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i3-4130 HD 4400 Graphics Almost Working

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Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-H87M-D3H
CPU
i3-4130
Graphics
HD 4400
Mac
  1. MacBook Pro
Mobile Phone
  1. Android
  2. iOS
I had no choice but to use i3-4130 which has HD 4400.
I did not had a replacement offer to get HD 4600.

System:
Gigabyte G-H87N-WIFI (Bios Updated to F8) (All BIOS settings at default)
CPU i3-4130 with HD4400 graphics (No vt-d to disable in bios as this cpu does not have it)
8 GB RAM
OSX 10.9.4
MultiBeast 6.4.2 (DSDT Free with Most defaults)
Connected over HDMI to Dell 21" Monitor

Read these 3 posts
http://www.tonymacx86.com/graphics/...lags-igpenabler-igplatformid-igpdeviceid.html
http://www.tonymacx86.com/graphics/123760-i3-4130-ga-h87n-wifi-hd4400-graphics-not-supported.html
http://www.tonymacx86.com/mavericks-desktop-support/126737-how-make-intel-hd-4400-work-2.html

Observations
Graphics VRAM Detected = 1536 MB
Chipset Model = Intel HD Graphics (Not Intel HD 4400)

Overall the desktop works very smooth and i notice hardly any flickering
in OS or Chrome or in any other apps. its very negligible but yes that does mean that HD4400
is still being not fully supported and you are not getting QE/ CI or full graphics accelaration.

For me performance is pretty much acceptable as i am getting
Geekbench scores of 6500 on Multicore and 2800 on Single core.

Only major issue i am facing is that the VLC player Does not show any video window and the players
video menu has all settings greyed.( i think its because of same issue)
Same MP4 video files it works PERFECTLY when i watch it in finder's quick look.
Also the same file plays in Quicktime player but the video is jittery.

I have tried many combinations of Bios settings and multibeast boot flags but nothing worked

Like below settings as per 1st link shared above

<key>IGPEnabler</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>IGPlatformID</key>
<string>0d220003</string>
<key>IGPDeviceID</key>
<string>0a26</string> ***also tried <string>0412</string>

I've seen Adrian B mentioning about they are working on the support for HD 4440.
Hoping for the same to come by ASAP.
 
Using i3-4150 here, also trying to make it work but I had my share of these failed attempts so far. Tried everything like you've done. Looks like QE for intel hd 4400 is still elusive as ever. :(
 
I have my hd 4400 graphics working for my i5-4500u. I will post my chameleon.org.boot.plist soon. I am using chameleon which has slightly different flags for graphics so you would have to use chameleon. As far as I know, only graphics have slightly different boot flags for IGPU for chameleon and chimera so all other flags can be untouched.
 
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