06 Mar, 2009
How To Enable Hardware Physics Acceleration on Old or New MacBook Pro
Posted by: admin In: macbook
Here’s how to make enable hardware physics acceleration on the MacBook
Pro which used GeForce 8-series or GeForce 9-series GPU. To help us
realize this we need an support assist from the Nvidia tool called
Mobility Modder from the DriverHeaven.net.
Since this tool still comes as the second Public Beta, you should add
the INF definitions by yourself, because this tools not adding yet for
the late 2008 MacBook Pro’s 9600M GT.
a. First at all download the latest drivers of GeForce 8 or 9 series
for XP/Vista from nvidia.com
b. Better extract the driver to the C:\NVIDIA and it will install by
itself during this step. You’re no need to worry while seeing failed.
c. Download and install the NVIDIA Mobility Modder .
d. Run Mobility Modder tool and point it to the NVIDIA driver folder
you’re already extracted.
e. Double-click “setup.exe” to install. Here you’re done if they
install okay, but in case you get an error message about something
like unsupported hardware, continue by going to the next steps.
f. Open nv4_disp.inf file in any text editor you want and make the
follow addition:
Looking for [NVIDIA.Mfg] section locate at near the top
%NVIDIA_G96.DEV_0647.1% = nv4_NV3x_Mobile,
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0647&SUBSYS_00B0106B %NVIDIA_G96.DEV_0647.2% =
nv4_NV3x_Mobile, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0647&SUBSYS_00A9106B
In the [Strings] section locate at the very bottom …
NVIDIA_G96.DEV_0647.1 = “NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT”
NVIDIA_G96.DEV_0647.2 = “NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT”
g. Save the file and run it by double-click ’setup.exe’.
After reboot your MacBook Pro you’ll need to confirm that you have
PhysX hardware acceleration. To do this you can go to Control Panel =>
NVIDIA PhysX => Settings tab.
And now you should have the “GeForce PhysX” option enabled, and the
radio button selected.