaha)
But I'm figuring that I don't even hear the bios beeps, so the motherboard is just fried.

Mega 180-----Media Center III and a Vid Card----Working???

I'm trying to narrow down what is causing Media Center III to crash intermittently on my Mega 180.
I think I have it narrowed down to the SoundStorm drivers conflicting with Media Center III
But I want to eliminate that it is a problem with the 18G "Crush" onboard video chipset. I am using the onboard only.
Anybody have a vid card in their AGP slot of the Mega 180 and use Media Center III??
Are you still getting crashes in Media Center III??
John

Finally I give up using the Media Center. I'm using now Girder with Nathans great plug in (see MSI Mega series girder plugin version 1.0 available ). The only disadvantage is that the fancy leds are not working.
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