10 Replies Latest reply: Jul 17, 2010 1:37 PM by Jeffrey Tranberry RSS

    CS5, 10.6.4, Nvidia 10.6.3 extensions, No Crash

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      I though I should post this in it's own thread so you can find it instead of the one I buried in another thread yesterday

       

      Yesterday I replaced the 10.6.4 Nvidia drivers with the drivers from 10.6.3.

       

      NVDANV50Hal.kext
      NVDANV40Hal.kext
      NVDAResman.kext
      GeForce.kext
      GeForceVADriver.bundle
      GeForceGLDriver.bundle
      GeForce7xxxGLDriver.bundle
      GeForceGA.plugin
      Extensions/NVSMU.kext
      So far after about 8 hours of processing images I haven't had any crashes in CS5 running 64bit mode. Before the extension replace about every 10 images or so I would get the screen flicker and total computer freeze. All preference settings in CS5 were exactly the same as before with the total freeze.
      I did not clean caches or remove any fonts, only repaired permissions after doing the extension replace. I simple mounted the dmg backup image from 10.6.3 and replaced the files listed above. You should save these files from 10.6.4 first in case you want to restore them.
      A word of caution, I would not try this on a computer without another available boot partition as you really need to be booted into another partition to replace the extensions. And if anything goes wrong you can easily restore the 10.6.4 extensions.

       

      Mac Pro

        Model Identifier: MacPro3,1

        Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon

        Processor Speed: 3.2 GHz

        Number Of Processors: 2

        Total Number Of Cores: 8

        L2 Cache (per processor): 12 MB

        Memory: 16 GB

        Bus Speed: 1.6 GHz

       

        NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

       

      Doyle