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this is really off topic. But the problem with this forum is, Tonymacx has been spoiling us from the start. It was pretty much a fool proof method to install MacOS. Now with OpenCore, things aren't as easy. Don't get me wrong, I'm really grateful to the team, but just means we are not very...

I can sense you have a lot of negative energy in your system. It is clear that to my question of performance drop, you had no constructive answers. So continuing this meaningless discussion is just a total waste of time. Cheer up, there are good people around, and I hope you'll soon become...

The question was why performance drops when benchmarks remain unchanged. Your answer is, check your system. Please give constructive suggestions, comments like cry wolf, helps no one. If you don't know the answer, you can always keep quiet, nobody will think less of you. Besides I only...

well... is better than being unemployed. Hope this Covid clears soon. And hope everyone stays safe.

I find restarting helps to smooth out everything again, but run it for another few more hours, the lag returns. I couldn't risk crashing in the middle of doing something.

well, mini-ITX memory is a bit more expensive, coz limited to 2 sticks, and I can't use my old RAM sticks. This bill would be close to 300 USD. Especially during Covid period, finding jobs is not that easy =( My other friends with less RAM are also having some issues. I read ver 12.1 seem a...

No I inherited this computer. The original person wanted a smaller computer to travel with.

If it is running well on your System then good for you. But I also noticed the "Memory Used 16.58 GB". On Big Sur, I have the same apps opened, and only using 5.05GB. Guess it is hard for rich people to understand a poor person's situation :(

ok so there is a "Memory Leak" on Monterey. The article claims: 20GB of RAM to run Control Center, 80GB to run Firefox. For once I made the correct decision to downgrade. Oh and OC 0.7.5 came out, together with updated kexts for most things. There are newer versions of the BluetoolFixup, and...

Thanks! I was just reading on the Apple and Intel apps.

Just investigating the cause of the drop in performance. All my benchmarks were similar on both Big Sur and Monterey, and my system never crashed, just "sluggish" when using certain apps, especially the native Mac apps like: Preview and Finder etc. Sluggish is not the best description, is more...

I can see how much RAM is being used on Big Sur vs Monterey, and look at CPU usage too. But that will have to wait, til the next upgrade. Will continue on Big Sur for now.

Oh well, 16GB RAM was not enough for 12.0.1 to run smoothly with some workload

If you think about it, is not a completely crazy statement. I can always test out the system resource usage, on both Big Sur and Monterey. But that will have to wait til Monterey 12.1 is out. My Geekbench is about the same though.

Is all making sense now, Monterey on Intel is running on a virtual machine. That is why the OS will need a few CPU cores, and probably 8GB to run well. In this case, I guess my computer on Monterey can only run 3 applications at the same time well. Oh well, my Hackintosh days are soon over...

I suspect Monterey is re-written and tailored to M1 chip, and running some translation engine for Intel chips. Big Sur already felt strange, especially the mouse, it was like it was written for touch instead. Just hope Cycles in Blender gets metal support soon, otherwise, is back to Windows.

Could it be a RAM problem? I'm running 16GB, but still 1/2 hanging with more than 4 applications opened.

If you go to page 2: #13, I've attached the files there.

I find Monterey rather unable in general. My Bluetooth was quite unstable with BlueToolFixup 2.6.1, the BT keyboard will stop typing all at a sudden. And with 4 applications opened, the system was about the crash. On Big Sur even with 10 apps opened, everything ran smoothly. So I downgraded...

This may sound silly, but did you do a OC Clean Snapshot after adding the Kext in ProperTree, or put the kext in the right order in OC configurator. And you might need to reset the nvram.