Using 60 should give you 1.5 GB, Odd thing is, I have a Mac Mini and it already is set to use 1.5 GB by default.
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HD4000 driver hack for custom VRAM size
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Using 60 should give you 1.5 GB, Odd thing is, I have a Mac Mini and it already is set to use 1.5 GB by default.
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Right. When I tried that, I got the same problem. My computer boots back with 3mb "display" VRAM (so the computer can't even get at the gpu), and I have to use kext wizard to restore the VRAM back to the original 1024. Do you know why this is happening/ how to get around it?
I repaired my permissions with Disk Utility rather than Kext Wizard, as the Kext Wizard was not showing any sign of finishing the permissions repair. Would that have made a difference?
On some games here's a huge performance hit associated with running out of VRAM. Since the HD4000 just allocates main memory as VRAM, you can remove this limit. It's much more likely that the chipset simply doesn't have enough texture units, or stream processors to really make use of this extra VRAM, but if you have 16GB of memory on your machine, it may improve things when running poorly optimized code.
On a real graphics card, the VRAM is high speed GDDR5 (not memory reserved from main memory), and twiddling numbers in a kext won't help things.
hi, im trying to use it on my MB Pro mid 2012 with El capitan but it didn't work, i can copy the kext to my desktop but when i run the script on the terminal seems it does no change to the kext, as i install it with wizard and makes no change to the video memory, also after running the script i check on the file informations and it show no change for that time... on the terminal it does no show any message of problems or errors, it just ask for my password, i type and it finishes...
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Doing this would be problematic on El Capitan due to SIP and the removal of Repair Permissions. Not to mention that every system update could blow away the changes. You can work around all that, but someone already discovered earlier in this thread that as of 10.9, OS X switched to dynamic allocation up to 1GB anyway, so it's a lot of work for nothing unless you need to go higher than that, and are willing to deal with repeating the mod every time it breaks.
But if you are determined, then disable SIP, and then do the mods. When it comes to the step for repairing permissions, you'll have to do that from the command line. Repeat any time the KEXT is overwritten after a system update.
If anyone is having trouble after copying the terminal command from the first post , it looks like this:
sudo perl -pi -e 's|\x00.{1}\x10\x07\x00\x00\x10\x07|\x00\x[COLOR="Red”]40[/COLOR]\x10\x07\x00\x00\x10\x07|g' ~/Desktop/AppleIntelFramebufferCapri.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleIntelFramebufferCapri
The OP says to change the red ?? To 40....but the text shows "x[COLOR="Red”]40" ... You have to remove the [COLOR="Red"] and change the ?? to 40 (or your choice of numbers).... So try
sudo perl -pi -e 's|\x00.{1}\x10\x07\x00\x00\x10\x07|\x00\x40\x10\x07\x00\x00\x10\x07|g' ~/Desktop/AppleIntelFramebufferCapri.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleIntelFramebufferCapri
sudo perl -pi -e 's|\x00.{1}\x10\x07\x00\x00\x10\x07|\x00\x[COLOR="Red”]40[/COLOR]\x10\x07\x00\x00\x10\x07|g' ~/Desktop/AppleIntelFramebufferCapri.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleIntelFramebufferCapri
The OP says to change the red ?? To 40....but the text shows "x[COLOR="Red”]40" ... You have to remove the [COLOR="Red"] and change the ?? to 40 (or your choice of numbers).... So try
sudo perl -pi -e 's|\x00.{1}\x10\x07\x00\x00\x10\x07|\x00\x40\x10\x07\x00\x00\x10\x07|g' ~/Desktop/AppleIntelFramebufferCapri.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleIntelFramebufferCapri
I spent a few hours struggling with 7 or 14MB allocated VRAM after playing around with the Kext files, so I gave up and loaded El Capitan, which gave me 1536MB by default. Before and after scores for Unigine Heaven benchmark went from 301 down to 288.
However, I had missing bars of pixels at times on Yosemite, pushing the HD4000 close to it's (Apple regulated) limit with 1920x1080 and 2560x1440 across two monitors. Let's see if it fixes my problem.
However, I had missing bars of pixels at times on Yosemite, pushing the HD4000 close to it's (Apple regulated) limit with 1920x1080 and 2560x1440 across two monitors. Let's see if it fixes my problem.
I have a late 2011 MacBook Pro 15 with dual graphics Intel HD 3000 512 mb and AMD radeon 6750M same 512 mb, will this work with mine cards or is there any other method. BTW my os is Sierra
It should work, if you don't mind installing the older outdate beta drivers that are attached at the beginning of the thread. The terminal hacks, seem to not work for many people.
Hello guys it's my 1st time here, for the people have mbp mid 2012 i5 13" and apply this vram hack... How is it in a long run? No issues until now?
My mbp is fresh installed sierra and upgraded ssd w/ 2nd hdd & 16gb of ram. It's already marked as 1536mb status by default. Is it worth to apply this hack to 2048mb?
Btw, I planning to bump vram to 2gb because I'm running photoshop & illustrator and maybe soon add a 2nd monitor 1080p.
My mbp is fresh installed sierra and upgraded ssd w/ 2nd hdd & 16gb of ram. It's already marked as 1536mb status by default. Is it worth to apply this hack to 2048mb?
Btw, I planning to bump vram to 2gb because I'm running photoshop & illustrator and maybe soon add a 2nd monitor 1080p.
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I have a 2012 Mini with a 2.6GHz i7 and 16GB of RAM running 10.12.5 without any tweaks and it shows 1536MB allocated to VRAM.
Hi, anyone knows if this can be applied to other (non-intel) cards? I have an imac with the ATI Radeon HD 4850 (512 MB), apparently, it uses the AMDSupport.kext, AMD4800Controller, ATIRadeonX2000.kext and AMDFramebuffer.kext. I tried to patch this to 1GB on the Framebuffer kext, but nothing happened.
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I have a MacBook with Intel HD Graphics 515 1536 MB.
How do I increase it to 2 GB or 3GB?
Purpose: Gaming.
How do I increase it to 2 GB or 3GB?
Purpose: Gaming.
this way can work on intel hd 3000 ?I found a way to choose how much of VRAM you want your HD4000 to use under ML:
I also made a script if you want to try it:
Change the red ?? with the red number bellow to set the desired amount of VRAM:Code:sudo perl -pi -e 's|\x00.{1}\x10\x07\x00\x00\x10\x07|\x00\x[COLOR="Red"]??[/COLOR]\x10\x07\x00\x00\x10\x07|g' ~/Desktop/AppleIntelFramebufferCapri.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleIntelFramebufferCapri
10 = 256MB of RAM
18 = 384MB of RAM
20 = 512MB of RAM
30 = 768MB of RAM
40 = 1024MB of RAM
80 = 2048MB of RAM
1. copy AppleIntelFramebufferCapri.kext to the desktop and make a backup of it
2. run the script in the terminal (dont forget to fill in the ??)
3. install the kext, rebuild caches (i would suggest kext wizard)
4. restart pray and let me know how it went
Disclaimer: this was not yet tested on a real mac (just a few hacks), so if you want to be the first to try, here is all the info you need.
I confirm this method will work on real Mac Sierra/HS and Mojave Beta too, following the main thread tips I have done these steps to increase IntelHD4000 VRAM from 1536 MB to 2048 MB, launch Terminal and type:
cd /S*/L*/Ext*/AppleIntelFramebufferCapri.kext/C*/M*
sudo cp AppleIntelFramebufferCapri AppleIntelFramebufferCapri.backup
sudo perl -pi -e 's|\x00.{1}\x10\x07\x00\x00\x10\x07|\x00\x80\x10\x07\x00\x00\x10\x07|g' AppleIntelFramebufferCapri
sudo touch /S*/L*/Extensions
sudo reboot
cd /S*/L*/Ext*/AppleIntelFramebufferCapri.kext/C*/M*
sudo cp AppleIntelFramebufferCapri AppleIntelFramebufferCapri.backup
sudo perl -pi -e 's|\x00.{1}\x10\x07\x00\x00\x10\x07|\x00\x80\x10\x07\x00\x00\x10\x07|g' AppleIntelFramebufferCapri
sudo touch /S*/L*/Extensions
sudo reboot