Interesting. I am dual booting XP and Ubuntu and I would love it if I could get the same results as you get with OS X and others get with Vista+modded drivers.
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Espionage724 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
