R9 Nano in Sierra OS

Hello I recently built my second El Capitan Hackintosh and everything works except the R9 Nano (Sapphire Radeon R9 Nano 4GB HBM HDMI/TRIPLE DP PCI-Express Graphics Card 21249-00-40G)

When it loads - the Mac login screen it's a weird ripple effect like lines across the screen. When I try to watch YouTube videos it can barely play them when I do full screen. The card works on the Windows side just fine, so I assume it is not a faulty card?

I just ordered the GTX 970 mini, if I install the drivers and then pop that in will that work? I just want to know what to expect since I've been trying to get this going for about a week.

This is for Photoshop and Final Cut Pro work.

Build details below:

Mobo:
ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VIII IMPACT LGA1151 Mini ITX DDR4

PSU:
Corsair SF600 High Performance SFX Power Supply

CPU:
Intel Boxed Core I7-6700K 4.00 GHz 8M Processor Cache 4 LGA 1151 BX80662I76700K

RAM:
allistix Sport LT 32GB Kit (16GBx2) DDR4 2400 MT/s (PC4-19200) DIMM 288-Pin BLS2K16G4D240FSC (White)

CPU Fan:
Noctua Low-Profile Quiet CPU Cooler for Intel 115x Based Retail Cooling NH-L9I

SSDs:

For Windows OS:
Samsung 850 EVO - 250GB - 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-75E250B/AM)

For Mac OS:
SanDisk Ultra II 2.5" 960GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SDSSDHII-960G-G25

Case:
Lian Li PC-TU100b with switched out case fan Noctua NF F12

Your R9 Nano should at least have basic framebuffer support in El Capitan, might need to enable it by spoofing the device ID (have a look at the Radeon sticky thread).

macOS Sierra even added full support for Fiji based GPUs! It's not OOB but can be enabled by adding the device ID to the driver. Read here for more information.

Of course the GTX 970 would work with less effort, but where's the fun?

Fl0r!an said:

Your R9 Nano should at least have basic framebuffer support in El Capitan, might need to enable it by spoofing the device ID (have a look at the Radeon sticky thread).

macOS Sierra even added full support for Fiji based GPUs! It's not OOB but can be enabled by adding the device ID to the driver. Read here for more information.

Of course the GTX 970 would work with less effort, but where's the fun?

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Thanks for the reply. I checked out the info about spoofing but I do not see the r9 nano on that chart so I am unsure what ID I would need to use?

The Fury X has the device ID 0x7300, does your Nano have the same? If it doesn't, spoof to 0x73001002. Which version of OS X are you using? I'd assume this should be enough to load up AMD9000Controller.

If you're already using Sierra:

Fl0r!an said:

"Fiji": R9 Nano, R9 Fury, R9 Fury X
As above, try spoofing your device ID to match any Polaris 11 ID. If this doesn't work, do as described here.
There's no matching framebuffer, so only "RadeonFramebuffer" for now, unless you want to make your own.

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How do I find the device ID, It just says r9 nano its an itx card? I am using the latest version of El Capitan. The reason I went back to trying to get the Nano to work is because I tried the GTX and after installing the drives It just boots to sleep, I tried troubleshooting that but maybe the nano will have better luck since I was actually able to get it turned on.

I googled the device ID and according to this website it is says nano is 0x7300

https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/183161/amd-r9nano-4096-160212

- FakeID / ATI = full ID (here: 0x73001002)
- Inject / ATI = true
- FBName = framebuffer name (here:Futomaki [enter some random garbage in case you don’t want to use a framebuffer, the driver will default to RadeonFramebuffer])
- FixDisplay = true


I did all this and still get the weird ripple lines and glitches.

With the GTX and it booting to sleep you are likely using the iMac17,1 system profile which requires patching the AppleGraphicsDevicePolicy.kext. See this thread, problem #4 - http://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/solving-nvidia-driver-install-loading-problems.161256/

I keep switching out cards I dont know what one to move forward with at this point

Just to confirm this glitch stuff is normal and it's not a faulty card right? On the Windows side I don't have any glitching but with both cards on the Mac side I do.