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star-affinity said:
Is Bluetooth not working for you in 0.7.3 (V2)?
Is your Bluetooth hardware not recognized? I haven't tried V2 of 0.7.3, but all releases after 0.7.0 disables my Bluetooth (a USB dongle) so I'm sticking with 0.7.0. Would be interesting to know the reason for why Bluetooth gets disabled post 0.7.0. 🤔
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Not working in Monterey. Both Bluetooth and Wifi are however working fine in Mojave, Catalina and Big Sur. Yes I am running 0.7.3 (v2)
 
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LFO8 said:
Not working in Monterey. Both Bluetooth and Wifi are however working fine in Mojave, Catalina and Big Sur. Yes I am running 0.7.3 (v2)
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Exactly, at least internal Bluetooth is not working for MacPro's 4,1->5,1 in Monterrey. It was working in Big Sur but not in the next macOS release until now. And I have read the notes for 0.7.4 and seems it's not been fixed ( or may never will be ). Hope somebody could take this seriously and solve it somehow.
 
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h9826790 said:
May I know if you installed OC onto the Mojave drive?

Do you have any other boot drive?

You can't get into safe mode, but can boot to recovery partition, correct?

Do you still have the original graphic card (or have any flashed graphic card)?
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So after a lot of trial and error i ended up just fresh booting Mohave. It turns out this was probably for ur best anyway. I then was able to upgrade to big surf with no problems.

That said, I am now having some other issues with my system I can’t quite explain. I edit in premiere pro and my system crashes (begins to stutter and then black screen and restarts) when I’m playing even just one 6k stream at more than like 1/8 resolution. I used to have this problem periodically but now it’s happening constantly. It also happens when I try to export. I’m using an RX580 and have 96gb ram from OWC. Any thoughts on why this is happening so frequently?? It never was this bad before. I used to be able to edit several 8k streams at like bb 1/4 resolution with some lag but never a freeze.
 
@h9826790 Thanks for your hard work on this Martin. Had a go installing Big Sur with the-then current version of the package last year, played around with it for a bit, then took everything off. Mojave (with the Lilu/WG kext mod, that video acceleration really makes a difference) then and now is my preference as daily OS. But last night, after much fiddling (BS install failed on one USB stick, twice) I have 11.6, with wi-fi & retina boot screen, running very nicely indeed. Leaving OC on a USB stick (so I can remove it and use the Apple boot picker to get to my legacy Windows install) but everything works very nicely indeed.
 
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h9826790 said:
I created a new "easy to install package" as per many requested (based on the official OpenCore). [The attached package already updated to 0.7.3 V2]

For those who only need HWAccel, post #594 has everything you need. This new package mainly offer HWAccel + boot screen. Also, this package should work in Catalina for dual processor cMP.

I don't mind you guys discuss anything about this package, but I have no plan to provide any explanation about OpenCore at here. If you want to know more, please join cdf's OpenCore thread. For new joiners, please make sure read through the FAQ in post #1 before you ask anything.

The attached packaged included Clover Configurator and a complete preconfigured OpenCore. All credits goes to the developer teams. If you want to show your support, please give them donation (declaration of interest： I am NOT in any of their developer teams)

For Clover Configurator and OpenCore developers teams, please let me know if you want me to remove the associated software inside my attachment in this post.

This is a "one package fit all" solution. So, it's designed to fit as much setup as possible, which may not be optimized for your setup (e.g. I haven't provide HiDPI boot screen, for those who are running 4K screen, the Apple logo may be quite small during boot). You have to do the optimization by yourself (details in the OpenCore manual, some info also available in cdf's OpenCore thread).

Anyway, for those who have RX 460 or newer AMD GPU, this package should gives you:
  1. Boot screen (via GOP for unflashed card, including some Nvidia card)
  2. Firmware protection (to run Windows in EFI mode without risking the cMP bootROM)
  3. HWAccel (H264 / HEVC hardware decode + encode in Mojave and newer macOS)
  4. ability to watch DRM streaming content (Mojave and newer macOS)
  5. Boot picker (only support EFI systems, tested with Apple wired keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Keyboard, 10s timeout. If you can't see this. Just don't touch the keyboard, and your cMP should continue to boot to desktop)
  6. NVMe and SATA drives on PCIe card show up as internal
  7. Support for Apple USB SuperDrive
  8. TRIM (regardless trimforce status)
  9. Ability to run non-GUI 32bit software in Catalina
  10. Ability to reset NVRAM in boot picker (disabled at this moment to align with the native Apple boot manager)
  11. Ability to run any natively supported ancient OSX with modern graphic card e.g. Radeon VII in 10.6.8 (only can display, no acceleration) [Update 5th May 2020: Sierra and High Sierra may not fully supported yet. Thanks for pierrox's report]
  12. Ability to boot Catalina / Big Sur / Monterey and the associated Recovery Partition [SurPlus (credit to Syncretic) is included and enabled by default to fix the racing condition in macOS 11.3 or later]
  13. Sleep should work (tested on my cMP, but I can't guarantee it also work with your hardware)
  14. Possible to run 8x32GB RAM in macOS (user need to mod the config.plist manually. Replace the false below CustomMemory to true)
  15. Enable HDMI Audio for some graphic cards (e.g. GTX680, disabled by default)
It's impossible for me to test every single function in all situations. So, as usual, use at your own risk. But you are welcome to report back if there is any problem / error.

Pre-installation:
  • Recommend to backup your BootROM between step 1 and 2 (e.g. by using ROMTool, credit to Dosdude, password "rom")
  • If you want to test OpenCore, you can install this package onto a bootable USB thumb drive.
  • Quite a few users reported that can't boot OpenCore from NVMe, analysis shows that depends on hard drives config. It's hard to explain which exact scenario may hit this bug. So, please avoid to install this package on NVMe. You can install this package on ANY SATA drive with virtually no performance lost, not necessary your boot drive.
  • If you want to remove OpenCore, please mount the EFI partition by using Clover Configurator, then remove BOOT and OC folders inside the EFI folder on EFI partition.
  • If your cMP stuck at boot. After shutdown, please pull out the hard drive that contain OpenCore, then perform NVRAM reset. If still doesn't work, then please install your emergency graphic card that has boot screen. Hold Option to boot, then select your backup boot drive. This should disable OpenCore.
  • For those who want to report issue / error. Please provide details (e.g. which graphic card, OpenCore installed on NVMe / SATA drive, the issue's details, etc) otherwise it will be extremely hard (or even impossible) for me to work out what's wrong.
  • If you installed Lilu for whatever reason (e.g. because of innie), or applied my previous non-OpenCore HWAccel mod, please remove them or revert them. For Lilu + WEG, that means delete Lilu.kext in /Library/Extensions/ and reboot (caution: these kexts may be installed in System/Library/Extensions/ as well). For hex edit method, that means delete AppleGVA.framework in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ and rename AppleGVA.framework.bak to AppleGVA.framework. Warning: My packages already have Lilu and WEG included, "double installation" of these kexts will cause macOS boot failure.
  • For PULSE RX580, users reported that only can see boot screen when boot from gaming mode. There may be no UEFI GOP in the compute mode's ROM.
Anyway, I tried to make the installation as simple as possible. Here is what you need to do
  1. [Optional] 3x NVRAM reset to avoid some unknown issues.
  2. Disable SIP (must do, especially if you performed step 1)
  3. Download the attachment in this post (Some users reported 0.6.1 package has compatibility issue. You may download the 0.5.9 package if you prefer that, same installation procedures. Besides, the 0.6.8 package may provide smoother boot picker than the 0.6.9 package.)
  4. Follow the steps in this video (please turn on and read the subtitle)
  5. For Big Sur only, if some ports on your graphic card are disabled, please follow the steps in this video to re-enable them.
  6. Reboot

For existing OpenCore users, you may follow the step in this video to update OpenCore [For those who installed OC onto the Windows drive, please make sure you only replace the OC files, but not the whole EFI folder]


Additional option 1: If you have 4K screen, and you want to have "Retina" boot screen. You may do this.

Additional option 2: If you have a flashed Thunderbolt 3 card, you can install that in slot 4, then enable Thunderbolt 3 support by doing this.

Additional option 3: If you want to enable the ability to install / update Catalina [Update: Thanks for cdf's finding. If you are with the 0.6.3 (and newer) package, and want to install Big Sur, your 5,1 should able to do that "natively". No need to touch the VMM flag etc]

Additional option 4: If you have legacy wifi card, you may try the follow steps to re-activate the old wifi card in Big Sur (only avail in my 0.6.4 package or above)

Additional option 5: Since 0.6.3, I allow OC to take over SIP control. There are various reasons, but anyway, that's defaulted to be disabled. If you want to re-enable SIP, please follow the steps in this video. (please turn on the English subtitle when you watch this video, some useful info at there)

Additional option 6: To enable HDMI Audio support (0.7.3 V2 or later), please mount the EFI partition, open the config.plist by a text editor, search HDMI Audio, and change the false below it to true.

For FCP(X) users, if you want to export HEVC video by using HWAccel, you will need Compressor.
[N.B. The setting MUST identical to the one that I show in the video. Otherwise, HEVC hardware encoding may not work]

If you want to completely uninstall my OpenCore package, please follow the steps in this video.

N.B. Unflashed graphic card means "the ROM is never modified". For those who bought used card, and can't see the boot screen, most likely the last user flashed the card with modified ROM (e.g. downvolt for mining). In this case, you can go to TechPowerUp to find a ROM that fit your own card, and flash it.

P.S. If you want to support my work, please donate via the following link. Million thanks in advance! https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/martinlo420

[Last update: 28 Sep 2021, OC 0.7.3, Lilu 1.5.6, WhateverGreen 1.5.3, SurPlus]
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Will this give me a boot screen with a radeon pro wx5100 ?
 
gherebean said:
So after a lot of trial and error i ended up just fresh booting Mohave. It turns out this was probably for ur best anyway. I then was able to upgrade to big surf with no problems.

That said, I am now having some other issues with my system I can’t quite explain. I edit in premiere pro and my system crashes (begins to stutter and then black screen and restarts) when I’m playing even just one 6k stream at more than like 1/8 resolution. I used to have this problem periodically but now it’s happening constantly. It also happens when I try to export. I’m using an RX580 and have 96gb ram from OWC. Any thoughts on why this is happening so frequently?? It never was this bad before. I used to be able to edit several 8k streams at like bb 1/4 resolution with some lag but never a freeze.
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Only PP has issue?

Can you try something similar in FCP, or DV (free version is good enough)?

It's better to check if this is a PP software issue.
 
Hi I have a mac pro 5.1, I work with Catalina and a Radeon r9 fury x. I can not get a start screen and also as soon as I open Chrome the entire mac crashes, I can only get out of it by long pressing the start key. Can someone help me?
 
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h9826790 said:
I created a new "easy to install package" as per many requested (based on the official OpenCore). [The attached package already updated to 0.7.3 V2]

For those who only need HWAccel, post #594 has everything you need. This new package mainly offer HWAccel + boot screen. Also, this package should work in Catalina for dual processor cMP.

I don't mind you guys discuss anything about this package, but I have no plan to provide any explanation about OpenCore at here. If you want to know more, please join cdf's OpenCore thread. For new joiners, please make sure read through the FAQ in post #1 before you ask anything.

The attached packaged included Clover Configurator and a complete preconfigured OpenCore. All credits goes to the developer teams. If you want to show your support, please give them donation (declaration of interest： I am NOT in any of their developer teams)

For Clover Configurator and OpenCore developers teams, please let me know if you want me to remove the associated software inside my attachment in this post.

This is a "one package fit all" solution. So, it's designed to fit as much setup as possible, which may not be optimized for your setup (e.g. I haven't provide HiDPI boot screen, for those who are running 4K screen, the Apple logo may be quite small during boot). You have to do the optimization by yourself (details in the OpenCore manual, some info also available in cdf's OpenCore thread).

Anyway, for those who have RX 460 or newer AMD GPU, this package should gives you:
  1. Boot screen (via GOP for unflashed card, including some Nvidia card)
  2. Firmware protection (to run Windows in EFI mode without risking the cMP bootROM)
  3. HWAccel (H264 / HEVC hardware decode + encode in Mojave and newer macOS)
  4. ability to watch DRM streaming content (Mojave and newer macOS)
  5. Boot picker (only support EFI systems, tested with Apple wired keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Keyboard, 10s timeout. If you can't see this. Just don't touch the keyboard, and your cMP should continue to boot to desktop)
  6. NVMe and SATA drives on PCIe card show up as internal
  7. Support for Apple USB SuperDrive
  8. TRIM (regardless trimforce status)
  9. Ability to run non-GUI 32bit software in Catalina
  10. Ability to reset NVRAM in boot picker (disabled at this moment to align with the native Apple boot manager)
  11. Ability to run any natively supported ancient OSX with modern graphic card e.g. Radeon VII in 10.6.8 (only can display, no acceleration) [Update 5th May 2020: Sierra and High Sierra may not fully supported yet. Thanks for pierrox's report]
  12. Ability to boot Catalina / Big Sur / Monterey and the associated Recovery Partition [SurPlus (credit to Syncretic) is included and enabled by default to fix the racing condition in macOS 11.3 or later]
  13. Sleep should work (tested on my cMP, but I can't guarantee it also work with your hardware)
  14. Possible to run 8x32GB RAM in macOS (user need to mod the config.plist manually. Replace the false below CustomMemory to true)
  15. Enable HDMI Audio for some graphic cards (e.g. GTX680, disabled by default)
It's impossible for me to test every single function in all situations. So, as usual, use at your own risk. But you are welcome to report back if there is any problem / error.

Pre-installation:
  • Recommend to backup your BootROM between step 1 and 2 (e.g. by using ROMTool, credit to Dosdude, password "rom")
  • If you want to test OpenCore, you can install this package onto a bootable USB thumb drive.
  • Quite a few users reported that can't boot OpenCore from NVMe, analysis shows that depends on hard drives config. It's hard to explain which exact scenario may hit this bug. So, please avoid to install this package on NVMe. You can install this package on ANY SATA drive with virtually no performance lost, not necessary your boot drive.
  • If you want to remove OpenCore, please mount the EFI partition by using Clover Configurator, then remove BOOT and OC folders inside the EFI folder on EFI partition.
  • If your cMP stuck at boot. After shutdown, please pull out the hard drive that contain OpenCore, then perform NVRAM reset. If still doesn't work, then please install your emergency graphic card that has boot screen. Hold Option to boot, then select your backup boot drive. This should disable OpenCore.
  • For those who want to report issue / error. Please provide details (e.g. which graphic card, OpenCore installed on NVMe / SATA drive, the issue's details, etc) otherwise it will be extremely hard (or even impossible) for me to work out what's wrong.
  • If you installed Lilu for whatever reason (e.g. because of innie), or applied my previous non-OpenCore HWAccel mod, please remove them or revert them. For Lilu + WEG, that means delete Lilu.kext in /Library/Extensions/ and reboot (caution: these kexts may be installed in System/Library/Extensions/ as well). For hex edit method, that means delete AppleGVA.framework in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ and rename AppleGVA.framework.bak to AppleGVA.framework. Warning: My packages already have Lilu and WEG included, "double installation" of these kexts will cause macOS boot failure.
  • For PULSE RX580, users reported that only can see boot screen when boot from gaming mode. There may be no UEFI GOP in the compute mode's ROM.
Anyway, I tried to make the installation as simple as possible. Here is what you need to do
  1. [Optional] 3x NVRAM reset to avoid some unknown issues.
  2. Disable SIP (must do, especially if you performed step 1)
  3. Download the attachment in this post (Some users reported 0.6.1 package has compatibility issue. You may download the 0.5.9 package if you prefer that, same installation procedures. Besides, the 0.6.8 package may provide smoother boot picker than the 0.6.9 package.)
  4. Follow the steps in this video (please turn on and read the subtitle)
  5. For Big Sur only, if some ports on your graphic card are disabled, please follow the steps in this video to re-enable them.
  6. Reboot

For existing OpenCore users, you may follow the step in this video to update OpenCore [For those who installed OC onto the Windows drive, please make sure you only replace the OC files, but not the whole EFI folder]


Additional option 1: If you have 4K screen, and you want to have "Retina" boot screen. You may do this.

Additional option 2: If you have a flashed Thunderbolt 3 card, you can install that in slot 4, then enable Thunderbolt 3 support by doing this.

Additional option 3: If you want to enable the ability to install / update Catalina [Update: Thanks for cdf's finding. If you are with the 0.6.3 (and newer) package, and want to install Big Sur, your 5,1 should able to do that "natively". No need to touch the VMM flag etc]

Additional option 4: If you have legacy wifi card, you may try the follow steps to re-activate the old wifi card in Big Sur (only avail in my 0.6.4 package or above)

Additional option 5: Since 0.6.3, I allow OC to take over SIP control. There are various reasons, but anyway, that's defaulted to be disabled. If you want to re-enable SIP, please follow the steps in this video. (please turn on the English subtitle when you watch this video, some useful info at there)

Additional option 6: To enable HDMI Audio support (0.7.3 V2 or later), please mount the EFI partition, open the config.plist by a text editor, search HDMI Audio, and change the false below it to true.

For FCP(X) users, if you want to export HEVC video by using HWAccel, you will need Compressor.
[N.B. The setting MUST identical to the one that I show in the video. Otherwise, HEVC hardware encoding may not work]

If you want to completely uninstall my OpenCore package, please follow the steps in this video.

N.B. Unflashed graphic card means "the ROM is never modified". For those who bought used card, and can't see the boot screen, most likely the last user flashed the card with modified ROM (e.g. downvolt for mining). In this case, you can go to TechPowerUp to find a ROM that fit your own card, and flash it.

P.S. If you want to support my work, please donate via the following link. Million thanks in advance! https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/martinlo420

[Last update: 28 Sep 2021, OC 0.7.3, Lilu 1.5.6, WhateverGreen 1.5.3, SurPlus]
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Just curious why the 0.7.4 package is labeled "Beta"? thx.
 
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Just curious why the 0.7.4 package is labeled "Beta"? thx.
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Because I cannot access my cMP right now. Therefore, after I finish a package, I upload it to post #1314, let other advance users to test it first. Then I wait for their reports, and only if the package is confirmed OK, then I will update the post.

That's why you the post #1314 itself still saying the package is update to 0.7.3 V2 only.

So, to alert people that the new package may be problematic. Therefore, I added "beta" in the name.

Anyway, I received few reports about the 0.7.4 package is working as expect. I am just waiting for one more confirmation that if a cMP can install Monterey beta 8 / 9 without turn on the VMM flag.

Once I confirm that, I will remove the word "beta", and update post #1314 accordingly.
 
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h9826790 said:
I created a new "easy to install package" as per many requested (based on the official OpenCore). [The attached package already updated to 0.7.4]

For those who only need HWAccel, post #594 has everything you need. This new package mainly offer HWAccel + boot screen. Also, this package should work in Catalina for dual processor cMP.

I don't mind you guys discuss anything about this package, but I have no plan to provide any explanation about OpenCore at here. If you want to know more, please join cdf's OpenCore thread. For new joiners, please make sure read through the FAQ in post #1 before you ask anything.

The attached packaged included Clover Configurator and a complete preconfigured OpenCore. All credits goes to the developer teams. If you want to show your support, please give them donation (declaration of interest： I am NOT in any of their developer teams)

For Clover Configurator and OpenCore developers teams, please let me know if you want me to remove the associated software inside my attachment in this post.

This is a "one package fit all" solution. So, it's designed to fit as much setup as possible, which may not be optimized for your setup (e.g. I haven't provide HiDPI boot screen, for those who are running 4K screen, the Apple logo may be quite small during boot). You have to do the optimization by yourself (details in the OpenCore manual, some info also available in cdf's OpenCore thread).

Anyway, for those who have RX 460 or newer AMD GPU, this package should gives you:
  1. Boot screen (via GOP for unflashed card, including some Nvidia card)
  2. Firmware protection (to run Windows in EFI mode without risking the cMP bootROM)
  3. HWAccel (H264 / HEVC hardware decode + encode in Mojave and newer macOS)
  4. ability to watch DRM streaming content (Mojave and newer macOS)
  5. Boot picker (only support EFI systems, tested with Apple wired keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Keyboard, 10s timeout. If you can't see this. Just don't touch the keyboard, and your cMP should continue to boot to desktop)
  6. NVMe and SATA drives on PCIe card show up as internal
  7. Support for Apple USB SuperDrive
  8. TRIM (regardless trimforce status)
  9. Ability to run non-GUI 32bit software in Catalina
  10. Ability to reset NVRAM in boot picker (disabled at this moment to align with the native Apple boot manager)
  11. Ability to run any natively supported ancient OSX with modern graphic card e.g. Radeon VII in 10.6.8 (only can display, no acceleration) [Update 5th May 2020: Sierra and High Sierra may not fully supported yet. Thanks for pierrox's report]
  12. Ability to boot Catalina / Big Sur / Monterey and the associated Recovery Partition [SurPlus (credit to Syncretic) is included and enabled by default to fix the racing condition in macOS 11.3 or later]
  13. Sleep should work (tested on my cMP, but I can't guarantee it also work with your hardware)
  14. Possible to run 8x32GB RAM in macOS (user need to mod the config.plist manually. Replace the false below CustomMemory to true)
  15. Enable HDMI Audio for some graphic cards (e.g. GTX680, disabled by default)
It's impossible for me to test every single function in all situations. So, as usual, use at your own risk. But you are welcome to report back if there is any problem / error.

Pre-installation:
  • Recommend to backup your BootROM between step 1 and 2 (e.g. by using ROMTool, credit to Dosdude, password "rom")
  • If you want to test OpenCore, you can install this package onto a bootable USB thumb drive.
  • Quite a few users reported that can't boot OpenCore from NVMe, analysis shows that depends on hard drives config. It's hard to explain which exact scenario may hit this bug. So, please avoid to install this package on NVMe. You can install this package on ANY SATA drive with virtually no performance lost, not necessary your boot drive.
  • If you want to remove OpenCore, please mount the EFI partition by using Clover Configurator, then remove BOOT and OC folders inside the EFI folder on EFI partition.
  • If your cMP stuck at boot. After shutdown, please pull out the hard drive that contain OpenCore, then perform NVRAM reset. If still doesn't work, then please install your emergency graphic card that has boot screen. Hold Option to boot, then select your backup boot drive. This should disable OpenCore.
  • For those who want to report issue / error. Please provide details (e.g. which graphic card, OpenCore installed on NVMe / SATA drive, the issue's details, etc) otherwise it will be extremely hard (or even impossible) for me to work out what's wrong.
  • If you installed Lilu for whatever reason (e.g. because of innie), or applied my previous non-OpenCore HWAccel mod, please remove them or revert them. For Lilu + WEG, that means delete Lilu.kext in /Library/Extensions/ and reboot (caution: these kexts may be installed in System/Library/Extensions/ as well). For hex edit method, that means delete AppleGVA.framework in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ and rename AppleGVA.framework.bak to AppleGVA.framework. Warning: My packages already have Lilu and WEG included, "double installation" of these kexts will cause macOS boot failure.
  • For PULSE RX580, users reported that only can see boot screen when boot from gaming mode. There may be no UEFI GOP in the compute mode's ROM.
Anyway, I tried to make the installation as simple as possible. Here is what you need to do
  1. [Optional] 3x NVRAM reset to avoid some unknown issues.
  2. Disable SIP (must do, especially if you performed step 1)
  3. Download the attachment in this post (Some users reported 0.6.1 package has compatibility issue. You may download the 0.5.9 package if you prefer that, same installation procedures)
  4. Follow the steps in this video (please turn on and read the subtitle)
  5. For Big Sur only, if some ports on your graphic card are disabled, please follow the steps in this video to re-enable them.
  6. Reboot

For existing OpenCore users, you may follow the step in this video to update OpenCore [For those who installed OC onto the Windows drive, please make sure you only replace the OC files, but not the whole EFI folder]


Additional option 1: If you have 4K screen, and you want to have "Retina" boot screen. You may do this.

Additional option 2: If you have a flashed Thunderbolt 3 card, you can install that in slot 4, then enable Thunderbolt 3 support by doing this.

Additional option 3: If you want to enable the ability to install / update Catalina, Big Sur and Monterey, please follow the steps in this video. [N.B. you should revert the changes after macOS installation completed. This special setting is not designed for daily use]

Additional option 4: If you have legacy wifi card, you may try the follow steps to re-activate the old wifi card in Big Sur (only avail in my 0.6.4 package or above)

Additional option 5: Since 0.6.3, I allow OC to take over SIP control. There are various reasons, but anyway, that's defaulted to be disabled. If you want to re-enable SIP, please follow the steps in this video. (please turn on the English subtitle when you watch this video, some useful info at there)

Additional option 6: To enable HDMI Audio support (0.7.3 V2 or later), please mount the EFI partition, open the config.plist by a text editor, search HDMI Audio, and change the false below it to true.

For FCP(X) users, if you want to export HEVC video by using HWAccel, you will need Compressor.
[N.B. The setting MUST identical to the one that I show in the video. Otherwise, HEVC hardware encoding may not work]

If you want to completely uninstall my OpenCore package, please follow the steps in this video.

N.B. Unflashed graphic card means "the ROM is never modified". For those who bought used card, and can't see the boot screen, most likely the last user flashed the card with modified ROM (e.g. downvolt for mining). In this case, you can go to TechPowerUp to find a ROM that fit your own card, and flash it.

P.S. If you want to support my work, please donate via the following link. Million thanks in advance! https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/martinlo420

[Last update: 8 Oct 2021, OC 0.7.4, Lilu 1.5.6, WhateverGreen 1.5.3, AppleALC 1.6.5, FeatureUnlock 1.0.3, SurPlus]
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Okay so i did get the bootscreen with a wx5100 but i have got a different issue now. when i select "MacSSD" in the boot selector, that where MacOS is installed, the screen goes black then goes straight back to the boot selector? any help ?
 
h9826790 said:
Because I cannot access my cMP right now. Therefore, after I finish a package, I upload it to post #1314, let other advance users to test it first. Then I wait for their reports, and only if the package is confirmed OK, then I will update the post.

That's why you the post #1314 itself still saying the package is update to 0.7.3 V2 only.

So, to alert people that the new package may be problematic. Therefore, I added "beta" in the name.

Anyway, I received few reports about the 0.7.4 package is working as expect. I am just waiting for one more confirmation that if a cMP can install Monterey beta 8 / 9 without turn on the VMM flag.

Once I confirm that, I will remove the word "beta", and update post #1314 accordingly.
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h9826790 said:
Because I cannot access my cMP right now. Therefore, after I finish a package, I upload it to post #1314, let other advance users to test it first. Then I wait for their reports, and only if the package is confirmed OK, then I will update the post.

That's why you the post #1314 itself still saying the package is update to 0.7.3 V2 only.

So, to alert people that the new package may be problematic. Therefore, I added "beta" in the name.

Anyway, I received few reports about the 0.7.4 package is working as expect. I am just waiting for one more confirmation that if a cMP can install Monterey beta 8 / 9 without turn on the VMM flag.

Once I confirm that, I will remove the word "beta", and update post #1314 accordingly.
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Will Wifi and Bluetooth be made to work running Monterey with your 0.7.4 version?
 
I have an upgraded WIFI/Bluetooth card in my 5,1. It is working with Martin's stock 0.7.4 package in macOS 11.6. Can I expect that to work in Monterey? thanks.
 

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h9826790 said:
Because I cannot access my cMP right now. Therefore, after I finish a package, I upload it to post #1314, let other advance users to test it first. Then I wait for their reports, and only if the package is confirmed OK, then I will update the post.

That's why you the post #1314 itself still saying the package is update to 0.7.3 V2 only.

So, to alert people that the new package may be problematic. Therefore, I added "beta" in the name.

Anyway, I received few reports about the 0.7.4 package is working as expect. I am just waiting for one more confirmation that if a cMP can install Monterey beta 8 / 9 without turn on the VMM flag.

Once I confirm that, I will remove the word "beta", and update post #1314 accordingly.
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I had to enable the VMM flag in order to update to Beta 9. If not, the system came back to Beta 8 and even had some scary black screens and random reboots until it was stabilize again in Beta 8. After turning on VMM flag I was able to update to beta 9 without further issues. Still waiting for a bluetooth solution as I'm using my old "mighty" ( what an inappropriate name ) mouse because I can't connect the current Magic Mouse. Hope it could be solved at least when final Monterrey version is out.
 
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offdwall said:
I have an upgraded WIFI/Bluetooth card in my 5,1. It is working with Martin's stock 0.7.4 package in macOS 11.6. Can I expect that to work in Monterey? thanks.
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Internal Bluetooth is not working with Monterrey Beta 9+OC 0.7.4 as it haven't been working in other previous betas. So I guess it's the same for the external. Waiting for a solution as many here.
 
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Internal Bluetooth is not working with Monterrey Beta 9+OC 0.7.4 as it haven't been working in other previous betas. So I guess it's the same for the external. Waiting for a solution as many here.
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So WIFI is working, just not BlueTooth?
 
Stu Forbes said:
Okay so i did get the bootscreen with a wx5100 but i have got a different issue now. when i select "MacSSD" in the boot selector, that where MacOS is installed, the screen goes black then goes straight back to the boot selector? any help ?
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0.7.4? or 0.7.3 V2?
 
abaxworld said:
I had to enable the VMM flag in order to update to Beta 9. If not, the system came back to Beta 8 and even had some scary black screens and random reboots until it was stabilize again in Beta 8. After turning on VMM flag I was able to update to beta 9 without further issues. Still waiting for a bluetooth solution as I'm using my old "mighty" ( what an inappropriate name ) mouse because I can't connect the current Magic Mouse. Hope it could be solved at least when final Monterrey version is out.
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Yeah, the test result by using RestrictEvents wasn't good. Therefore, that part is removed, this 0.7.4 package still need the old VMM tricks to install Monterey beta (as per the info in post #1314).
 
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I upgrade to OC 0.7.4 and everything went well except I am noticing that Clover Configurator (the version included in the package) seems to hang when unmounting the EFI partition. I get the spinning beachball and CG “not responding” in Activity monitor. Sometimes it unmounts after a minute or so, sometimes I have to force quit. I don’t remember this being the case in previous upgrades I did. The EFI is on a separate drive form the boot disk and has been the same one I have always used. Anyone else experience this?
 
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