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I am almost giving up on Hackintosh. I switched out my PG279Q for a 4K HDR-TV since I played more games on my PS4 than my PC.
I get a black screen with my 1080 after installing the drivers. I am now looking for others with a similar setup to share their insights so that I can figure what I am doing wrong. I am quite certain my issue is with the HDMI-port on my GPU since a similar install worked on my PG279Q with displayport.
My specs:
MSI Xpower Titanium Gaming Z170 (latest bios)
Palit 1080 Jetstream
Intel 6600K
16Gb Ram
Long story short, everything worked before I switched monitors. The TV only has HDMI inputs but is capable of 4K@60Hz even with HDR enabled. Worked flawlessly in Windows and on PS4 Pro on those settings. With the previous working setup I used displayport.
What I have tried so far:
- Using System definitions iMac (14.1/14.2 and the latest) and Mac Pro (5.1, 6.1)
- Modifying AppleGraphicsDevicePolicy /Installing Lilu and Nvidia kexts with the instructions (tried method 1-3 on different installs)
- Installing AGDPfix and with confirmation of the install
- Unchecking bootflags and injectors per guides in this thread
- Activating the drivers in Clover and manually (also made sure to run the latest version of clover)
- Using HDMI-Displayport cables and adapters (even active adapters with 4K@60Hz-support). Also tried different HDMI-cables and ports on the TV
- Using the internal graphics on the 6600K and got the web driver to load and the card fully operational in rendering with Premiere for example
- Turned off HDR on the port in question
So, basically when the driver loads I get a black screen. When I uncheck the web driver the computer boots with no acceleration.
If I boot with the internal graphics I can get the screen to output a 1080p@60Hz-signal. I can then use the 1080 to render in Premiere for example. This would be fine for me if the resolution were a bit higher.
But, it should work with a 1080 on HDMI right? Is there away to control which ports on the GPU are active or not? I have read that some system definitions disables ports per default since the gpus in those system only has one or two ports.
Should I just give up and buy myself a Macbook Pro? Is there anyone else here that has experienced the same issues? And if so, how did you solve it?
/ Jesper, Sweden
You are probably going to need to use an active DP 1.2 to HDMI 2.0 adapter. macOS doesn't support HDMI 2.0 so you won't get 4K @ 60Hz using HDMI alone.