Decided to give some brief input about the 950GMA on 2 OS's that are rarely (if at all) talked about on this site. Will someone find this useful? Maybe I have no idea though...
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Intel 950GMA Hackintosh (OS X is running on a non-apple computer, illegal = yes, do i care = no :p) (Acer TravelMate 2480 latop with Mac OS X 10.5.4 installed with Vanilla kernel and iATKOS 2.0 DVD) Ok, this card under OS X still isn't that great and depending on your device ID, you may have more issues with it then others. The OpenGL effects made by the OS (dock, window animation, etc) work ultra smooth. Games, some work better then others. Major discovery right here, if you run Crossover (windows app emulator) under mac and you install a Source game (CS:S, TF2, etc) then it will run. It will run as if you are using the modded drivers under vista which leads to the weird part, Mac OS X on a unsupported laptop can run a unsupported game faster then when the laptop has a supported OS on it? Yep it's true I was really surprised to have found this out. So this card possibly either possess Software TnL in either the kext (driver) or it is Crossover that is doing it. Point is games that need H TnL will run somewhat decently in Crossover (if they can be ran) as if it was Vista + Modded drivers. What about certain Device ID's? Well there are different types of the 950GMA (mobile, desktop, some have different device id's, etc). And OS X is made to accept only 1 or 2 device Id's natievly. Others have to be modded into the kext file and then some will need other kext files. Point is it's not fun if your device id isn't supported :/ Linux Intel 950GMA Kernel is Unknown... Can't give much background information on this OS. I tried OpenSuse and Runescape HD with the stock drivers. IT SUCKED. On Ubuntu, the card performed decently. WoW under Wine gave about 15FPS highest though. Desktop effects worked ok on highest settings. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "INTEL 9XX Gaming" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/intel9x-gaming?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
