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I wonder, maybe there should be two separate config threads for Catalina and earlier MacOS, and Big Sur?
It would be easier to understand topic better, earlier it was easier to mod.
I didn't read the OC threads for some months and now I'm lost and I'm not sure what guide should I follow :D
 
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djwoody249 said:
Installed the latest package on my 5,1 and works great in Mojave - no issues at all. Was thinking of upgrading to Big Sur, have a test install on a separate drive and Geekbench compute score for my AMD RX 580 has gone from 134309 to 78298 !!
Is this just crap software (Big Sur) or is there some tweaks I need to do for this version os OS X?
Thanks in advance
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Radeonboost has been disabled in 0.6.6.

Writing about crappy software you can only mean GeekBench. Have you tested any real software? Or is your one and only use case running Geekbench?
 
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djwoody249 said:
Installed the latest package on my 5,1 and works great in Mojave - no issues at all. Was thinking of upgrading to Big Sur, have a test install on a separate drive and Geekbench compute score for my AMD RX 580 has gone from 134309 to 78298 !!
Is this just crap software (Big Sur) or is there some tweaks I need to do for this version os OS X?
Thanks in advance
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Norbert Mikołajczyk said:
I wonder, maybe there should be two separate config threads for Catalina and earlier MacOS, and Big Sur?
It would be easier to understand topic better, earlier it was easier to mod.
I didn't read the OC threads for some months and now I'm lost and I'm not sure what guide should I follow :D
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My package is aim at providing HWAccel. All other functions are just bonus.

Therefore, unless I can't do that via a single package, I have no plan to provide multiple package / config for different OS users (I tried that before, it cause more confusion than benefit).
 
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h9826790 said:
My package is aim at providing HWAccel. All other functions are just bonus.

Therefore, unless I can't do that via a single package, I have no plan to provide multiple package / config for different OS users (I tried that before, it cause more confusion than benefit).
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Got it, thanks! the package for lazy people will work on both: Catalina and Big Sur, it's beautiful!
 
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I am one of the "lazy people" the package works well< thank you so much. I have HW acceleration on a 4,1 flashed to 5,1 mac pro running Catalina 10.15.5 (19F101)
I've just upgraded my internet and found that my ethernet card caps out at 100, even if I change the network settings manually to 1000 i cant get over 90mbps. Is this an issue I can solve in software or a hardware limitation?
Thanks again for all the work.
 
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I am one of the "lazy people" the package works well< thank you so much. I have HW acceleration on a 4,1 flashed to 5,1 mac pro running Catalina 10.15.5 (19F101)
I've just upgraded my internet and found that my ethernet card caps out at 100, even if I change the network settings manually to 1000 i cant get over 90mbps. Is this an issue I can solve in software or a hardware limitation?
Thanks again for all the work.
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90mbps or 90MB/s?

1000mbps network means 1000mbps, or ~100MB/s (in real world).

If you can get 90MB/s, that’s very good already. And shouldn’t be my package limiting the network speed.
 
Just came across this odd issue with the DVD drive. If i have a disc left in the drive and I boot into bootlicker, it'll click and click until an OS selection is made.

Is this normal behaviour? A bit annoying but i guess I'll have to remember to take the discs out before shutdown.

Also, i seem to have lost the boot chime. I've not changed anything other than update to 0.6.6 so I'm a little lost. Silly questions i know :)
 
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Just came across this odd issue with the DVD drive. If i have a disc left in the drive and I boot into bootlicker, it'll click and click until an OS selection is made.

Is this normal behaviour? A bit annoying but i guess I'll have to remember to take the discs out before shutdown.

Also, i seem to have lost the boot chime. I've not changed anything other than update to 0.6.6 so I'm a little lost. Silly questions i know :)
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You mean OpenCore will try to scan the DVD, and block the boot picker to show up?

Boot chime relates to the internal speaker volume setting. Check if that’s too low.
 
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You mean OpenCore will try to scan the DVD, and block the boot picker to show up?

Boot chime relates to the internal speaker volume setting. Check if that’s too low.
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With the disc in the drive i can still go into boot picker, but the drive itself will click repeatedly (similar noise to when the laser is being moved but repeatedly). It might just be my DVD drive being awkward, not tried a *bootable* disc to see if it stops doing it in boot picker as i don't actually have any bootable discs on hand.

Didn't realise the boot chime was related to volume setting in macos (today i learned....) . Thanks :)
 
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With the disc in the drive i can still go into boot picker, but the drive itself will click repeatedly (similar noise to when the laser is being moved but repeatedly). It might just be my DVD drive being awkward, not tried a *bootable* disc to see if it stops doing it in boot picker as i don't actually have any bootable discs on hand.

Didn't realise the boot chime was related to volume setting in macos (today i learned....) . Thanks :)
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I see. TBH, if the boot picker still works, then I won't be too worry about that noise from the optical drive. There are few reasons can make that happen. But if it only happen in that few seconds (I set 10s timeout in the boot picker), then I won't too worry about it.
 
Hi, @h9826790 I'm on Catalina and RVII. Today I replaced 0.6.4 (I followed the OC thread instructions and Hardware acceleration instruction from here with sudo and shikigva=96) with your package 0.6.6 but the drm is still not working. I wonder if I should do something more like 3xNVRAM reset or something? What I'm missing here? Also the pcie drives are still shown as external.
 
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Norbert Mikołajczyk said:
Hi, @h9826790 I'm on Catalina and RVII. Today I replaced 0.6.4 (I followed the OC thread instructions and Hardware acceleration instruction from here with soda and shikigva=96) with your package 0.6.6 but the drm is still not working. I wonder if I should do something more like 3xNVRAM reset or something? What I'm missing here? Also the pcie drives are still shown as external.
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What's your firmware version now?
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Please re-download the package from post #1314

And follow the "how to update" video in that post to update your OpenCore.

You aren't running my 0.6.6 package at this moment.

If that doesn't work, then I suggest you follow the 6 steps in that post to re-install OpenCore.
 
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I have been running h9826790's OpenCore package since last year and it is has been rock solid through all of the various Mac and Open Core updates. This weekend, I finally felt comfortable moving my Mac to Big Sur now that there is an Open Core 0.6.6 package that supports DRM. The whole process was fairly painless baring all the waiting while Big Sur installed after following the Open Core update procedure (per post #1314).

Results:
  1. DRM support works great, I'm having no issues with playback on Netflix.
  2. DisplayPort output worked fine with the stock config file, I did not need to change the hybridization to MacPro7,1.
    • For reference, I am running a Sapphire Pulse 580 8Gb
 
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Hi!

I got a simpel question. I used the "all in OC 0,66" in post #1314 and installed Catalina on one of my disks. I want to try BigSur, so I installed BigSur on another drive.

Q: Should I mount the EFI drive from the BigSur and install/overwrite the EFI folder to be able to extract the Catalina disk and only use the BigSure as a main system? (What happens if I pull out the Catalina drive?)

Info: BigSur started just fine. I can see the Apple TV content.

Best regards

/Doc
 
Thank you @h9826790. I followed your #1314 post and installed OpenCore 0.6.6 (and a fresh install of Big Sur) on my Mac Pro 5,1 yesterday. Both OpenCore and Big Sur are on a NVMe (brand and model below) and are working great. I've confirmed with VideoProc that I have HW GPU working.

I have a few of issues though. Anyone is free to chime in and help :p

Filevault not working
When I try to turn on FileVault on the Big Sur OS drive, I get an error that says 'FileVault failed: Incorrect Password'. Is this to be expected or is there a way to get this working?

Thunderbolt only works from warm boot
I have a flashed GC-Titan Ridge Thunderbolt card (with pin 3 to 5 jumped). I have CalDigit T3 dock which is connected to a LG 5K (daisy chained). I've enabled Thunderbolt (following the YouTube video example by changing the config value to 'true'). Both the T3 dock and the LG 5K now work, but it needs a warm restart before the OS can see them. Is this to be expected? Or is there a way to have it work from a cold boot?

I've had cold boot Thunderbolt working previously. About a year ago I had Catalina installed on this Mac Pro through a version of OpenCore by a github user named fancyXI – it was a version specifically for the Mac Pro 5,1 and the GC-Titan Ridge and it allowed Thunderbolt to work from a cold boot. Looks like his OpenCore repository is down though. It was an older version of OpenCore and the Brightness/USB/Webcam didn't work on the LG 5K (unlike version 0.6.6) but like I said, it did work from a cold boot. For the record, this install of Catalina (and the older version of OpenCore) were removed months ago and I reverted to a fresh install of Mojave).

Sleep not working when GC-Titan Ridge is installed
I think I read something about how sleep doesn't work if you have a USB 3 device connected via Thunderbolt. Is there a way around this or is this a dead end?

These are my specs…

Mac Pro 5,1
2x 3.33Ghz
128GB RAM
Big Sur and OpenCore on NVMe (PNY XLR8 CS3030 1TB)
MacVidCards Radeon RX 580 8GB
GC-Titan Ridge Thunderbolt Card (Flashed)
LG 5K Display

Once again, thank your for breathing new life into this old beast!
 
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markpaterson said:
Thank you @h9826790. I followed your #1314 post and installed OpenCore 0.6.6 (and a fresh install of Big Sur) on my Mac Pro 5,1 yesterday. Both OpenCore and Big Sur are on a NVMe (brand and model below) and are working great. I've confirmed with VideoProc that I have HW GPU working.

I have a few of issues though. Anyone is free to chime in and help :p

Filevault not working
When I try to turn on FileVault on the Big Sur OS drive, I get an error that says 'FileVault failed: Incorrect Password'. Is this to be expected or is there a way to get this working?

Thunderbolt only works from warm boot
I have a flashed GC-Titan Ridge Thunderbolt card (with pin 3 to 5 jumped). I have CalDigit T3 dock which is connected to a LG 5K (daisy chained). I've enabled Thunderbolt (following the YouTube video example by changing the config value to 'true'). Both the T3 dock and the LG 5K now work, but it needs a warm restart before the OS can see them. Is this to be expected? Or is there a way to have it work from a cold boot?

I've had cold boot Thunderbolt working previously. About a year ago I had Catalina installed on this Mac Pro through a version of OpenCore by a github user named fancyXI – it was a version specifically for the Mac Pro 5,1 and the GC-Titan Ridge and it allowed Thunderbolt to work from a cold boot. Looks like his OpenCore repository is down though. It was an older version of OpenCore and the Brightness/USB/Webcam didn't work on the LG 5K (unlike version 0.6.6) but like I said, it did work from a cold boot. For the record, this install of Catalina (and the older version of OpenCore) were removed months ago and I reverted to a fresh install of Mojave).

Sleep not working when GC-Titan Ridge is installed
I think I read something about how sleep doesn't work if you have a USB 3 device connected via Thunderbolt. Is there a way around this or is this a dead end?

These are my specs…

Mac Pro 5,1
2x 3.33Ghz
128GB RAM
Big Sur and OpenCore on NVMe (PNY XLR8 CS3030 1TB)
MacVidCards Radeon RX 580 8GB
GC-Titan Ridge Thunderbolt Card (Flashed)
LG 5K Display

Once again, thank your for breathing new life into this old beast!
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So my Titan ridge in Big Sur has zero issues using Opencore .6.7 or another versions. I use an Apple Thunderbolt Display has a few minor issues.. like only the screen working on first boot then restart enables other drivers Camera, speakers and display controls.

Sleep is an easy fix https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/testing-tb3-aic-with-mp-5-1.2143042/post-29583466
 
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So my Titan ridge in Big Sur has zero issues using Opencore .6.7 or another versions. I use an Apple Thunderbolt Display has a few minor issues.. like only the screen working on first boot then restart enables other drivers Camera, speakers and display controls.

Sleep is an easy fix https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/testing-tb3-aic-with-mp-5-1.2143042/post-29583466
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I've tested it a couple more times since your reply. Tried directly connecting the LG 5K to the Titan Ridge, and also into the T3 Dock. Same issue with both approaches. The LG 5K is just 'dead' from a cold boot unless I jump through a bunch of hoops.

Basically, the only way I can get the LG 5K to work from a cold boot is to boot with an additional external monitor attached. The LG 5K screen stays off even during login. Once I've logged in using the additional monitor, the LG 5K screen springs to life and I can now disconnect the additional monitor. The connection will survive warm reboots, but if I shutdown I will have to do this all over again EDIT – seems very flaky on whether it survives warm reboots, this all seems more trouble than it's worth at the minute.

I've even tried booting only with my LG 5K connected and timing the boot process so that I can type my password blind when the login window appears. It takes about 1 min for the boot menu to appear, and another 40 sec for the login window. This doesn't work. Actually with this method, if I then connect my additional monitor, that doesn't work either, which is odd.

I've also noticed that from a cold boot, the blue 'on' light of the T3 dock is off and stays off. I have to immediately power cycle it right after I switch the Mac Pro power on if I want to use Thunderbolt. The blue light survives a warm reboot.

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Re, the sleep issue. You say it's an easy fix but I'm unsure what exactly I need to. Several posts after the one you link to actually contradict it. Do I need to physically modify the Titan Ridge card by removing something from it? FWIW I do not have the USB header connected.

Thanks, I really appreciate your help.
 
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Only way to get sleep working is locating the correct resister in the post. He’s located on topside of the board by the slot pins, then break
him off. I used a tiny screw driver..

So yes pins 3 & 5 needs be jumped. Keeps the card function without anything plugged in.

Our you enabling the T-bolt3.aml?

The Apple display connects at boot sometimes , then some disconnects at the login. Just unplug the thunderbolt connector then plug it back in works for me.
 
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Seems I've lost HW video encoding even though VideoProc says H264 and HEVC HW support is detected and enabled. I've gone from 180-220 FPS to 50-55 FPS when converting a 1080p MKV to a 720p HEVC MP4. That number remains the same whether or not HW acceleration is enabled in VideoProc.
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Only thing that's changed since the last time I converted something was installing the supplemental update to SU2021-002.

OpenCore is running:
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Also confirmed via iStat that GPU isn't getting loaded at all. At least when HW encoding was working at ~200fps, I'd see a load of roughly 3% on the Vega 64.

Any suggestions on what to do / look for?

EDIT: I just remembered. Also updated VideoProc to v4.1 and OC to v0.6.6 about a week ago (which in turn updated LiLu and Weg).

EDIT #2: Sony Swordsmith video plays back with HEVC decoding active. I can see GPU getting loaded to about 3% and GPU fan kicks on. I'm wondering now if VideoProc 4.1 has a problem.

EDIT #3: Disregard. Ended up being the source material for some strange reason. Tried another MKV file that I created two weeks back and VideoProc 4.1 crunched that at roughly~225 FPS or so.
 
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