Getting Nvidia drivers working

I was having issues getting the Nvidia 970 web drivers installed on Yosemite, so I thought I would share how I managed to get it fully working, since I didn't see posted anywhere

I started by trying to install the drivers using the pacifist approach highlighted here to no avail, and installing the package directly gave an 'unsupported version' error.

I did some digging and found you can easily patch the installer to bypass the version check, and install the package directly, without needing pacifist.

In a new terminal:

pkgutil --expand WebDriver-343.01.01f01.pkg WebDriver 

This will dump the contents of the install package into a folder named WebDriver.

Modify the WebDriver/Distribution file, and remove the following lines towards the top:

if (!validateHardware()) return false; if (!validateSoftware()) return false; 

Then recompile the package:

pkgutil --flatten WebDriver patched.pkg 

This will create a new install package named patched.pkg, install the package, and it should succeed. In order for it to finally work, I ran the update check and restarted, but everything now works perfectly.

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