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- Jun 3, 2023
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte B460M D3H
- CPU
- i7-10700
- Graphics
- RX 550 + UHD 630
I have set up a desktop system running latest Ventura with the latest version of OpenCore, using the iMac20,1 SMBIOS. I have an Intel i7 10700 with UHD 630 and additionally an AMD Radeon RX 550 Lexa PRO 4GB. The system seems to run properly, however I couldn't get any working hardware DRM.
FairPlay 1.x with the iTunes movie, only sound is working, video is completely black (it's the same behaviour as with iGPU-only).
Fairplay 2.x/3.x works only in non-Safari browsers, so Netflix or Prime are broken in Safari.
I could not test FairPlay 4.x since AppleTV is not available in my country, but most probably it won't work anyway.
DRM through AirPlay is also broken, it results either in a black screen with a loading loop or a straight up error, depending on the service used.
Relevant parts of my current config.plist, please let me know if anything else should be attached:
DeviceProperties:
- PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0) with "AAPL,ig-platform-id" set to "0300C59B" (this is what I understood to use to set iGPU in headless mode)
- PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0) with "device-id" set to "FF67" and "model" set to "AMD RX 550" (since I saw that this GPU is not supported out of the box I straight up spoofed the device id so it uses the Baffin drivers for RX 560)
Boot args:
- keepsyms=1 debug=0x100 alcid=1 igfxonln=1 igfxfw=2 igfxrpsc=1 igfxmetal=1 (here I think some cleanup might be done, they were left like this from the time I had only the iGPU to operate, probably igfxonln should be removed and igfxmetal might be unnecessary, the others iGPU related might still be useful?)
I tried to play a bit with "unfairgva" but all I managed to do was to break currently working features, such as the VDA Decoder, Sidecar, also FairPlay 1.x would fail to the point where I could not play it at all, the play button would be grayed out.
I was thinking maybe the dGPU is the problem but it shows up with 4GB, the UI has transparency and is smooth, also Hackintool and VDADecoderChecker indicate that hardware acceleration and Metal are working properly. I think, however, that benchmarking scores could be better, I read something about a "RadeonBoost" kext but I am not sure where I could find its latest version and I also read that it might be deprecated, so not sure if I should include it either.
Aside from an AMD dGPU, I also read that another version of SMBIOS might be necessary, such as MacPro or iMacPro and they impose disabling the iGPU completely for working DRM? If that is the case, I would value more to have working SideCar than DRM, since I understand SideCar without iGPU might not work at all or be unreliable. If that's not correct and I don't lose any feature or performance and also get working DRM, which SMBIOS version would be more appropriate for my build, if any?
The main question: is there anything else to try to improve the DRM and dGPU performance further and what options do I have? Can I get any of the non-working DRM features listed above using the current version of SMBIOS?
Thank you in advance.
FairPlay 1.x with the iTunes movie, only sound is working, video is completely black (it's the same behaviour as with iGPU-only).
Fairplay 2.x/3.x works only in non-Safari browsers, so Netflix or Prime are broken in Safari.
I could not test FairPlay 4.x since AppleTV is not available in my country, but most probably it won't work anyway.
DRM through AirPlay is also broken, it results either in a black screen with a loading loop or a straight up error, depending on the service used.
Relevant parts of my current config.plist, please let me know if anything else should be attached:
DeviceProperties:
- PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0) with "AAPL,ig-platform-id" set to "0300C59B" (this is what I understood to use to set iGPU in headless mode)
- PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0) with "device-id" set to "FF67" and "model" set to "AMD RX 550" (since I saw that this GPU is not supported out of the box I straight up spoofed the device id so it uses the Baffin drivers for RX 560)
Boot args:
- keepsyms=1 debug=0x100 alcid=1 igfxonln=1 igfxfw=2 igfxrpsc=1 igfxmetal=1 (here I think some cleanup might be done, they were left like this from the time I had only the iGPU to operate, probably igfxonln should be removed and igfxmetal might be unnecessary, the others iGPU related might still be useful?)
I tried to play a bit with "unfairgva" but all I managed to do was to break currently working features, such as the VDA Decoder, Sidecar, also FairPlay 1.x would fail to the point where I could not play it at all, the play button would be grayed out.
I was thinking maybe the dGPU is the problem but it shows up with 4GB, the UI has transparency and is smooth, also Hackintool and VDADecoderChecker indicate that hardware acceleration and Metal are working properly. I think, however, that benchmarking scores could be better, I read something about a "RadeonBoost" kext but I am not sure where I could find its latest version and I also read that it might be deprecated, so not sure if I should include it either.
Aside from an AMD dGPU, I also read that another version of SMBIOS might be necessary, such as MacPro or iMacPro and they impose disabling the iGPU completely for working DRM? If that is the case, I would value more to have working SideCar than DRM, since I understand SideCar without iGPU might not work at all or be unreliable. If that's not correct and I don't lose any feature or performance and also get working DRM, which SMBIOS version would be more appropriate for my build, if any?
The main question: is there anything else to try to improve the DRM and dGPU performance further and what options do I have? Can I get any of the non-working DRM features listed above using the current version of SMBIOS?
Thank you in advance.