[Guide] Intel Framebuffer patching using WhateverGreen

[jaymonkey]

ok, i've decided to disassemble case and remove GTX and that was it. Now IGPU HD 4600 works fine with HackinTool patch for 0x0DD20003.

@gulios,

It does not look like Nvidia are going to release updated WebDrivers for Mojave anytime soon, best thing you can do is sell it and buy a second hand Vega 64 ... which is which is what i did ... managed to pick up a Sapphire Vega 64 Liquid Cooled (AIO) on ebay for a very good price ... one of the best moves i ever made on my main hackingtosh system.

Works flawlessly, MacOS UI is much smoother (no stutters when scrolling .. etc) and super fast renders in FCPX.

Cheers
Jay

 

[gulios]

@gulios,

It does not look like Nvidia are going to release updated WebDrivers for Mojave anytime soon, best thing you can do is sell it and buy a second hand Vega 64 ... which is which is what i did ... managed to pick up a Sapphire Vega 64 Liquid Cooled (AIO) on ebay for a very good price ... one of the best moves i ever made on my main hackingtosh system.

Works flawlessly, MacOS UI is much smoother (no stutters when scrolling .. etc) and super fast renders in FCPX.

Cheers
Jay

yeah i know but... it's 1080TI ;( killer in games. For now i think i'll work on IGPU only (I've changed fans position so no GTX is disconnected) or i sell GTX and case and put all into smaller case without GPU...

or... maybe it's time to change Nvidia to AMD.

Does Sapphire Vega 64 works OOB?
Does "Asus Radeon RX Vega 64 ROG STRIX O8G Gaming, 8192 MB HBM2" will work OOB ?

 

[nicksoph]

Im following trs96's guide for a Dell 7020 and troubleshooting one of the issues - the on board Intel 4600 graphics. The image is fine when it works but in my dual monitor setup one of the monitors has to be turned off before starting the machine or neither monitor will display anything. I have looked at the Hackintool but dont really understand how to convert the info it shows into actions that I should do and wonder if someone can point me to an overview for noobs. 7020 Guide here.
Edit: seems this a known issue with iMac sys Def's which use a variation of the dispalyport standard for in built screens. Any ideas about how or if this is worth pursuing appreciated. There is a simplerfix to use an dedicated graphics card.
Edit 2: Used 14,3 sys defs and it worked.

 

[jaymonkey]

Does Sapphire Vega 64 works OOB?
Does "Asus Radeon RX Vega 64 ROG STRIX O8G Gaming, 8192 MB HBM2" will work OOB ?

@gulios,

When using a Vega GPU it's advisable to install Lilu + WhatEverGreen which applies a few patches and ensures that the correct frame buffer is configured (usually "Kamarang")

Most Sapphire cards are based on the AMD reference designs as such they tend to be more compatible with MacOS which is why i favour them .... I have no experience of the Asus so cant really comment, however the 10.14.5 update resolved a lot of thermal issues (mainly fan control) with OEM Vega cards so it will most likely be ok but i would recommend you search the forums and find someone with a success story of using the "Asus Radeon RX Vega 64 ROG STRIX O8G Gaming" card before committing to one.

For more info on AMD GPU's on MacOS see the Compatibility Guide :-

Radeon Compatibility Guide - ATI/AMD Graphics Cards

Radeon Compatibility Guide ATI/AMD Graphics Cards Last Change: December 2nd, 2017 The "boot to black screen" issue as well as the broken sleep/wake have been fixed! Read below for details. 0. Introduction Most of you might have noticed that the Buyer's Guide doesn't list a single...

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However it might be worth holding fire for a month or so, AMD have recently released details of the new Navi cards (Radeon RX 5700 series) which go on sale July 7th ... and early support for them has already been seen in Apples AMD drivers for MacOS.

I don't think they are going to be as powerful as Radeon VII but they use a new architecture (RDNA) that may be better optimised on MacOS.

I would wait and see how they benchmark against Vega 64 before making a decision, also when they hit the market its likely that Vega Gen 1 cards will probably get cheeper.

Cheers
Jay

 

[gulios]

@gulios,

When using a Vega GPU it's advisable to install Lilu + WhatEverGreen which applies a few patches and ensures that the correct frame buffer is configured (usually "Kamarang")

Most Sapphire cards are based on the AMD reference designs as such they tend to be more compatible with MacOS which is why i favour them .... I have no experience of the Asus so cant really comment, however the 10.14.5 update resolved a lot of thermal issues (mainly fan control) with OEM Vega cards so it will most likely be ok but i would recommend you search the forums and find someone with a success story of using the "Asus Radeon RX Vega 64 ROG STRIX O8G Gaming" card before committing to one.

For more info on AMD GPU's on MacOS see the Compatibility Guide :-

Radeon Compatibility Guide - ATI/AMD Graphics Cards

Radeon Compatibility Guide ATI/AMD Graphics Cards Last Change: December 2nd, 2017 The "boot to black screen" issue as well as the broken sleep/wake have been fixed! Read below for details. 0. Introduction Most of you might have noticed that the Buyer's Guide doesn't list a single...

www.tonymacx86.com

However it might be worth holding fire for a month or so, AMD have recently released details of the new Navi cards (Radeon RX 5700 series) which go on sale July 7th ... and early support for them has already been seen in Apples AMD drivers for MacOS.

I don't think they are going to be as powerful as Radeon VII but they use a new architecture (RDNA) that may be better optimised on MacOS.

I would wait and see how they benchmark against Vega 64 before making a decision, also when they hit the market its likely that Vega Gen 1 cards will probably get cheeper.

Cheers
Jay

Thank you @jaymonkey

I've decided to finish that battle with GPUs and back to "games only on console" work on PC so i'm trying to sell all parts i needed before because of WIN and stick just to motherboard+CPU and now i'm on Streacom ST-FC8B Alpha case + motherboard + cpu and problem disappeared. HD 4600 on i7 4790K works great and stable on latest macOs.

Thank you!

 

[Heporis]

There's two data of framebuffer, so what's the different and which one should I select. I have a kabylake HD630 desktop with a HDMI and a DP connectors. Now I use the HDMI connector. When I use whatevergreen without any Arbitrary and select smbios 18.2/18.3, I get some skialith when minimizing a window. However, after I change smbios to 18.1, it was solved. The only different is that whatevergreen set 9MB framebuffer to 18.2/18.3 and 0 to 18.1. Confused.
Now I use smbios 18.1, but there are three DP connectors in Hackintool though I have a DP and a HDMI which is used. So should I ban two DP and change DP used to HDMI? Thank you!

 

[djul93]

Hello All,
i'm using a tiny lenovo m900 with an intel HD530 as graphic card with 3 DP connectors. I'm using an smbios imac 16.1 as 17.1 never worked with more than one screen. Since the upgrade to 10.4.5 i've got a weird issue.
Only 2 screens are working. The last one is visible on Hackintool (or using ioreg) but it doesn't appear on display prefpanes.
Here come a screenshot a an extract of the config.plist for display :
Any idea about this kind of behavior?

<key>PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0)</key>
<dict>
<key>AAPL,ig-platform-id</key>
<data>
AAASGQ==
</data>
<key>AAPL,slot-name</key>
<string>Internal</string>
<key>device-id</key>
<data>
EhkAAA==
</data>
<key>device_type</key>
<string>VGA compatible controller</string>
<key>framebuffer-patch-enable</key>
<data>
AQAAAA==
</data>
<key>framebuffer-pipecount</key>
<data>
BAAAAA==
</data>
<key>framebuffer-portcount</key>
<data>
BAAAAA==
</data>
<key>model</key>
<string>HD Graphics 530</string>
</dict>

 

[onx]

Good day guys! Need your wise advise with connecting second monitor to my Hackintosh.

I used only one display before with HDMI connection without any problems. When I connect another one to DisplayPort the second screen just working until MacOS loading screen and then loosing signal. I tried to load only with one screen connected to DP and there is the same situation: it's turning off on loading step. Also tried hot plug in in different combinations with no luck.

I used WEG and this topic to patch config with spoof device id. May be I missed something?



Current setup:

• CPU Intel i7-6700K Skylake (iGPU HD530)
• MoBo GA-Z170X-Gaming 5 (has HDMI and DisplayPort)
• MacOS Mojave 10.14.5

 

[jaymonkey]

I used only one display before with HDMI connection without any problems. When I connect another one to DisplayPort the second screen just working until MacOS loading screen and then loosing signal. I tried to load only with one screen connected to DP and there is the same situation: it's turning off on loading step. Also tried hot plug in in different combinations with no luck.

I used WEG and this topic to patch config with spoof device id. May be I missed something?

@onx,

As the Lilu + Plugin's guide you used states :-

For most users the Device Properties generated by Hackintool should be enough for WhatEverGreen to correctly configure your IGPU, however on some systems it may be necessary to further modify the framebuffer defaults in oder to get all of the IGPU ports/connectors working correctly. For example you may need change a IGPU port connector from DVI to Display Port or Display Port to HDMI, you can use Hackintool to modify these more advanced settings and then generate updated patch code to add as additional Device Properties to your config.plist.

I wont cover these more advanced settings in this guide as they are already covered in CaseySJ's excellent guide which covers the topic in more detail:-

[GUIDE] General Framebuffer Patching Guide (HDMI Black Screen Problem)

General Framebuffer Patching Guide using Hackintool Please do not quote this guide in its entirety. Post a link instead. 15 Jan 2019: Intel FB-Patcher has been renamed to Hackintool. 19 Jan 2019: Guide overhauled. Please be aware of possible HDMI hot-plug issues. After boot you may have to...

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Cheers
Jay

 

[bboczeng]

Good afternoon:

I am also having a build with HD530 (Skylake CPU, i6700K). With a successful installation of Mojave, I had not been able to use Hackintool to detect the GPU , although the GPU is shown as correct HD530 in Mac OS info, with 31Mb Vram. (I set correctly in BIOS to let HD530 GPU as first GPU device). The display is connected via DP.

The device ID has been set to 0x1234, (which is the clover setting 0x12345678 preset by the bootable USB) .
This device ID is certainly wrong; So I used the correct device id + platform id for HD530: 19128086 and 19120000.

Once i set the device id and reboot, I got blackscreen + restarts after apple logo. Seems the system only understands 0x1234 somehow.

What should I do to debug? Since I can't even get hackintool to work property to recognize my GPU (recognized as ???)

related info are attached. Help is appreciated!