Gigabyte Z490 Vision D (Thunderbolt 3) + i5-10400 + AMD RX 580

[CaseySJ]

I think it is there when I tried again but still Final Cut rendering is so slow. I even found my old post where with z390 with radeonboost.kext and patched intel igpu together with Radeon VII my rendering of the same video was 2:47 and now is 7 minutes...

now geekbench GPU is 170k vs 130k without the radeonboost.kext but on z390 with i9900k I had 220k

Now they have i9 9900k for 370$ which looking how that worked faster is maybe better option for me but not sure since I did not try i9 9900k on big sur

Are you running these Z490 benchmarks on Big Sur or Catalina?

 

[ChromeGuy]

Everything checked out fine, but it just wouldn't work in Yosemite. Then I remembered I had a Sierra OS I could boot into and it worked fine in Sierra. So I didn't feel like troubleshooting any further. Phew!

I managed to get everything up and running easily with a few issues I hope can be easily fixed.

1a. My main issue: The desktop background images won’t stay as what I set them too. They keep resetting to that default island.

I’ll reboot the computer, and the screen background on both monitors will be the correct image, then I enter my login password and when it loads the desktop it reverts back to the default island…. Very annoying.

1b. Possibly related with that problem: I have a dual monitor setup. I went into System Pref > Displays > Arrangement and moved the menu bar/dock to my main monitor. But when I start computer, the login screen defaults to the 2nd monitor which is usually powered off unless needed. If I just logout and login again, it is correctly on my main monitor but after a restart it is on the 2nd monitor.

As an update to this, incase it helps anyone in the future:

I seem to have fixed the background images resetting and have them correctly stay for now.

My original monitor configuration was:
Main Monitor: Connected via HDMI port on RX580
2nd Monitor: Connected via DVI port on RX580

I changed out the DVI cable and replaced it with a DVI to HDMI cable. So now both monitors are connected with the HDMI ports on my RX580. After doing this, and rebooting multiple times, it seems my background images are staying with what I set them to instead of constantly resetting to the default Dynamic Island when I login.

I'm hoping that the background images will stay now and this fixed it.
Appears the Hackintosh doesn't like having a DVI monitor connected in my case for some reason.

Unfortunately, it did not fix the Login screen. It is still appearing on the 2nd Monitor instead of my main one that I setup in preferences.

 

[Diorama]

Are you running these Z490 benchmarks on Big Sur or Catalina?

Big Sur now but I went yesterday and installed Catalina to try it there and I am getting the same results.

Also I had z390 only for a month when I decided to wait for z490 and i9 10900k but I remember how I got 220k points for GPU on Geekbench 4 and what I posted here numbers from my benchmarks for rendering 3 minutes and something was ok but I was able to get it down to 2:47 I just found my notes with Imac pro 1.1 on asus prime a z390 with i9900k with radeonboost.kext and also correct patch for igpu where igpu was showing in system report - graphics/display together with radeon vii where here now only radeon VII is showing up and I only see intel 630 on PCI report. Also hackintool is showing this in attachment.

 

[nss]

Agreed -- given the small price difference between the K and KF, it's better to go with the K because iGPU can be useful in emergencies. Also, macOS will utilize Intel QuickSync on the iGPU.

Alright, I'm thinking about taking the i7 10700. Is it compatible with macOS?
I see it's base frequency is kinda low-2.9 GHz, would it badly affect my performance when gaming/programming?

 

[Diorama]

Big Sur now but I went yesterday and installed Catalina to try it there and I am getting the same results.

Also I had z390 only for a month when I decided to wait for z490 and i9 10900k but I remember how I got 220k points for GPU on Geekbench 4 and what I posted here numbers from my benchmarks for rendering 3 minutes and something was ok but I was able to get it down to 2:47 I just found my notes with Imac pro 1.1 on asus prime a z390 with i9900k with radeonboost.kext and also correct patch for igpu where igpu was showing in system report - graphics/display together with radeon vii where here now only radeon VII is showing up and I only see intel 630 on PCI report. Also hackintool is showing this in attachment.

now adding this

I just tried to replicate patch that I had for my z390 630 igpu and I copied this to OC. What I got is closer little bit from what I had there , 175k result but final cut does not work. I also got that now GeekBench shows both cards for test and you can select 630 and do the test and that is how it was on my z390 when I was getting 220k geekbench 4 gpu and 2:47 minutes rendering 8 min. 4k in h264 vs now 7 minutes...

also when I had that patched on z390 in the system report under graphics/display I was able to see both card Radeon VII and 630. I tried now since it is showing as a card for tests with patch to change gpu to igpu but still did not get final cut to open...

in my attachment gpu.png there we have to see both cards to get those results from z390.


now editing this since I posted...

I tried to delete some of the rows there for PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0) where I added my full patch in the screenshot included from z390 which gave me 630 as an option to do the test on geeekbench and that is what I had with z390. Only thing extra that I had is that both cards should show under system reports/ graphics/display

with full patch final cut was not working I tried to delete some of the stuff there and left just those below and now final cut works and I got 5:12 rendering time result vs above 7 minutes before. Still way off from z390 and 2:47 minutes but at least two minutes better. Also geekbench 4 GPU 175k now vs 130k without this and geekbench 5 60k vs 48k ... I think some fine tuning is needed here for patching this igpu and that is causing that rendering is so slow

PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0)

AAPL,ig-platform-id 07009B3E Data
AAPL,slot-name Internal@0,2,0 String
device-id 9B3E0000 Data
device_type Display controller
framebuffer-con0-index 02000000 Data
framebuffer-patch-enable 01000000 data
framebuffer-unifiedmem 00000080 data
model Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Desktop 9 Series) String

 

[inapis.crazy]

Unfortunately, it did not fix the Login screen. It is still appearing on the 2nd Monitor instead of my main one that I setup in preferences.

For boot, monitor preferences set in macOS are somewhat ignored. For my RX 580 Pulse, I had to swap the order in which the monitors were connected to the GPU.

Based on this image, the leftmost display port has the highest priority and the right most hdmi port has the least priority and everything in between follows that order. No idea where DVI sits in that priority order.

 

[xtreem.p]

Wow.. the price has gone down for the Vision D!

Anyone predicts this will go lower?

 

[THEMATIC]

When follow the guide in step 2 when making the USB I get this message in Terminal:

macOS Catalina.app does not appear to be a valid OS installer application.

Tried several times, no success. Any ideas?

 

[xtreem.p]

When follow the guide in step 2 when making the USB I get this message in Terminal:

macOS Catalina.app does not appear to be a valid OS installer application.

Tried several times, no success. Any ideas?

Have you tried re-downloading the installer?

 

[THEMATIC]

Have you tried re-downloading the installer?

Yes I did, also downloaded 10.15.4 once to just try. Always same message.
I'm doing this on a Mac mini 2011 with a patched 10.15.6 maybe that's causing the problem? Sorry I'm fairly new to Hackintosh.