[SUCCESS] Gigabyte Designare Z390 (Thunderbolt 3) + i7-9700K + AMD RX 580

[CaseySJ]

Out of curiosity, is the viewing of DRM content on TV app broken in Catalina still? Have read various reports that people just get a black screen when trying to view DRM content on the new TV app...

Let me check this tonight. I still have shikigva and shiki-id boot arguments, so need to remove and test.

Confirmed -- The TV app in 10.15.1 works properly with DRM movies. Shikigva and shiki-id are still in effect.

 

[estebanpro]

@CaseySJ I seem to have a problem. I followed all instructions and thought all was well, Preview (from the finder and the app) does not work I have a Vega 64 and use FCPX regularly so I switched to the imac 19,1 headless profile. VideoProc shows that h.264 and HEVC are not hardware enabled. Did i mess up when switching the profile?

Im on 10.14.6

 

[digumo]

System Information --> PCI will state the name of your AMD GPUs. The SSDT can be removed at any time to see what happens when the alphabetical order is reversed (i.e., when "Intel UHD 630" comes before "Radeon RX 580").

The RX580 SSDT renames the device from Radeon RX 580 to AMD RX 580. Because "A" in AMD comes before "I" in Intel, the SSDT allows apps to prioritize the AMD RX 580. By removing the SSDT, the name goes back to Radeon RX 580 or maybe RX 580, where "R" comes after "I".

So my PCI area doesn't even show anything Built In other than the Titan Ridge. Does that mean something is missing? The other entries are likely from my CalDigit TB hub. The About this Mac does show AMD Radeon VII but I don't think that's what you're talking about. Since I'm not running an RX 580 I did not include that in my patched folder.

Do you have a link where I can learn about changing the device name? I guess I need to learn about making SSDTs.

 

[djx8605]

So my PCI area doesn't even show anything Built In other than the Titan Ridge. Does that mean something is missing? The other entries are likely from my CalDigit TB hub. The About this Mac does show AMD Radeon VII but I don't think that's what you're talking about. Since I'm not running an RX 580 I did not include that in my patched folder.

Do you have a link where I can learn about changing the device name? I guess I need to learn about making SSDTs.

You don't have to use an SSDT. Just add the info to Clover's Devices Properties section.
Easiest way, launch latest version of Hackintool, select the PCI, export it. Then use the generated clover plist section and grab just the info you need, E.G. The section for your graphics card. Once you add that to your existing config.plist and restart, you should get the card to show up in PCI devices. The alternative way is to of course create an SSDT, but I find Clover's injection method works faster, especially if you are just "testing"
Once you have the PCI section inserted in your config.plist, you can change any of those strings to say whatever you want, so you can test different names.

BTW, if you have IGPU enabled, it should also show up in your PCI list, so you can also include that section in Clover, so you can also rename it to say something different if need be. However, be aware that if you already have a section in your config.plist for the IGPU (such as the Ig-Platform_ID), then you need to add the property values in that section, don't double them up by adding the same PCI device again

 

[CaseySJ]

So my PCI area doesn't even show anything Built In other than the Titan Ridge. Does that mean something is missing? The other entries are likely from my CalDigit TB hub. The About this Mac does show AMD Radeon VII but I don't think that's what you're talking about. Since I'm not running an RX 580 I did not include that in my patched folder.

Do you have a link where I can learn about changing the device name? I guess I need to learn about making SSDTs.

The guide for this is located here:

[SUCCESS] Gigabyte Designare Z390 (Thunderbolt 3) + i7-9700K + AMD RX 580

OK. Tried USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 on several devices, trying different USB port and multiple times. The installation always stops at "An error occurred validating the installer data. The download is either damanged or incomplete. (Redownload the installer and try again.)" about 3/4 of the progress...

www.tonymacx86.com

Another way to check:

• Run IORegistryExplorer and find GFX0 under PEG0 or PEG1. Click on GFX0.
• On the right you'll find a large VBIOS dump so scroll all the way down.
• You should see something like this:

 

[CaseySJ]

@CaseySJ I seem to have a problem. I followed all instructions and thought all was well, Preview (from the finder and the app) does not work I have a Vega 64 and use FCPX regularly so I switched to the imac 19,1 headless profile. VideoProc shows that h.264 and HEVC are not hardware enabled. Did i mess up when switching the profile?

Im on 10.14.6

Please try again after adding the following entries to Clover Configurator --> Boot Arguments:

shikigva=32
shiki-id=Mac-7BA5B2D9E42DDD94

 

[digumo]

You don't have to use an SSDT. Just add the info to Clover's Devices Properties section.
Easiest way, launch latest version of Hackintool, select the PCI, export it. Then use the generated clover plist section and grab just the info you need, E.G. The section for your graphics card. Once you add that to your existing config.plist and restart, you should get the card to show up in PCI devices. The alternative way is to of course create an SSDT, but I find Clover's injection method works faster, especially if you are just "testing"
Once you have the PCI section inserted in your config.plist, you can change any of those strings to say whatever you want, so you can test different names.

BTW, if you have IGPU enabled, it should also show up in your PCI list, so you can also include that section in Clover, so you can also rename it to say something different if need be. However, be aware that if you already have a section in your config.plist for the IGPU (such as the Ig-Platform_ID), then you need to add the property values in that section, don't double them up by adding the same PCI device again

Awesome, thanks! I love learning more cool stuff. I will give this a try.

 

[CaseySJ]

@CaseySJ
...
Results:

• Test 1: Success
• Test 2: Success
• Test 2, Increase DVMT to 128MB/MAX: Success
• Test 2, Increase DVMT to 1024MB/MAX: Success
• Switch to OpenCore and mirror quirks (except DisableVariableWrite) with test 2: Fail
• Test 2, Switch back to Clover, set DVMT back to 64MB/128MB defaults: Success

Odd that I can boot with the port of OpenCore's quirks + iGPU but then switch back to OpenCore with the same quirks except DisableVariableWrite (their replacement of EmuVariableUefi).

Test 3 has been added to the Experiment. Unfortunately, another failure when booting from PCIe NVMe. Booting from USB, SATA, and Thunderbolt dock is okay.

[SUCCESS] Gigabyte Designare Z390 (Thunderbolt 3) + i7-9700K + AMD RX 580

Thanks @CaseySJ these are definitely worth trying. I've always been intrigued with the whole VirtualSMC thing. Perfect time to finally dive in to it now. Update soon. Cheers! Your configuration looks perfectly fine. But some suggestions: Consider replacing FakeSMC with VirtualSMC...

www.tonymacx86.com

 

[digumo]

So here's another question. As I read up on generating SSDTs. I currently have the iGPU disabled. But this is what's confusing to me. In image #1 GFX0 in Hackintool is showing the GPU Name as Vega 20 [Radeon VII] - which would obviously come after "I" for intel.

When I open MaciASL and look at the Device Properties (image #2) I can grab the hex for the model and in image #3 it translates to Intel UHD 630.

So, to clarify, is MaciASL decompiling from... (the BIOS?) and showing GFX0 according to the hardware but then clover, (using WEG?), is telling the OS that GFX0 is, in fact, the Vega 20 [Radeon VIII]?

Just trying to learn more...

 

[CaseySJ]

So here's another question. As I read up on generating SSDTs. I currently have the iGPU disabled. But this is what's confusing to me. In image #1 GFX0 in Hackintool is showing the GPU Name as Vega 20 [Radeon VII] - which would obviously come after "I" for intel.

When I open MaciASL and look at the Device Properties (image #2) I can grab the hex for the model and in image #3 it translates to Intel UHD 630.

So, to clarify, is MaciASL decompiling from... (the BIOS?) and showing GFX0 according to the hardware but then clover, (using WEG?), is telling the OS that GFX0 is, in fact, the Vega 20 [Radeon VIII]?

Just trying to learn more...

Please see bottom half of Post #9891 above.