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Edgecrusherr

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Question here:
I have a Mac Pro 5,1, and I like the price of the Gigabyte Maple Ridge card. I don’t need the full speed of Thunderbolt, and want it more so for Windows 11 side of things for Steam VR gaming using my Oculus Quest 2 (my current 3.1 card isn’t giving me a reliable connection). I’m ok with glorified USB 3 on the Mac.

Is the Gigabyte Maple Ridge card do-able for me?

I started out googling USB 4 cards, but it doesn’t look like those are being produced yet. I can play VR games just fine my 2019 16” MBP over thunderbolt 3 with a really good thunderbolt 4 cable. The Mac Pro is more powerful in every way (except single core CPU), but the VR connection cuts out. I know that the Xeon CPU isn’t officially supported, but the Oculus app gives it a high score, and so does the VR benchmark too. So, I’m hoping a better USB/Thunderbolt card is the way to resolve this.

Thanks in advance!
 

joevt

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Question here:
I have a Mac Pro 5,1, and I like the price of the Gigabyte Maple Ridge card. I don’t need the full speed of Thunderbolt, and want it more so for Windows 11 side of things for Steam VR gaming using my Oculus Quest 2 (my current 3.1 card isn’t giving me a reliable connection). I’m ok with glorified USB 3 on the Mac.

Is the Gigabyte Maple Ridge card do-able for me?

I started out googling USB 4 cards, but it doesn’t look like those are being produced yet. I can play VR games just fine my 2019 16” MBP over thunderbolt 3 with a really good thunderbolt 4 cable. The Mac Pro is more powerful in every way (except single core CPU), but the VR connection cuts out. I know that the Xeon CPU isn’t officially supported, but the Oculus app gives it a high score, and so does the VR benchmark too. So, I’m hoping a better USB/Thunderbolt card is the way to resolve this.

I used the ASUS ThunderboltEX4 for USB 3.1 gen 2 on a MacPro3,1. I think DisplayPort Alt Mode should also work but I don't have the MacPro3,1 anymore. and the ThunderboltEX4 is packed away for now.
 
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Edgecrusherr

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I used the ASUS ThunderboltEX4 for USB 3.1 gen 2 on a MacPro3,1. I think DisplayPort Alt Mode should also work but I don't have the MacPro3,1 anymore. and the ThunderboltEX4 is packed away for now.
That's for your input. Do you remember roughly what kind of speeds you were getting off that card? I'm currently maxing out at 2.0Gbps on a cheaper USB 3.1 gen 1 card.
 

sines

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I have 3x MacPro 5,1s, all booting Monterey 12.7.1-4 via McFiver cards using OC 0.9.8. One has a flashed Titan Ridge in slot 4 (with USB jumper) and NO 100W power. Confirmed working with using USB-C ports to mount drives so far. I'm trying to make some legacy DIT stations for Arri Alexa XTs which require either an ATTO 608 PCI card and MacFuse (going way back to Mojave or even Catalina), or preferably, the more recent Codex Capture Dock (Thunderbolt). I can successfully use these docks with a M1 MacMini or 2017 Intel MacBook Pro, but we want to use the speed and capacity of these towers to dump footage as fast as possible.

I get the following errors when using an Apple TB3>TB2 adapter and genuine, brand new TB2 cable, "Cannot Use Thunderbolt Accessory — Thunderbolt accessories are not supported on this Mac." via both McFiver and Titan Ridge USB-C/TB3 ports. I get nothing when using the TB2 cable directly into the TB2 Titan Ridge ports. Unfortunately I do not have any other TB2 accessories to test these ports with.

My (actually Martin Lo's, from here) config.plist is attached.

Let me know if you have any ideas. Thanks!
 

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macsoundsolutions

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I have 3x MacPro 5,1s, all booting Monterey 12.7.1-4 via McFiver cards using OC 0.9.8. One has a flashed Titan Ridge in slot 4 (with USB jumper) and NO 100W power. Confirmed working with using USB-C ports to mount drives so far. I'm trying to make some legacy DIT stations for Arri Alexa XTs which require either an ATTO 608 PCI card and MacFuse (going way back to Mojave or even Catalina), or preferably, the more recent Codex Capture Dock (Thunderbolt). I can successfully use these docks with a M1 MacMini or 2017 Intel MacBook Pro, but we want to use the speed and capacity of these towers to dump footage as fast as possible.

I get the following errors when using an Apple TB3>TB2 adapter and genuine, brand new TB2 cable, "Cannot Use Thunderbolt Accessory — Thunderbolt accessories are not supported on this Mac." via both McFiver and Titan Ridge USB-C/TB3 ports. I get nothing when using the TB2 cable directly into the TB2 Titan Ridge ports. Unfortunately I do not have any other TB2 accessories to test these ports with.

My (actually Martin Lo's, from here) config.plist is attached.

Let me know if you have any ideas. Thanks!
Set false to true under thunderbolt near the top of the config.plist
<key>Comment</key>
<string>Thunderbolt 3</string>
<key>Enabled</key>
<false/> (change to <true/>) save and reboot, you will always need to cold boot and reboot to get thunderbolt peripherals to show up.
 

KevinClark

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Without OC, only if you boot Windows first, then warm boot macOS. If you boot macOS directly from power-on, won't work.
HI I hope you re fine I have tried to use and injected SSDT titan ridge from Martin LO open core package in OCLP to use Ventura or Sonoma with MY 2 UAD Thunderbolt Devices in daisy chain mode on a single port with Martin LO under Monterey I get the automatic short reboot (with fake error message) but when using Ventura or Sonoma with OCLP + SSDT the boot process stop while The SDDT is fully recognized in the Ventura or Sonoma OS do I have to do something special in OCLP package to get the automatic reboot and get all my thunderbolt devices connected without having 3 reboot do connect all Thanks bro
 

KevinClark

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Set false to true under thunderbolt near the top of the config.plist
<key>Comment</key>
<string>Thunderbolt 3</string>
<key>Enabled</key>
<false/> (change to <true/>) save and reboot, you will always need to cold boot and reboot to get thunderbolt peripherals to show up.
Does it work for you in Ventura or Sonoma with SSDT injected in OCLP Thanks
 

KevinClark

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I have installed all my music apps on Sonoma 14.7 with OCLP 2 0 2. It works good on my Mac Pro 5.1 with Cubase Pro 13 and UAD thunderbolt 3 Apollo silver and satellite UAD Quad Thunderbolt 2. The only issue : I can't get like in Martin Lo, the connection of the thunderbolt devices with a short reboot, I need to restart 2 times to get both devices connected to Titan ridge. (SSDT injected without UAD ok With UAD stop booting in the middle of )
So I would like to plug each thunderbolt device on the separate thunderbolt port of titan ridge, but sometimes connected sometimes nothing. So I use daisy chain mode on one titan ridge Port. Any suggestions to get the 2 ports working both good ? Thanks When I don't connect my Thunderbolt to titan ridge the ssdt injected in OCLP is detected and working, when UAD devices are connected using it, the boot stop in the middle of the process

Thanks in advance for your help
 
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Macschrauber

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I have installed all my music apps on Sonoma 14.7 with OCLP 2 0 2 seems to work so good on my Mac Pro 5.1 with Cubase Pro 13 UAD thunderbolt 3 Apollo silver and satellite UAD Quad Thunderbolt 2 the only issues is that I can't get like in Martin Lo the connection of the thunderbolt devices with a short reboot I need to restart 2 times to get both devices connected I would like to plug each thunderbolt device on the separate thunderbolt port of titan ridge but sometimes connected sometimes nothing so I use daisy chain mode on one titan ridge Port Any suggestions to get the 2 ports working both good ? Thanks When I don't connect my Thunderbolt to titan ridge the ssdt injected in OCLP is detected and working when UAD devices are connected using it the boot stop in the middle of the process
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