Asus X299 - Catalina Support

[oli.mathieu]

Not that much of a difference between them!!
Thanks

 

[Loloflatsix]

Just some words about the LG 43U79 screen :
Yes this screen is big... so big and perhaps "Kolossal" as Kgp would like to say ...
before that: the size of the parcel was very impressive and heavy: at the Amazon delivery point, the receptionist helped me to transport and put it on my car ...
Now on my desk the size is impressive but after booting and adjust some parameters on Catalina I must say that this screen is more comfortable even in the highest resolution close to my previous 32" Samsung UHD screen, picture quality is very good with the 10 bit YCbCr 4:2:0 color mode...so very exiting to work with it.

Now I must resolve my CAD software problem : Draftsight from Dassault System has discontinued free support. That's why I opted for ALLPLAN with a free teacher license, but this software does not offer in my opinion a complete experience for my use and sadly on Windows, I try now Blender on Catalina, hope i will find the right way ...

 

[pieropontra]

So, a single Radeon VII is pretty much as fast as 2x 5700XT or 2x Vega 64 in terms of pure compute brute force

 

[canyondust]

Just some words about the LG 43U79 screen :
Yes this screen is big... so big and perhaps "Kolossal" as Kgp would like to say ...
before that: the size of the parcel was very impressive and heavy: at the Amazon delivery point, the receptionist helped me to transport and put it on my car ...
Now on my desk the size is impressive but after booting and adjust some parameters on Catalina I must say that this screen is more comfortable even in the highest resolution close to my previous 32" Samsung UHD screen, picture quality is very good with the 10 bit YCbCr 4:2:0 color mode...so very exiting to work with it.

Now I must resolve my CAD software problem : Draftsight from Dassault System has discontinued free support. That's why I opted for ALLPLAN with a free teacher license, but this software does not offer in my opinion a complete experience for my use and sadly on Windows, I try now Blender on Catalina, hope i will find the right way ...

Off topic but Dassault... like.. the aircraft company?

 

[vidmaaaa]

My system work perfect in Catalina 10.15.1 with my Sapphire nitro+ 5700 XT.
My system is X299, i9-7900X and SMBIOS iMacPro 1,1. All Adobe programs work accelerated for hardware, and Final Cut X work fine .

I update my system from High Sierra to Catalina with GTX 980 Ti nv-disable and change graphic. I'm using WEG 1.3.4.

Hi, @xerox24! Maybe you could please share the EFI folder that you used (fine either Catalina or Mojave)?
I also have X299 TUF Mark1, but I am having a hard time getting it to work with Mojave.
Thanks!

Edit: Unbelievingly I managed to make Mojave work on X299 TUF Mark1 just by ENABLING Above 4G Decoding in bios, while some earlier guides suggested to disable it!

Still, USB3.x do not work at all, only USB2.0. All the rest works very nicely - Samsung 970 NVMe disk ok, giving around 2-3GB/s speeds, graphics ok, 1Gbps LAN OK.
usb2 device in usb3 port work, while attaching a usb3 in usb3 port doesn't work at all (tried KGP's SSDTs as well).

One more quirk, just after installing OSX & EFI on NVMe drive, the bios setup doesn't seem to load anymore (gets stuck), I guess this might be related that BIOS is UEFI based.

 

[Loloflatsix]

Off topic but Dassault... like.. the aircraft company?

Yes, it was an incredible but real clue for the aircraft company

Off topic but issue for me...

https://www.3ds.com/fr/produits-et-services/draftsight-cad-software/telecharger-draftsight/

 

[ICEVISION]

My New LG 5K2K monitor

Sorry for the mess with the cables
I'm waiting for some more Philip Hue & Hub
Then I can present the set-up perfectly
With RGB lighting

 

[Stork]

My New LG 5K2K monitor
...

What is the LG's model number. TIA.

 

[ICEVISION]

What is the LG's model number. TIA.

LG 34BK95U-W UltraFine 34" 21:9 5K 2K

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JP1QK9T/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

 

[xerox24]

Hi, @xerox24! Maybe you could please share the EFI folder that you used (fine either Catalina or Mojave)?
I also have X299 TUF Mark1, but I am having a hard time getting it to work with Mojave.
Thanks!

Edit: Unbelievingly I managed to make Mojave work on X299 TUF Mark1 just by ENABLING Above 4G Decoding in bios, while some earlier guides suggested to disable it!

Still, USB3.x do not work at all, only USB2.0. All the rest works very nicely - Samsung 970 NVMe disk ok, giving around 2-3GB/s speeds, graphics ok, 1Gbps LAN OK.
usb2 device in usb3 port work, while attaching a usb3 in usb3 port doesn't work at all (tried KGP's SSDTs as well).

One more quirk, just after installing OSX & EFI on NVMe drive, the bios setup doesn't seem to load anymore (gets stuck), I guess this might be related that BIOS is UEFI based.

@vidmaaaa my settings in BIOS v2002

1.) /AI Tweaker/
a.) ASUS MultiCore Enhancement: Auto
b.) AVX Instruction Core Ratio Negative Offset: "it depends on your CPU"
c.) AVX-512 Instruction Core Ratio Negative Offset: "it depends on your CPU"
d.) CPU Core Ratio: Sync All Cores " in my case x43" I no oc cpu
e.) CPU SVID Support: Enabled
f.) DRAM Frequency: e.g. DDR4-3200MHz - it depends on your kit ram

2.) /Advanced/CPU Configuration/
a.) Hyper Threading [ALL]: Enabled
b.) MSR Lock Control: Disabled

3.) /Advanced/CPU Configuration/CPU Power Management Configuration/
a.) Enhanced Intel Speed Step Technology (EIST):Enabled
b.) Autonomous Core C-States: Enabled
c.) Enhanced Halt State (C1E):Enabled
d.) CPU C6 report: Enabled
e.) Package C-State: C6(non retention) state
f.) Intel SpeedShift Technology:Enabled
g.) MFC Mode Override: OS Native

4.) /Advanced/Platform Misc Configuration/
a.) PCI Express Native Power Management: Disabled
b.) PCH DMI ASPM: Disabled
d.) ASPM: Disabled
e.) DMI Link ASPM Control: Disabled
f.) PEG - ASMP: Disabled

5.) /Advanced/System Agent Configuration/
a.) Intel VT for Directed I/O (VT-d):Enabled

6.) /Boot/
a.) Fast Boot: Disabled
b.) Above 4G Decoding: "On" in bios 1704 o higher and "off" in bios 1503 or lower. I use bios 2002.
c.) Set your specific Boot Option Priorities

7.) /Boot/Boot Configuration
a.) Boot Logo Display: Auto
b.) Boot up NumLock State: Disabled
c.) Setup Mode: Advanced

8.) /Boot/Compatibility Support Module/
a.) Launch CSM: Disabled

9.) /Boot/Secure Boot/
a.) OS Type: Other OS

I attached my efi folder with everything I use,remember to disable CP00 -> PR00 since they are for my cpu.
Igeneretate new serials numbers in this efi for you.

my ssdt ANS and ANS2 there are my nvme , need to edit.

For my all work perfect and no issues, I use rx5700xt in catalina 10.15.1 , need config your graphics card in clover and delete in boot arguments "agdpmod=pikera.