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ATI drivers are horrible on the Mac OS X platform too, even though Apple controls all their drivers on the platform. Even though Intel's GPUs are slow their dri
by rwbt 12y ago
ATI drivers are horrible on the Mac OS X platform too, even though Apple controls all their drivers on the platform. Even though Intel's GPUs are slow their drivers are very stable and work most of the time.
- mwfunk 12y agoThat's actually not true, the NVIDIA and ATI drivers are maintained by the vendors.
- mrec 12y agoIt's a bit of both. I believe Apple maintain the app-facing side of the GL implementation. Backend plugins are provided by IHVs to talk to their specific hardware, but with Apple still controlling the release channels. AFAIK there's no route for an IHV to get an updated driver to a user without going through Apple, put it that way.
- duaneb 12y agoThen how come you can't manually install driver updates? Because Apple controls the release channels and public facing interface.
- Audiophilip 12y agoYou can install Nvidia drivers on your own for OS X, look up "Nvidia Web Driver". Here's an example: http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/73628/en-us http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/73628/en-u...
- rwbt 12y agoAFAIK, that driver only applies to CUDA and other proprietary Nvidia platforms, not necessarily OpenGL.
- Audiophilip 12y agoI think you misunderstood something. If you read the info text for the driver on the linked page, it explicitly mentions that you need a _separate_ driver for CUDA. GPU driver: http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/73628/en-us http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/73628/en-u... Additional CUDA driver: http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cuda-6.0.37-driver.html http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cuda-6.0.37-driver.html
- mwfunk 12y agoYou answered your own question. :)