<< Solved >> GPU not detected but drivers are installed

[Skarico]

Hello everyone,

This is my first post. Hope I'm in the right place. Before I start explaining my issues I would like to thank all of you for your many tutorials, answers but mostly for your time spent helping us newbies !

So, I had a 10.11 system running for more than 3 years now. For many reasons, I decided to update to 10.13. Followed the procedure to directly update from apple store's app. Had some trouble with apfs but now it boots perfectly well, running 10.13.6 (17G66).

The only issue remaining is my Geforce GTX 970 not being detected.

I tried many tutorials to make it work: nvram issues, changing bios settings, re-installing drivers, enabling/disabling SIP,

The weird thing for me, comparing to other similar threads is that my Nvidia web drivers are installed and work fine (in the menu bar "Nvidia web driver" is checked after reboot). But in my system status it says "Display 8 MB" and i have many glitches on my screen. I'm not able to set dual display too, but I guess that's normal.

You'll find attached screenshots of my actual configuration.

Any help appreciated, thanks a lot !

 

[UtterDisbelief]

Hello everyone,

This is my first post. Hope I'm in the right place. Before I start explaining my issues I would like to thank all of you for your many tutorials, answers but mostly for your time spent helping us newbies !

So, I had a 10.11 system running for more than 3 years now. For many reasons, I decided to update to 10.13. Followed the procedure to directly update from apple store's app. Had some trouble with apfs but now it boots perfectly well, running 10.13.6 (17G66).

The only issue remaining is my Geforce GTX 970 not being detected.

I tried many tutorials to make it work: nvram issues, changing bios settings, re-installing drivers, enabling/disabling SIP,

The weird thing for me, comparing to other similar threads is that my Nvidia web drivers are installed and work fine (in the menu bar "Nvidia web driver" is checked after reboot). But in my system status it says "Display 8 MB" and i have many glitches on my screen. I'm not able to set dual display too, but I guess that's normal.

You'll find attached screenshots of my actual configuration.

Any help appreciated, thanks a lot !

Hi there,

I think your problem stems from the version of macOS you are running - 17G66. There were no generally available drivers for this build.

I recommend updating macOS with the Security Updates 2020-00? to get you to 17G12034 if you wish to use the Nvidia driver *135.

If for some reason you do not wish to upgrade macOS then cboose from the drivers here, which clearly shows what is available for what version macOS:

NVIDIA Drivers

www.tonymacx86.com

17G66 was skipped.

Also double-check you installed NVRAM emulation.

If anyone else knows better, please chip-in

 

[Skarico]

Hi,

Works fine with the 2020-002 System Update found in the App Store ! Updated to 17G12034 just like you said.

It seemed to work for others with an 17G66 version (https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...-id-17g66-brand-new-high-sierra-build.269228/) so I thought that wasn't the problem.

Thanks a lot for your help ! Now changing this thread's title to "Solved"