GIGABYTE GTX670 on Catalina

[racshaser]

Hello, friends!
First of all, I want to Express my gratitude for all your guides and instructions. These instructions helped me a lot.

I updated my Hackintosh (Mojave 10.14.4) directly to Catalina Yesterday. Everything works fine except the graphics. In some moments, transparency does not work, sometimes there are lags.
I know that NVIDIA GTX 670 should be supported officially, however I have bugs. (See Volume screenshot. There is have not background beside volume level)
I will be very grateful for help with setting up my system for native support of my video card.

P.S. Sorry for bad English, I'm from Russia =)

 

[racshaser]

LOL

 

[Jamesbond007]

Hello, friends!
First of all, I want to Express my gratitude for all your guides and instructions. These instructions helped me a lot.

I updated my Hackintosh (Mojave 10.14.4) directly to Catalina Yesterday. Everything works fine except the graphics. In some moments, transparency does not work, sometimes there are lags.
I know that NVIDIA GTX 670 should be supported officially, however I have bugs. (See Volume screenshot. There is have not background beside volume level)
I will be very grateful for help with setting up my system for native support of my video card.

P.S. Sorry for bad English, I'm from Russia =)

The Kepler 6 series graphics cards, including your GTX 670, is known to have graphics glitches problems starting from High Sierra. There is no way to fix the problem as far as I know, other than replacing the graphics card with a more recent supported one such as a RX 560.

 

[racshaser]

The Kepler 6 series graphics cards, including your GTX 670, is known to have graphics glitches problems starting from High Sierra. There is no way to fix the problem as far as I know, other than replacing the graphics card with a more recent supported one such as a RX 560.

Hm. Sounds bad. On Sierra (10.12) and Mojave (10.14) all works perfectly. Only on Catalina I've got this bugs.
What do you say about Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64 GAMING OC. Is it good for Hackintosh?
Thanks for answer!

 

[Jamesbond007]

Hm. Sounds bad. On Sierra (10.12) and Mojave (10.14) all works perfectly. Only on Catalina I've got this bugs.
What do you say about Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64 GAMING OC. Is it good for Hackintosh?
Thanks for answer!

The Vega 64 should be natively supported under MacOS Mojave and Catalina. Should be good.

 

[racshaser]

UPDATE 2020
GTX670 Works under Catalina 10.15.4. The glitches disappears! All works just fine!
No special settings/kexts/config needed

 

[steelbell1985]

UPDATE 2020
GTX670 Works under Catalina 10.15.4. The glitches disappears! All works just fine!
No special settings/kexts/config needed

Are any boot args needed for initial install?

 

[sublightnova]

I just dusted off and rebuild my old Z77x-ud5 (firmware14) and installed my also old eVGA GTX 670 FTW... Installed with the latest clover build (not unibeast) and installed and runs without a problem so far.. Disabled internal graphics. I have to do all the post install configs but GTX 670 is recognized properly. 10.15.7 version of Catalina. Also got High Sierra running flawelessly on my even older Asus G73JH notebook but even for hardware this old it runs so much smoother than with windoze on it.

I might try something adventerous as to eventuall get my new Ryzen 5-3600 running with a GTX 1060 but that seems to be very tricky indeed.. Just in case anyone has done that.. let me know please!

I haven't seen rehabman builds or anything in a couple of years I've noticed but I just wanted to thank him again for helping me years ago with the backlight issues and such on the G73JH.. His guide also helped me to get High Sierra on this notebook although the Backlighting is still giving me some issues.

Btw.. I got screen brightness/contrast/volume of my DELL SD3220DFG monitor working by installing:

Release MonitorControl v2.1.0 · MonitorControl/MonitorControl

What's new Added open sound/brightness preferences from media keys using option + volume/brightness key. (Thanks to @paphonb) (#168) Added None option to keys to listen for preference. This will a...

github.com

I did cleanup my DTST before that so other people's result may vary. But it puts a nice icon in the top bar and uses the true contrast/brigtness settings for the monitor as they also change on the monitor's OSD. So not just a grey layer to simulate brightness levels.

After 2 days I'm loving this buid. AMF being a Windows user forever I'll probably change over all my activities except gaming over to this rig.

Next I might even throw my GTX 1060 from my windows gaming rig into this one and see if I can get this working ahead of a possible future upgrade to a 30xx card.