- Joined
- Jan 14, 2012
- Messages
- 55
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z68X
- CPU
- i7-2600K
- Graphics
- Vega 64
- Mac
This is a fun one. I’ve poked at it for 9 hours today and I’m at my wit’s end. Previously I was on 10.13.6 with an Nvidia Windforce 1060. Ever since I moved to 10.13 from 10.12, I was getting random freezing, which I heard was NOT an issue with 10.14. But since I was using an Nvidia card, I needed to change that before updating to 10.14.
I got a Radeon Sapphire RX Vega64 8GB card after hearing that it worked OOB on 10.14 with no issues. Since I’m here right now, you know that didn’t happen.
When I first plugged it in, I got a tiny, tiny box at full resolution that was just a slice of my desktop. I could see the top left corner, centered in the screen, and that was it. My first intuition was to remove anything Nvidia specific via Clover Configurator, so I removed the card and went through an iGPU boot to do that. No dice.
After that I tried an OS update next, because what I heard was the card working on 10.14. It shouldn’t have made a difference, but just in case I gave it a shot. Nothing - Same small box, actually, but now the box is solid black and all I see is my mouse cursor. I tried updating to 10.14.6 and nothing changed.
I tried checking RadeonDeInit and that didn’t change anything. I tried installing the Whatevergreen and Lilu kexts. I tried changing my SMBIOS profile to 6,1 and to 18,4 and neither made any difference whatsoever.
I have no idea what to try next. Everything looks perfect on boot up but once it logs I and gets past the Apple icon loading bar screen, all I have is a black rectangle and a mouse cursor. At least it doesn’t freeze anymore.
It is worth nothing that I can reliably boot up in iGPU by removing the card entirely and plugging my Apple Cinema Display into the MOBO DVI port, so I can still change things in Clover Configurator. I can also still access the BIOS and Clover screens on boot. The OS install is fine and stable, it just doesn’t want to play nice with my graphics card.
I got a Radeon Sapphire RX Vega64 8GB card after hearing that it worked OOB on 10.14 with no issues. Since I’m here right now, you know that didn’t happen.
When I first plugged it in, I got a tiny, tiny box at full resolution that was just a slice of my desktop. I could see the top left corner, centered in the screen, and that was it. My first intuition was to remove anything Nvidia specific via Clover Configurator, so I removed the card and went through an iGPU boot to do that. No dice.
After that I tried an OS update next, because what I heard was the card working on 10.14. It shouldn’t have made a difference, but just in case I gave it a shot. Nothing - Same small box, actually, but now the box is solid black and all I see is my mouse cursor. I tried updating to 10.14.6 and nothing changed.
I tried checking RadeonDeInit and that didn’t change anything. I tried installing the Whatevergreen and Lilu kexts. I tried changing my SMBIOS profile to 6,1 and to 18,4 and neither made any difference whatsoever.
I have no idea what to try next. Everything looks perfect on boot up but once it logs I and gets past the Apple icon loading bar screen, all I have is a black rectangle and a mouse cursor. At least it doesn’t freeze anymore.
It is worth nothing that I can reliably boot up in iGPU by removing the card entirely and plugging my Apple Cinema Display into the MOBO DVI port, so I can still change things in Clover Configurator. I can also still access the BIOS and Clover screens on boot. The OS install is fine and stable, it just doesn’t want to play nice with my graphics card.
