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Gigabyte X299X - Catalina Support

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teosoft said:
Why iMac Pro, not Mac Pro?
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Mac Pro need fix memory errors like this, iMac pro needn't.
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lx23 said:
Mac Pro need fix memory errors like this, iMac pro needn't.
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So take 10 mins to do a memory map and the error goes away, and then you can likely drop WEG kext also. I do not know for sure but I have read stuff that says iMac Pro will throttle your GPU and CPU because it believes it is in an all in one case while Mac Pro will let stuff run at full bore.
 
Build 1 Titan Ridge TB3
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Something I have been trying to understand is what else is in the real iMac Pro... As it is able to successfully encode h.265 10bit ("main10" profile) video out of Davinci Resolve while our Hackintoshes cannot.. (—well they can, but only at a poor 0.5fps vs real-time or better fps)

Is this something to do with Quicksync? / Or is it the apple T2 chip or some other secret Mac hardware sauce?
 
scottkendall said:
So take 10 mins to do a memory map and the error goes away, and then you can likely drop WEG kext also. I do not know for sure but I have read stuff that says iMac Pro will throttle your GPU and CPU because it believes it is in an all in one case while Mac Pro will let stuff run at full bore.
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WEG is unnecessary, it just to fix boot apple logo, and I remember mac pro has same problem.
I think use Mac Pro or iMac pro is not much different, it just personal preference.
 
lx23 said:
WEG is unnecessary, it just to fix boot apple logo, and I remember mac pro has same problem.
I think use Mac Pro or iMac pro is not much different, it just personal preference.
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Here is a short list from the developer for what WEG does:

  • Fixes boot to black screen on AMD and NVIDIA
    [*]Fixes sleep wake to black screen on AMD
    [*]Fixes boot screen distortion in certain cases
    [*]Fixes transmitter/encoder in autodetected connectors for multimonitor support (-raddvi)
    [*]Fixes HD 7730/7750/7770/R7 250/R7 250X initialisation (radpg=15)
    [*]Allows tuning of aty_config, aty_properties, cail_properties via ACPI
    [*]Allows enforcing 24-bit mode on unsupported displays (-rad24)
    [*]Allows booting without video acceleration (-radvesa)
    [*]Allows automatically setting GPU model name or providing it manually for RadeonFramebuffer
    [*]Allows specifying custom connectors via device properties for RadeonFramebuffer
    [*]Allows tuning autodetected connector priority via device properties (HD 7xxx or newer)
    [*]Fixes an issue in AppleGraphicsDevicePolicy.kext so that we could use a MacPro6,1 board-id/model combination, without the usual hang with a black screen. Patching AppleGraphicsDevicePolicy.kext
    [*]Modifies macOS to recognize NVIDIA's web drivers as platform binaries. This resolves the issue with transparent windows without content, which appear for applications that use Metal and have Library Validation enabled. Common affected applications are iBooks and Little Snitch Network Monitor, though this patch is universal and fixes them all. NVWebDriverLibValFix
    [*]Injects IOVARendererID into GPU properties (required for Shiki-based solution for non-freezing Intel and/or any discrete GPU)
    [*]For Intel HD digital audio HDMI, DP, Digital DVI (Patches connector-type DP -> HDMI)
    [*]Fixes NVIDIA GPU interface stuttering on 10.13 (official and web drivers)
    [*]Fixes the kernel panic caused by an invalid link rate reported by DPCD on some laptops with Intel IGPU.
    [*]Fixes the infinite loop on establishing Intel HDMI connections with a higher pixel clock rate on Skylake, Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake platforms.
    [*]Implements the driver support for onboard LSPCON chips to enable DisplayPort to HDMI 2.0 output on some platforms with Intel IGPU.
    [*]Enforces complete modeset on non-built-in displays on Kaby Lake and newer to fix booting to black screen.
    [*]Allows non-supported cards to use HW video encoder (-radcodec)
    [*]Fixes choppy video playback on Intel Kaby Lake and newer.
    [*]Fixes black screen on Intel HD since 10.15.5.
    [*]Adds workaround for rare force wake timeout panics on Intel KBL and CFL.
    [*]Supports all valid Core Display Clock (CDCLK) freqencies on Intel ICL platforms.
    [*]Fixes the kernel panic caused by an incorrectly calculated amount of DVMT pre-allocated memory on Intel ICL platforms.
    [*]Makes brightness transitions smoother on Intel IVB+ platforms.
    [*]Fixes the short period garbled screen issue after the system boots on Intel ICL platforms.
    [*]Fixes the PWM backlight control of the built-in display that is directly wired to AMD Radeon RX 5000 series graphic cards
Probably some additional things but when running iMac Pro you need it for patching Applegraphicsdevicepolicy.kext that enables all the ports on your GPU so you can run dual monitors, if you run Mac Pro you do not need to patch Applegraphicsdevicepolicy.kext to get all ports on the GPU enabled. So I would say it does more then fixes the boot logo, not to mention my boot logo looks just fine without WEG. The power management for Mac Pro is likely a much closer match to your WX 7100 than what you would get from iMac Pro.
 
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Build 1 Titan Ridge TB3
Z370 AORUS Gaming 5 |  i9 9900K |  RX 6900 XT (16 GB)
@lx23 I tried Ventura with the same specs as you, and it boots just fine, just didn't had much time to test out more, but for the moment when running Avid's EUCON Drivers when searching for Ethernet controllers the OS fully locks and I need to hardware restart the system.
I guess this has to do with the drivers from AVIDs side not yet updated.

Are the 2 10G ports working fine for you with that SmallTree Kext ? because it hasn't been updated for a very long time.

Do you have working AirDrop? Because it's broken on my system, with the SmallTree Driver...
 
lx23 said:
F3j
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How is you system running? I'm still on F3b and frequently get the
Boot failure detected
Load optimized defaults then boot
Load optimized defaults then reboot
Enter BIOS
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which is kind of annoying. But otherwise it's working quite well.
 
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