[READ ME FIRST!] Graphics Setup & Troubleshooting

[mrBitey]

Guys, I'm running out of ideas. I've been fighting with getting a Pascal graphics card running for over a week now. Learned a lot along the way, but still no joy. Got a GeForce GTX 1060 3GB card. I can get it to load the web driver (at least that what it says) but there is no difference in graphics at all. A lot of flickering and such. Noticed that it's not showing up in ECC in the Nvidia Driver Manager Settings either. Posting my config.plist file in the hope that someone might be able to give me some pointers. Thanks!

 

[baaelectronics]

My machine with HD 530 graphics is being incorrectly identified as HD 7000 7MB and will display artifacting all over highly complicated parts of the display. When installing Intel 5xx drivers from MultiBeast, the machine hangs on the Apple logo, but with Lulu and IntelGraphicsFixup kexts installed, the machine boots fine but still does not utilize the full HD 530 specs.

 

[mrBitey]

OK. So looks like the card is loading correctly now. All the weird screen-glitching has gone away. Upon logging in everything looks great, but things are starting to drag now, as if the OS is struggling to keep up with basic tasks, like opening a menu. Seems to get worse as time passes. Behaving as if too many apps are open or something and it's running out of memory to keep up, but it's got 16GB of RAM so it can't be that. BTW, I'm using a native HDMI monitor now so any HDMI==>VGA adapter issues can be ruled out.

Not sure what next steps I should take to resolve this.

Found out what the issue was.
By accident, after pressing F8, I chose the wrong drive to boot up from--by wrong drive, I mean one that I was running OS X El Capitan on, with Clover v2.3k_r3423, instead of the one running OS Sierra with Clover v2.4k_r4077. By doing that, I inadvertently booted the OS Sierra drive using an older version of Clover (v2.3k_r3423) that was running off the separate OS El Capitan drive. The end result was OS Sierra running perfectly fine!

I pushed this theory a little further and installed Multibeast 8.2.3 for El Capitan (which contains Clover v2.3k_r3423) onto the OS Sierra drive (instead of Multibeast 9.1), and now when I boot directly from the OS Sierra drive, everything is running great! Nvidia web driver is loaded, graphics card is properly recognized.

For the life of me, I could not get 10.11.x to ever run smoothly, even when using Clover v2.3k_r3423, but quite frankly I really don't care anymore since I'd rather be at the latest release anyway.

Thanks for your help!

 

[gubraune]

Someone could get two monitors working with nvidia web drivers?

I have MacOS 10.12.5 and the latest web drivers

My system definition is 14,2

I have one GTX 1080ti Founders Edition with two monitors, both are conected via DP on my card

With one Monitor the system works perfect, when I start de second one, it doesn´t get any images eventhough it is detect by OSX.

Tried everything, Lilu kext, Nvidia Fix kext, nvidia_drv=1.....

Any help will be apreciatted

 

[CeeeWeee]

SOLVED: I used method 6!!! (from the Driver Load section)

Hi Forum,

just yesterday installed my first Hackintosh ever - so far so good.

BUT - I have no luck with the graphics. When I Inject the Nvidia card during boot in Clover, the card show in "About this Mac" but with only 7mb. In the Nvidia panel ECC it says "No Device Found".

I attach my config.plist. I hope one of you guys can check it for me.

By the way - I had it working last night. Now I do not remember the sequence of things I did. I remember it seemed simple after installing the drivers. Later I decided to start over (some SMC panic issues) and I am stuck here.

Thanks!

 

[OregonNatter]

When I want to change the Resolution to my native one (1280x1024) the system is freezing. The Nvidia Web Drivers were installed successfully and I Can open the Nvidia driver. The Graphics card is shown right (2GB Ram, Nvidia GT 610….)

Any solutions?


I am on Sierra 10.12.6



EDIT: Now I got my native resolution, but I got Glitches and the performance on Launchpad is very poor. The GPU is shown up right

 

[Stork]

When I want to change the Resolution to my native one (1280x1024) the system is freezing. The Nvidia Web Drivers were installed successfully and I Can open the Nvidia driver. The Graphics card is shown right (2GB Ram, Nvidia GT 610….)

Any solutions?

I am on Sierra 10.12.6

EDIT: Now I got my native resolution, but I got Glitches and the performance on Launchpad is very poor. The GPU is shown up right

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[kill3r94]

EDIT 2 (SOLVED): Okay, so after doing further research I resolved the issue following the steps in Problem 6 located here. Appreciate this forum and all the people who have made this site!

EDIT: Okay, so I removed the GPU and it booted back into the OS without issues. I then removed the GPUSensors.kext and reinstalled the GPU. The system loaded fine without issues but it's defaulting to the OS X Default Graphics Driver. I tried to switch it to the NVidia driver but every time I reboot it goes back to the default driver. Can anyone recommend anything to try and fix that?

Hello All, not sure if this is where I should post my issue (If not please move to correct thread) but I just purchased and installed a EVGA 1060 6Gb (You can find the card here ) and before I installed the card I installed the Web Drivers without issues and made the necessary changes to the config.plist file. I go to boot up the system and I get a KP (see screenshot). Not sure what to do now as I am new to this whole hackintosh thing. I do have my config backed up in case I have to restore it. If anyone can provide assistance I would greatly appreciate it! If more info is needed please let me know!

PS: Everything was working fine before the card was installed: iGPU and Audio.

Further information:
-SMBios: 14,2
-Sierra 10.12.6
-Latest Nvidia Driver from Nvidia

 

[Stork]

hi anyone here who has the same issue like mine? this happened after waking the the machine from sleep.
View attachment 274707

Yes. There are several ways to recover.
- move the cursor to the lower right corner (hot corner); or
- logout and then log back in (PITA to try to do); or
- sleep again for 2-3 seconds and re-awake.

I also use this utility which I place on my Desktop. It is a script that does the same as the last item above.

 

[Stork]

The script is just like an app. If you don't want to use it, trash it.

BTW, over the last couple of days, I've put my system to sleep over night. It wakes up just fine, like you mentioned. So, the problem is for short term sleep/wake-up. Interesting!