enjoy

12 hours ago, baroni said:

Hello enjoy, I need to buy those vga adapter for a macbook mid 2012 model no retina GT650m?

Yes, you must make the same steps like me....

GTA IV (2008)

Very High (all to MAX) +SMAA with ENB mod and textures mods + car mods  with 1680x1050 I can play the game with 30-35 FPS on my retina display...  The best story in game for me, and after 9 years finally i can run it to the max, its look great with all mods - REPLAY!

@Awesome Don't use climbshell mode on Windows! On Windows Macbook is always hot

Hitman (2016) DX12

Ultra (all to MAX) +SMAA  with 1680x1050 I can play the game with 30-35 FPS on my retina display... 

10 hours ago, Ael Dae said:

Hello, Enjoy!

 

I do really enjoy your manual, it helped me a lot to run the latest titels on ultra settings on my set up, which is  exactly the same, as yours! So, thank you a lot for this guide!

 

I am wondering if you ever tried to install newer drivers? Some games like Paragon needs  the latest drivers to work properly, as well as DirectX 12...

 

May be we should try and croudsource wich one of drivers dated starting from January of 2017 is working properly on our setups? How do you like this idea?

Its great that you make the same setup  What is your laptop model ?

I just update my NVIDIA Drivers via Geforce Experience - with the latest one - 378.66, works great!

3 hours ago, Awesome said:

Hi Enjoy! 

Thank you very much, I managed to install the driver with the goalque script, but system sees it as display, bus PCle and it says in the Kernel Extension info that No Kext Loaded. 

Hi 1050, 1060, 1070 and 1080 don't have a driver for macOS, you can run only on Windows without problems!

Forza Horizon 3

Ultra (all to MAX) + 4xMSAA  with 1680x1050 I can play the game with 30-35 FPS on my retina display... 

GTA V

Ultra (all to MAX) + 8xMSAA with 1680x1050 I can play the game with 30-35 FPS on my retina display... 

11 minutes ago, marcellom said:

external monitor. I have to say that the fans of the mac run as crazy. It crashed a couple of time during gaming. I guess it is the dust, I don't have other ideas.

Yes you must clean the fans and install https://www.crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control and set Left and Right fan to the max when you gaming

For that reason you have so small points because you have Min FPS of 7.7 - overheating and bottleneck for sure, you can see that i have Min FPS of 19.8 for example on External monitor!

Clean the dust and run the setup again with Macs Fan Control to the max

@marcellom - External monitor or Internal display ?

4 hours ago, marcellom said:

Thanks for the tips, especially those in the Control Panel.

Can you run the Unigine Heaven Benchmark with this settings:

@Awesome Yes

@marcellom I'am very happy for your eGPU setup, I don't try Arma 3, but i can run all games from my library with Very High/Ultra + AA settings (i also played and tested more games but i deleted them when i complete them or not played them). 

You can also set in your NVIDIA Control Panel: 

Maximum pre-rendered frames to 1

Powered managent mode to Prefer max. performance

Multi Display/mixed-GPU accelaration to Maximum display performance mode

Vertical-Sync to ON

Also in Power Option set to High Performance not Balanced!

I also have problems before done this settings with some games, after that no problems with all games new or old heavy games

After month with my AKITIO Thunder2 feat. EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SC 6GB eGPU setup I can confirm that this is the best way to turn your OLD Macbook in gaming Laptop.

I can play all games - FULL HD / 60 FPS (all to MAX + AA) on External Display

I can play all games - 1680x1050 / 30-40 FPS (all to MAX + AA) on my Internal Reitna Display

enjoy

@Awesome Sorry i dont know the size of the Akitio fan, you can replace it later when your Akitio come. If you follow my DA2 soldering picture you cant make mistakes, its easy.  

1 hour ago, Awesome said:

If I may ask, How did you connect the barrel to the molex? 

 

@Awesome EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB SC GAMING - draws 120W info - http://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=06G-P4-6163-KR so no problem about the power, you can use external or internal display like me with no problem!

Yes i use mod one of Startech.com 6 inch PCI Express Power Splitter Cable to close the Akitio Thunder2

The Witcher 3 

Ultra (all to MAX) + Nvidia HairWorks AA with 1680x1050 I can play the game with 30-35 FPS on my retina display

DiRT Rally

Ultra (all to MAX) + 8xMSAA with 1680x1050 I can play the game with 30-35 FPS on my retina display...

So you buy the same video card like me? -  EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 Super Clocked (1607 /1835) GAMING 6GB ?

Here is my result with  GPU +120Mhz  Mem +300Mhz (2126Mhz and 4304Mhz)

Internal Display:

So its the same, thank you for now i dont need to move to TB2, i will have the same performance!

Thanks for the tests

I found this in the Razer forums: 

Here is the link to the post: https://insider.razerzone.com/index.php?threads/razer-blade-2016-gtx-1060-benchmarks.17082/page-37#post-292119

My result is here:

So i have Razer Blade performance with 2012 - Macbook Pro

* He bumped Core and Memory clocks up to 185 and 400 respectively on the GPU

Razer Blade specification:

• ^{Latest Intel Core i7-6700HQ Quad-Core Processor}
• ^{Next Gen. Desktop-Grade NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB GDDR5 VRAM) Graphics}
• ^{Incredible 14.0" Full HD (1920x1080) Display}
• ^{256GB/512GB/1TB PCIe SSD storage and faster 16GB DDR4 2133 MHz Memory}

My MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) specification:

• ^{2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 "Ivy Bridge" (I7-3615QM) Quad-Core Processor}
• ^{8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz Memory}
• ^{EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 Super Clocked (1607 /1835) / NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB  / Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 - Graphics}

@honzicek69 Can you run the Unigine Heaven Benchmark with this settings (see the picture) on the internal retina display please?

I have closer to your video card (EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 Super Clocked (1607 /1835) GAMING 6GB) but my Macbook Retina 15' (mid 2012) have Thunderbolt™ 1 i want to see the deference between TB1 and TB2

Also you can try with Nvidia 376.09 - i have no problems with this driver and all games runs perfect with it

@honzicek69 Can you run the Unigine Heaven Benchmark with this settings (see the picture) on the internal retina display please?

I have the same video card but my Macbook Retina 15' (mid 2012) have Thunderbolt™ 1 i want to see the deference between TB1 and TB2

Also you can try with Nvidia 376.09 - i have no problems with this driver and all games runs perfect with it

Tom Clancy's The Division™

Ultra (all to MAX) + SMAAx1 with 1680x1050 I can play the game with 30-35 FPS on my retina display... great game

Watch Dogs 2 also have option to choose the Display and the Video Card - its amazing if the new games keep this option!

For everyone who is interested:

Here is the deference between Thunderbolt™ 1,Thunderbolt™ 2 and Thunderbolt™ 3

In my case, my eGPU have TB1 (PCIe x4 2.0) so we have only 5% drop vs. TB2 and TB3, so no reason to update to TB2 or TB3 laptop and Akitio Node or Akitio TB3  I will have only 5-10% better performance from what i read or 5 FPS increase in games with other words!

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