NVIDIA web driver 346.02.02f03 for MacBook Pro

[Asgorath]

The latest NVIDIA web drivers have removed the hardware restriction and now install on all systems instead of just a cMP.

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/88655

BETA support is for iMac 14,2 / 14,3 (2013), iMac 13,1 / 13,2 (2012) and MacBook Pro 11,3 (2013), MacBook Pro 10,1 (2012), and MacBook Pro 9,1 (2012) users.

People are reporting some significant performance improvements with these drivers, so it might be worth installing them if you have an NVIDIA GPU in your MBP. As always, if you run into any issues, you can simply use the NVIDIA preference pane to switch back to the stock Apple-provided drivers.

 

[snaky69]

Ever since I tweaked the driver package a few version ago it has automatically updated the driver for me in the last few weeks. Glad they finally removed the need to do the tweak in the first place.

 

[SDAVE]

What about rMBP 2014 with nVidia 750m

 

[snaky69]

What about rMBP 2014 with nVidia 750m

Should work.

 

[SDAVE]

Should work.

Just tried. Doesn't run on 10.11 El Capitan Beta

Anyway to trick pkg to run?

 

[snaky69]

Just tried. Doesn't run on 10.11 El Capitan Beta

That'd be your problem right there. nVidia doesn't do drivers for Beta OS'es.

 

[Asgorath]

Just tried. Doesn't run on 10.11 El Capitan Beta

Anyway to trick pkg to run?

Yeah that particular driver is tied to 10.10.4 (14E46) and won't work with other OSes.

 

[Asgorath]

That'd be your problem right there. nVidia doesn't do drivers for Beta OS'es.

Actually, they have been releasing drivers for Developer Preview and Public Beta builds since Yosemite, the first El Capitan driver is here:

http://us.download.nvidia.com/OH74WaRQJqEYOCnaqXNdHsnFt4J8zQnN/WebDriver-346.03.01b06.pkg

Note that this is an older build and still has the system check and won't install on a MBP. I'd expect them to remove the system check for the El Cap drivers at some point as well.

 

[Cardsnk]

The latest NVIDIA web drivers have removed the hardware restriction and now install on all systems instead of just a cMP.

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/88655



People are reporting some significant performance improvements with these drivers, so it might be worth installing them if you have an NVIDIA GPU in your MBP. As always, if you run into any issues, you can simply use the NVIDIA preference pane to switch back to the stock Apple-provided drivers.

Thanks for the update, how did you find out the link though? i cant search it in nvidia website. It is just showing
346.01.03

 

[snaky69]

Actually, they have been releasing drivers for Developer Preview and Public Beta builds since Yosemite, the first El Capitan driver is here:

http://us.download.nvidia.com/OH74WaRQJqEYOCnaqXNdHsnFt4J8zQnN/WebDriver-346.03.01b06.pkg

Note that this is an older build and still has the system check and won't install on a MBP. I'd expect them to remove the system check for the El Cap drivers at some point as well.

You learn something new every day.

 

[Asgorath]

Thanks for the update, how did you find out the link though? i cant search it in nvidia website. It is just showing
346.01.03

Link was posted in my FAQ thread a while back:

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...out-nvidia-pc-non-efi-graphics-cards.1440150/

The folks on the Mac Pro forum tend to care more about this stuff since those drivers enable Maxwell GPUs, so there's more discussion about the NVIDIA web drivers over there.

 

[dma550]

The latest NVIDIA web drivers have removed the hardware restriction and now install on all systems instead of just a cMP.

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/88655

Has anyone installed with a 650M? Any performance increase?

 

[Asgorath]

I installed it on my 750M, and saw a pretty massive increase in Tomb Raider, similar to these results:

http://barefeats.com/gtx980ti.html