WOW what a read 123 pages so far lol
@macnb: Mind helping me a little? It seems you have i73770k and GA z77 knowledge lol.
I've decided to revive my i7 3770k GAz-77-ud5h build with Mojave. I do want to use it for Resolve and Premiere and maybe FCP too. I'm up and running from a fresh 10.14.6 a Vanilla install done on ADATA 500gb SSD. OLD HIGH Sierra (crucial 500gb ) drive was hooked while I did the fresh Mojave install on ADATA.
So unsure of my kext and drivers combination (because I did play with it....)
Goal: wanna avoid h264 exports or encode errors as much as possible...and optimize times...(all things relative) and yes I do have 2 other newer better machines)
Hardware:
EVGA gtx 680 sc 2gb (yes I know this what I had to install and it was supported...and yes this is an AMD thread but can't find any other related thread...and I am awaiting an AMD RX 580 8gb)
Main drive (ved2mohg): 500gb ADATA SSD
SSD2: old High Sierra drive - crucial mx500 ssd
----will carbon copy the Mojave install back to the crucial once I,M satisfied with the setup.---- ADAT will become cache drive.
Project drive: Samsung 1TB tb 860 on PCIE 4x card
PCIE asmedia 1060 e-sata card (does not work) have a 12 gb e-sata dock I'd need it for...
Rosewill wifi card (works)
I'm on 13.2 sys def (IGPU enabled in bios) with headless Framebuffer patched with Hackintool, no Mac-FC02E91DDD3FA6A4 IMP1.1 argument in plist (should I?). Intel injected in plist. Kexts are in clover other...
h264 ok from Video Proc...NO HVEC. I think HVEC impossible with this setup...or am I wrong...(tried the shikiva 256 argument made no difference)
I did a 20 sec 4k to 1080p QT export with hvec option test : took 6 minutes.... it'S slow but it worked...
Same 20 second 4k to 1080 (I assume h264) test with no HVEC option - 10 seconds
is that normal?
-Jpeg preview works
4k play in quicktime is choppy...(GPU not strong enough? or something else)
DRM seems partial: I see previews Netflix and Prime, but green screen when the films start to play. I think it's more that my screens (2k dvi only x-star 27" and 32" HDMI 1080p Sony Bravia tv) are not 4k DRM compliant. I do hear the sound can see the film thumbnails on the progress bar. If could work would be a bonus, but Prime and Netflix work on chrome anyways. 1080p for the bedroom is ok anyways lol
Haven't installed resolve or premiere or fcp yet for other exports time tests...
if I understand the other option would be ImPRO 1.1 sys definition, patched Framebuffer headless with Hackintool, IGPU disabled in bios plus cpu friend for pm management? Would that yield better h264 render export times?
My feeling is that for now because of the GPU I'd like to also use the IGPU for more "compute, export and render power"....if possible that's why I started with 13,2 first..."
Of notice: 1tb on pcie- Samsung 860 EVO seen as generic AHCI under SATA (not as a Nvme or a pic card)
tried a lot of system def, kexts, drivers and plist edits to resolve
1) Generic AHCI (tried all the unsupported, 100-200-300, unsupported, 3rd party AHCI related Sata kexts eve apple AHCI port kext.. )
2) ASMEDIA PCIe card e-sata card (2rd party E-sata kexts does not seem to work....)
3) SAMSUNG EVO 860 either recognized as Nvme or in PCIE card...
4) optimize render export times
....even tried the put kexts in LE method...
unsure if it's a) a bios setup...An ACPI rename mismatch...or a kext to patch error...
so if you could have a look I'd appreciate...