The closest I could get was a light blue screen, but it was in the whole monitor! haha, but I might just buy a new card, too, and put the 3450 in an old computer, maybe.

and thanks a TON for the guide!

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SportsGuy
Dell Studio Desktop 540
Intel Core 2 Quad 2.83 GHz Q9550 (All cores work)
EVGA nVidia GeForce 9500 GT (1GB) (Works)
M-Audio Fast Track Ultra Sound (Works)
Realtek Ethernet (Works)
8 GB DDR2 RAM (Of course works)
24" Dell 1920x1080 16:9 Monitor
Tri Boot with Snow Leopard 10.6.3 (64-bit) and Vista (64-bit) and Linux Mint

Xbench score jumped to 166.16 after installing NVInstaller (vanilla) and removing the Device ID from Boot.plist - of course, this is for the Nvidia 8600GT.

I had the same problem with the Radeon 3450 (blue screen) and no one seems to have it working properly.

what do you mean by this?:

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SportsGuy
Dell Studio Desktop 540
Intel Core 2 Quad 2.83 GHz Q9550 (All cores work)
EVGA nVidia GeForce 9500 GT (1GB) (Works)
M-Audio Fast Track Ultra Sound (Works)
Realtek Ethernet (Works)
8 GB DDR2 RAM (Of course works)
24" Dell 1920x1080 16:9 Monitor
Tri Boot with Snow Leopard 10.6.3 (64-bit) and Vista (64-bit) and Linux Mint

Is that a large jump? Where do you see the majority of the performance gains? I wonder at what level it compares to an actual MAC?

SportsGuy has a good question, what exactly did you do (in detail) to get this going?

Majority were in graphics since the NVInstaller drivers enabled Quartz Extreme on my 8600GT, not my Radeon HD 3450. In case you do have an Nvidia card and can't get Quartz Extreme through EFIStudio or OSXTools, download NVInstaller and remove "device-id" lines from com.apple.Boot.plist - only for Nvidia cards!

Hi Crimsonredmk,

Okay, I currently cannot check if I have quartz extreme but my guess is that I do. I can find out by looking at the Mac Info. If I do have this, do I need to do anything?

Also, at what point did you install the NVInstaller, at the initial install with the disk?

No, after logging in and everything. I didn't install any video drivers at Mac OS X Install - you can check for Quartz Extreme in the System Profiler under Graphics.

Crimsonredmk, lend me a hand. Within System Info under Graphics, it says Quartz Extreme Not Supported. I downloaded OSXTools and enabled Quartz Extreme, however, upon restart it did not enable it. I then downloaded EFIStudio and my video card was not even listed so I didn't do anything with this. I have a 9500 and I believe the highest it went to was a 8600 or 8800. I then downloaded NVInstaller v.52.pkg and installed "Vanilla," like you. However, I have no idea what to do from here. To find the com.apple.Boot.plist file, I have to find the following directory:
Root/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration

I then proceed to open the com.apple.boot.plist file in textedit. However, I do not see anything that resembles "device-id" lines. Here is what I get:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string></string>
<key>Boot Graphics</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Quiet Boot</key>
<string>No</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>5</string>
<key>device-properties</key>
<string>420200000100000001000000360200000d00000002 010c00d041030a000000000101060000010101060000007fff 04000e0000004e00560050004d000000200000000100000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000002200 00005600520041004d002c0074006f00740061006c00730069 007a006500000008000000000000401c000000640065007600 6900630065005f00740079007000650000000f0000004e5644 412c506172656e740e0000006e0061006d00650000000b0000 00646973706c617922000000400030002c0064006500760069 00630065005f00740079007000650000000b00000064697370 6c617922000000400031002c00640065007600690063006500 5f00740079007000650000000b000000646973706c61791000 00006d006f00640065006c0000001a0000006e566964696120 4765466f726365203935303020475420000000400031002c00 63006f006d00700061007400690062006c00650000000e0000 004e5644412c4e564d616314000000400030002c006e006100 6d0065000000120000004e5644412c446973706c61792d4114 000000400031002c006e0061006d0065000000120000004e56 44412c446973706c61792d4220000000400030002c0063006f 006d00700061007400690062006c00650000000e0000004e56 44412c4e564d6163100000004e005600430041005000000018 00000004000000000003000400000000000007000000001e00 000072006f006d002d007200650076006900730069006f006e 00000004000000</string>
</dict>
</plist>




Can you guide me through this? Thanks

I figured out there was a new version of the NVinstaller, 9f23Installer.pkg. However, I am still in the same position. Let me know

If you are using the Kexts, you need to remove the device property string out of your boot.plist