Quick Sync hardware encode w/ nVideo card as primary

[Blindedbythelights]

#4 is the correct, current method.

You don't need to do #3. That's the old method.

Ok thanks, I can run my system without Whatevergreen + lilu, however will I need these for this to work (minus #3)?

 

[pastrychef]

Ok thanks, I can run my system without Whatevergreen + lilu, however will I need these for this to work (minus #3)?

To be honest, on my motherboard and in Mojave, I can skip #3 and #4. Mojave auto detects that I have IGPU and assigns the proper ig-platform-id. I don't know if this will work for your motherboard.

My system also works fine without WhateverGreen except for AirPlay video.

 

[Blindedbythelights]

To be honest, on my motherboard and in Mojave, I can skip #3 and #4. Mojave auto detects that I have IGPU and assigns the proper ig-platform-id. I don't know if this will work for your motherboard.

My system also works fine without WhateverGreen except for AirPlay video.

Ok I should have mentioned I'm on 10.13.6, will probably try it with the WEG & Lilu there, and once working take them out and see if it brakes anything.

 

[jb007]

To be honest, on my motherboard and in Mojave, I can skip #3 and #4. Mojave auto detects that I have IGPU and assigns the proper ig-platform-id. I don't know if this will work for your motherboard.

My system also works fine without WhateverGreen except for AirPlay video.

Thanks for this tip @pastrychef. I have tried it on my 18,3 Mojave 10.14.1 and can confirm I have iGPU without any config.plist device settings etc.

Question, what is the correct or is there a correct setting for two memory settings in the BIOS. I seem to find a lot of conflicting information on this? Most probably most of it is legacy information.

Also when decoding or playing a HEVC encoded 4K film e.g "Sony Camp 4K Demo.mp4" my iGPU (GFX) setting in Intel Power Gadget rises to 0.35GHz. Is that the max freq I should get, or is not running as fast as it should?

 

[pastrychef]

Thanks for this tip @pastrychef. I have tried it on my 18,3 Mojave 10.14.1 and can confirm I have iGPU without any config.plist device settings etc.

Question, what is the correct or is there a correct setting for two memory settings in the BIOS. I seem to find a lot of conflicting information on this? Most probably most of it is legacy information.

Also when decoding or playing a HEVC encoded 4K film e.g "Sony Camp 4K Demo.mp4" my iGPU (GFX) setting in Intel Power Gadget rises to 0.35GHz. Is that the max freq I should get, or is not running as fast as it should?

I don't understand what you mean by two memory settings in BIOS. If you are asking about how much RAM to assign for IGPU, I think the minimum should be 64GB but I assign 128GB just to be safe since I run a 4K monitor.

350MHz is the max speed for UHD 630 for the i7-8700K. It's possible to overclock it in BIOS, but I've never tried this.

 

[Gigamaxx]

I don't understand what you mean by two memory settings in BIOS. If you are asking about how much RAM to assign for IGPU, I think the minimum should be 64GB but I assign 128GB just to be safe since I run a 4K monitor.

350MHz is the max speed for UHD 630 for the i7-8700K. It's possible to overclock it in BIOS, but I've never tried this.

Some motherboards have a mimimum allocated ram setting set to 64mb. And sometimes there is a Maximum allocated setting as well. Set to Max or highest setting for this one..

 

[jb007]

I don't understand what you mean by two memory settings in BIOS. If you are asking about how much RAM to assign for IGPU, I think the minimum should be 64GB but I assign 128GB just to be safe since I run a 4K monitor.

350MHz is the max speed for UHD 630 for the i7-8700K. It's possible to overclock it in BIOS, but I've never tried this.

Some motherboards have a mimimum allocated ram setting set to 64mb. And sometimes there is a Maximum allocated setting as well. Set to Max or highest setting for this one..

Yes sorry @pastrychef, I meant the two memory settings for the iGPU. So I guess the iGPU is working as fast as it can then since it's clocking at 350MHz. Thanks for the info!

Thanks, @Gigamaxx, yes I have set my minimum to 256MB and the Max to Max. I have two 4K monitors on an RX 580, so I don't know if 256MB is overkill, but it hasn't hurt anything.

 

[Gigamaxx]

Yes sorry @pastrychef, I meant the two memory settings for the iGPU. So I guess the iGPU is working as fast as it can then since it's clocking at 350MHz. Thanks for the info!

Thanks, @Gigamaxx, yes I have set my minimum to 256MB and the Max to Max. I have two 4K monitors on an RX 580, so I don't know if 256MB is overkill, but it hasn't hurt anything.

I think it is only taking memory away from the system or CPU. For windows 32mb is ok but macOS wants 64Mb minimum. You could set it to 64 and be ok especially if it’s just working in the background for decoding. When it needs it will go to max and then drop back to 64 at idle. If you have a lot of ram then it won’t be noticeable.

 

[Blindedbythelights]

Turning on my igpu has made the boot time so long!!! Like probably added nearly a minute! Is there anything I can do to try and reduce this? or is this just the deal when you enable igpu? I was having an issue before with quicktime where it wouldn't export video or screen record but it works now with igpu on in bios.

 

[Blindedbythelights]

Turning on my igpu has made the boot time so long!!! Like probably added nearly a minute! Is there anything I can do to try and reduce this? or is this just the deal when you enable igpu? I was having an issue before with quicktime where it wouldn't export video or screen record but it works now with igpu on in bios.

Fixed it using Set ig-platform-id = 0x59120003 for connector less IGPU. Now my quicktime is screen recording too.