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

@WilliamHarp what about if you arm tracks for recording? For some reason playback is fine for me with lower buffers but as soon as I arm a track to record my system hangs, on-and-off.
Granted I haven't done a full on recording session with this system yet, I just did a copious amount of punch in and outs to test and its suuuper snappy.

I would check your record drive - is it performance drive with good read and rights?
What are your thermals like? I can't imagine you'd be throttling off of recording - but worth a look
Do you have any system apps open that are maybe hijacking your IO? What interface are you using?
 
Granted I haven't done a full on recording session with this system yet, I just did a copious amount of punch in and outs to test and its suuuper snappy.

I would check your record drive - is it performance drive with good read and rights?
What are your thermals like? I can't imagine you'd be throttling off of recording - but worth a look
Do you have any system apps open that are maybe hijacking your IO? What interface are you using?

Recording through an Apollo x8, having just upgraded from an HD Native setup. Never was an issue before.

Nothing weird about the drive permissions. My session drive is a 7200RPM HDD and it hasn't been a problem for me before. CPU cores hovering around ~40°C. GPU at ~50°C. None of that should be causing trouble. No other DAWs open either.
 
Recording through an Apollo x8, having just upgraded from an HD Native setup. Never was an issue before.

Nothing weird about the drive permissions. My session drive is a 7200RPM HDD and it hasn't been a problem for me before. CPU cores hovering around ~40°C. GPU at ~50°C. None of that should be causing trouble. No other DAWs open either.
And you've installed the Apollo console app? Check out the settings in there... Make sure the clock is set to the same as Pro Tools?
 
And you've installed the Apollo console app? Check out the settings in there... Make sure the clock is set to the same as Pro Tools?

Console is installed and working, but I prefer to monitor through pro tools.
It follows Pro Tools' clock alright. Recording works no problem with any playback buffer higher than 64 samples.
 
Console is installed and working, but I prefer to monitor through pro tools.
It follows Pro Tools' clock alright. Recording works no problem with any playback buffer higher than 64 samples.
I also prefer to monitor through pro tools. Thats weird that its only below 64. It makes me think its a CPU thing? For instance, my Macbook pro can't go below 128 without being a cry baby because it doesn't have enough juice...

Open up the system up the system usage and compare between 128 and 64 and see what difference it makes on the meters.
 
Thats very interesting... What happens after it hangs?


When it's hung up the display is frozen and audio output stalls. The system will un-stall for about 10 seconds before freezing again. Rinse & repeat.

I'll take a cell phone video when I have the chance.
 
I was thinking about testing it myself and you seem to have a pretty similar config. Do you have the .04 version EFI you can share? It would give me a leg up to get going.

Hi. Sorry for my late reply. I don't often get on TonyMac. I do have a 0.0.4 version. However, I advise people who Hackintosh to actually read up and do their hackintoshing, having a solid good knowledge from the documentation. from each step. I will still upload the OC-EFI folder.

The difference between 0.0.4 and 0.0.3, is massive in some regards. AptioMemoryFix is replaced by FwRuntimeServices.efi, having a booter section in the config. This way, one doesn't need to use absolutely everything AptioMemoryFix offers. This is good, because your computer might not need it anyhow.

I suggest you don't use OpenCore Configurator, as it breaks certain things in the config. Use Xcode, Smultron, PlistEdit or something similar.

You can of course try it. But I strongly encourage you read up on the documentations. Though I know people would in most cases just get their hackintoshes working without knowing what they are doing. OpenCore is still in its alpha, next version will be a beta, as I've heard, 0.5.0.

I'm not sure if Casey_SJ approves of me attaching complete OC folders here. But if he doesn't, I'm fine if he deletes my comments. I would respect his wishes.

EDIT: [NVRAM] NVRAM is an issue with Z390 and OpenCore. For some odd reason, my NVRAM works natively with this board (Z390 Designare). Which is quite odd. It could be because of UEFI version or something I got no knowledge of. This said, you might need to emulate NVRAM. If anyone else uses OC with Z390 Designare, let me know if their NVRAM works, that way we'd truly know about NVRAM in correlation with this board and OC.
 

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Hi @CaseySJ, I upgraded to F7 without issue. Nothing changed and my system is running great. I wonder what happened to @kwalter ?
Nothing happened, the system seemed fine, but if you look at the kernel log files using Hackintool you will see an ACPI error message. Never figured out what it referred to, so went back to BIOS F6 as it worried me
 
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