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macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

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Thanks to DosDude and the rest here for all the work (and tips) gettings things sorted on my macPro 4.1/5.1

I'm running the latest Beta, the last update went flawlessly!.
Main drive is a Seagate SSDD - APFS mode.
It "appears" that Time machine is running, but I have not tried a restore -
can anyone confirm its actually working?


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T-MobileCustomer2017 said:
First of all, I would like to thank all of you for your contributions that have made the macOS Mojave Patcher a reality, and especially @dosdude1 for creating patch tools for the past few versions of macOS.

Secondly, will upgrading to a more powerful CPU on a Mac that lacks hardware accelerated graphics in Mojave partially help solve user interface lag and increase frame rates?

(specifically upgrading i3-550 to i7-870 on a 27" mid-2010 iMac with Radeon HD 5670 GPU)

@Badruzeus @pkouame @jackluke @ASentientBot @0403979 @tsialex
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Not sure what the rest of your machine specs look like but a better GPU will definitely add some pizazz. Mojave adds a lot of eye-candy that depend heavily on gpu hardware acceleration (run in single-user non-hardware accelerated mode one day and you'll get it)

On the CPU, I would say it depends on your workload but doubling the number of cores, doubling the amount of cache and 10 to 20% more burst speed will definitely help intensive compute, media or bursty development/compile work. May not be a big difference if you're casually browsing. Also consider that the 870 is a bit more power hungry (about 20W more at peak load)

I also assume you're running on SSD - right? If not - you should - since you're considering critical upgrades.

Hope this helps.
 
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T-MobileCustomer2017 said:
First of all, I would like to thank all of you for your contributions that have made the macOS Mojave Patcher a reality, and especially @dosdude1 for creating patch tools for the past few versions of macOS.

Secondly, will upgrading to a more powerful CPU on a Mac that lacks hardware accelerated graphics in Mojave partially help solve user interface lag and increase frame rates?

(specifically upgrading i3-550 to i7-870 on a 27" mid-2010 iMac with Radeon HD 5670 GPU)

@Badruzeus @pkouame @jackluke @ASentientBot @0403979 @tsialex
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In my opinion absolutely, even if different architecture, I consider i3 cpu a bit improved core2duo revision, i3 cpu is dual core, while i7 for a 27" is quad core for sure (even if apple prefers mobile cpus with lower TDP, sometimes you can encounter a i7 dual core but much better than i3 anyway).

Agree with other advices in downgrade/upgrade the GPU to get QE/CI, and mainly about the i7-870 TDP is 22 Watt higher than i3-550, so check for safety your iMac model power supply specs, but I guess there are no problems.

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-870-vs-Intel-Core-i3-550
 
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thegurgz said:
El Capitan is the last supported OS available on my MBP. So I keep a small partition of El Capitan incase the patched versions of high Sierra and now Mojave ever fail, or something goes wrong. Without it, if Apple ever did patch the patcher (very unlikely) my computer would not be bricked and I could just go back to running the supported OS. It just makes sense to me to keep a stable, legal OS on my Mac that, if need be, I can easily go back to using. Another way to do this is to keep a USB stick with the El Capitan (or latest OS supported on your machine) installer on it so that you could always install it if Mojave ever failed.
However, I am considering getting rid of the partition on my internal SSD and partitioning my old HDD (currently an external time machine) and installing el cap on it and single boot Mojave, but haven’t decided yet.
Also, it’s helpful pinpointing bugs. On Mojave startup yesterday, I ran into a kextstall on the trackpad and keyboard. Booted into el cap, no kextstall. Ran first aid on Mojave, booted back into Mojave without issues. Just a consideration.
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Anyone have any suggestions on moving El Cap into a partition of my TM drive or keeping it in my internal drive? The only reason I see why it's smarter to have it on the internal drive is because of the fast booting, but if I'm never using it, then maybe I should have my SSD as Mojave only. Is there any other benefits to keeping it on my internal?
 
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Hahaha, my Mac is dying. But thanks for making the patcher! My screen is flickering and my MAc keeps restarting so I guess Mojave will never see the light of day on this machine.
 
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Is there anyway to undo what the patcher does when it applies the legacy video patch? I installed the latest update thru the system updater and then when I applied the patch it screwed my video up. Anyway to undo what the legacy video patch did or must i reinstall again? It gives everything a blue hue now...
Mid 2011 27 inch iMac.
 
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Renegd98 said:
Is there anyway to undo what the patcher does when it applies the legacy video patch? I installed the latest update thru the system updater and then when I applied the patch it screwed my video up. Anyway to undo what the legacy video patch did or must i reinstall again? It gives everything a blue hue now...
Mid 2011 27 inch iMac.
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You can remove replace the kexts yourself.
 
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I just want to come in here and want to thank all of you here for making Mojave on my MBP Late 2011 a reality. I was seriously angry at Apple for dropping the support on devices that we can actually upgrade (to a certain extent) and therefore denying new software to run on Macs that are definitely capable on doing so (as I can see right now). Apart from the graphical artifacts mentioned on the initial post, Mojave is running absolutely fine and stunning on my MBP without any issues or crashes or anything. I recently (shortly before WWDC) upgraded this MBP with an SSD and more RAM so I was quite angry for them to 'drop support' on my machine but now I can rest assured that thanks to all of you here, I'll still be able to have the newest OS on my machine without any hitches (so far).
Thank you. You guys rock!
 
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Hi everybody !

My experience and one question : (and excuse me for my English language, I am French !)

Mac OS Mojave (18A384a) runs very well on my iMac (Mid 2010 - 27" - Core i7 - 2,93 GHz - 16 Gb ram - Radeon HD 5750). And of course, no GPU acceleration but I've had (like others) disable "legacy video patch" for true screen colors.

My question is : do you reasonably believe that a solution can be found one day concerning GPU acceleration issue with this model of Radeon graphic card or it's definitely not ?

Thanks for your advises !
Nicolas
 
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Can someone clarify few issues with the GTX 680? I understand that it is supported under Mojave but it is unclear to me if the bundled Apple Nvidia drivers will do that or if I need to install Mac ones from Nvidia itself? Also, assuming the Apple Nvidia drivers support the GTX 680, is that also the case with the High Sierra bundled video drivers? Also, since I just purchased a used EVGA GTX 680 2Gb card off of eBay, I am wondering if anyone knows the best source of Apple ROM images for that card. I have been leaning towards using the tools from http://www.sugarway.com/evga-gtx680-flashed-for-mac-use/ to do the flash running under a Windows 10 bootcamp volume. However, it is unclear to me how many variations of the EVGA GTX 680 2Gb Apple ROMs there are out there. I see a bunch messages about ROM images patched to support 4Gb cards and also some traffic about issues with both sets of HDMI ports not working with all ROM images. So I am a bit perplexed about what might be considered the 'gold standard' of Apple ROM images if such a thing exists.

FYI, the exact model of EVGA GTX 680 is a 02G-P4-2684-KR. Which I assume is Superclocked.
 
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dosdude1 said:
Yes, it is your best option for having a boot screen and full acceleration under Mojave on a Mac Pro 3,1. Definitely get the card.
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Can you clarify if the stock patched Mojave fully supports the GTX 680 or do we need to also install WebDriver-387.10.10.15.15.108 or later? Some of the comments in this thread seem to suggest that the need for the Nvidia WebDrivers is optional and just a bonus for access to future software updates.
 
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Can you clarify if the stock patched Mojave fully supports the GTX 680 or do we need to also install WebDriver-387.10.10.15.15.108 or later? Some of the comments in this thread seem to suggest that the need for the Nvidia WebDrivers is optional and just a bonus for access to future software updates.
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GTX680 does NOT require Web Drivers. It will work just fine regardless of whether or not you have them installed.
 
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dosdude1 said:
GTX680 does NOT require Web Drivers. It will work just fine regardless of whether or not you have them installed.
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Thanks. I was just puzzling over which of the kernel driver extensions it would use. Both NVDANV50HalTesla.kext and NVDAResmanTesla.kext have 680 strings in them. Also, I see the same drivers in High Sierra 10.3.6 so does that mean the WebDrivers are optional under patched HS as well?
 
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Thanks. I was just puzzling over which of the kernel driver extensions it would use. Both NVDANV50HalTesla.kext and NVDAResmanTesla.kext have 680 strings in them. Also, I see the same drivers in High Sierra 10.3.6 so does that mean the WebDrivers are optional under patched HS as well?
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Kepler (GTX 600 series) have been native since at least mountain lion (10.8.2)
 
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Kepler (GTX 600 series) have been native since at least mountain lion (10.8.2)
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Thanks. Now to wait for the card and do the flash. I am going to use the instructions from


which uses a well defined combination of tool versions to do the flash. I see from the threads elsewhere here that people are having problems with various versions of nvflash. Also, I noticed that the recent readme files with those don't mention the -5 option for the program. The only part of the YouTube instructions that I find suspect is the need to have the original graphics card inserted during the flash. I would think that even with the PC roms in the GTX 680 inhibiting the display of the boot selector that the 'C' key should still allow booting from a CD and simple console graphics to execute the 'nvflash -5 -6 gtx68mac.rom' from the installed card pre-flash. Also, the idea of flashing a card with only one of two power cables attached seems odd.
 
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