Full Acceleration for Intel HD 3000 and older NVIDIA Graphics in macOS Catalina

[examachine]

Change the cra.. GTX 580 for a GT 210

 

[peterhack]

Give it a try its a NEW Legacy Video Patch see the two new video

 

[FJDR-CL]

I do not sure install it on my Mac. Actually works fine, but in some circumstances appears glitches in part or all screen.

My Mac is a MacBook Pro 17 2011. Runing Catalina with the nasty damaged RADEON.

 

[peste]

Got my HD3000 working with Catalina with a little help from Chris1111
Thanks Chris1111.

 

[ngochoaic3]

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Verified for macOS Catalina 10.15.2, the Legacy Video patch package enables full acceleration for Intel HD 3000 and older NVIDIA Cards in macOS Catalina.

This is a Fix for Graphics Intel HD 3000 and fix Old NVIDIA Graphics for macOS Catalina 10.15
Support Graphics Intel HD 3000. Support: GeForce 5xx, 4xx, 2xx, 8600M(GT)/8800M(GT), 9400M/9600M(GT), 320M/330M
For macOS Catalina 10.15 Beta and Release

Releases · chris1111/Legacy-Video-patch

Fix Old Graphics card in macOS Catalina 10.15++. Contribute to chris1111/Legacy-Video-patch development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Warning: this package replaces system files and could render your system unbootable.

Please leave your experiences here in this thread!

EDIT: Latest Legacy Video patch-(xxxxx) pkg attached.

Does it work for the intel hd 2500 ?

 

[Bustycat]

Catalina experiment for P43 | Q8400 | HD 5770 build with OpenCore 0.6.4

It proved ‘working at almost 60%’:

• Full resolution
• No translucency on GUI
• Defective Dark Mode
• Occasionally slower animations

SIP has to be set to FF070000 or Catalina will not boot.

Edited: New screenshot for 19H114 and Dark Mode.

 

[KR0SSED0UT]

Just ran this on a 5,2 Mini (mid-2011, i7-2620M) and it didn't seem to quite do the trick - lots of hitching and video playback is pretty poor. I have the (obviously) dead/dying 6630M that I believe I've bypassed but it still shows up under 'About This Mac.' The only way I've found working acceleration is by running High Sierra.

If anyone has any ideas, how to get video acceleration with the HD3000 without using the 6630M, help would be much appreciated. I'm not super experienced with the MacOS ecosystem, but I got a hell of a deal on this thing and I'd like it to be usable.

 

[Bustycat]

Just ran this on a 5,2 Mini (mid-2011, i7-2620M) and it didn't seem to quite do the trick - lots of hitching and video playback is pretty poor. I have the (obviously) dead/dying 6630M that I believe I've bypassed but it still shows up under 'About This Mac.' The only way I've found working acceleration is by running High Sierra.

If anyone has any ideas, how to get video acceleration with the HD3000 without using the 6630M, help would be much appreciated. I'm not super experienced with the MacOS ecosystem, but I got a hell of a deal on this thing and I'd like it to be usable. View attachment 506128

This forum is not for legacy Macs. For your status, you should’ve tried dosdude1’s patcher. There is information related to your graphics problem on his website.

 

[Bustycat]

Although the patcher was never said to be compatible with Big Sur, I still tried it by myself on a test volume within the APFS container. Unfortunately, the volume would be bricked after applying the patcher. I also tried to extract kexts generated by the patcher on Catalina and then let OpenCore inject them, but booting Big Sur would stop at or near gIOScreenLock, indicating GPU-related issues.

 

[Bustycat]

Unfortunately updating to 19H524 resulted in more glitches and the system becomes more unstable. Restart and Shut Down are now broken.