ATI Radeon 9600XT vs. NVIDIA GeForce4 Titanium

[CC_333]

Hi,

I presently have the 9600XT installed in my MDD, which is working quite well, but I want OS 9 Mac OS X Jaguar to have accelerated graphics (which is not possible with the 9600XT as far as I know), while maintaining full compatibility with QE/CI on Leopard. The reason being so that I can try to use my RTMac again (I could use it in Panther, but the latest available driver which is obtainable only works reliably with Jaguar and earlier; there was apparently an updated driver for Panther, but it seems to be offline now, and is thus unobtainable).

That being said, will the NVIDIA GeForce 4 Titanium offer comparable performance under Leopard, while being compatible with at least Jaguar? Or should I just stick with what I have?

Any ideas? Is it possible for me to hack support into OS 9's ATI drivers somehow?

I believe this card was stock (or BTO?) on the early G5s, the earliest of which came with a special version of Jaguar that presumably had the needed drivers. If I could find that, that would accomplish 50% of my goal. Then I can play around with OS 9 and figure out how to get those drivers to work, if it's even possible.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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[Unknown_K]

Radeon 9000 is what I went with for 9/osx dual booting machines.

whats the filename for the rtmac driver you are looking for?

 

[CC_333]

I tried before, but it's like rtmac4.1 or something (the one that's still available is 4.0). I can't remember the exact name.

c

 

[NJRoadfan]

MatroxRTMac4.1.img.sitx

Try contacting them about the file, the link is still on their site to some random FTP server.

 

[CC_333]

This is dumb.

I just tried a search for this file, and it led me back to here!

This file seems to have been lost to time.

Oh, well.

If I could just get it to work with Panther, then my video card will work (unless I can get the special G5 10.2.7 so I can try copying the driver over).

c

 

[techknight]

This link is still good: 

ftp://redirect:r45j99t3@video.matrox.com/private/rtmac40_final/MatroxRTMac4.0.img.sitx

 

[CC_333]

Yes, I have that one, which is good for 10.2 and FCP 4.0.

The problem isn't that I can't run 10.2 and FCP 4.0, it's that the video card I have only works with 10.3 or newer (or the special G5 build of 10.2.7, because it was a pull from a 1st gen G5 tower of some sort).

If I can get the driver files from the G5 10.2.7, then I could probably make it work. Otherwise, I'll have to downgrade back to the MDD's stock card.

c

 

[CC_333]

10 years later, I try searching again, thinking maybe someone would've found and posted MatroxRTMac4.1.img.sitx by now, but no! The search still leads me back here!

The search continues....

c

 

[ArmorAlley]

The search continues....

Have you tried this?

Matrox RTMac - Macintosh Repository

Matrox RTMac is a PCI card for G4 PowerMacs which performs video I/O and basic compositing for previewing edits, fades, transitions, etc. It's a...

www.macintoshrepository.org

 

[CC_333]

Have you tried this?

Matrox RTMac - Macintosh Repository

Matrox RTMac is a PCI card for G4 PowerMacs which performs video I/O and basic compositing for previewing edits, fades, transitions, etc. It's a...

www.macintoshrepository.org

I actually did! Alas, like everyone else they only go up to 4.0, which is the latest available version.

After 10 years, I've pretty much lost interest in using my RTMac on anything newer than what driver 4.0 supports (I might try using it on Mac OS 9 for the novelty), but I was recently reminded of it again, and I figured I would give finding driver 4.1 another try.

Incidentally, I did discover this evening by dissecting the link @techknight posted in 2015 that the FTP server appears to still be live, so perhaps the file still exists, and all that needs to be done is to find a way to get at it.

c

 

[Unknown_K]

The file was in a private directory that no longer exists.