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Hello, It's been awhile since I posted.
On my Mac Pro 3,1 2008 Rig, I recently purchased an Original Nvidia GTX GeForce Titan 6GB. (I sold of my more expensive Titan X Maxwell) This Titan is a Kepler one. So I was hoping it would work out of the box with Mojave and High Sierra and it does for the later.
With High Sierra 10.13.6, it will use Apple's drivers natively. It also works with Nvidia's web drivers. This is nice especially if High Sierra does another update, I won't have to wait a day. It supports metal,
"feature set macOS GPUFamily1 v3." For Mojave, I hope v4 is not required or Family2 v1. On HS it fully supports 4K. The Titan has two DVI-D ports, one Display Port and One HDMI Port. It works just like my Titan X did with Nvidia's drivers.
This card is unflashed and is an original PC Card. I don't plan on getting it flashed. I am not too keen on some of the mis-information about speed and flashing cards because an unflashed card with the right drivers seems to run the exact same an a card flashed for EFI and boot screen. It also has no barring on 4K and scaled res'. You just don't get the boot screen and boot options.
With Mojave, my original Titan behaves a bit differently. I'm able to switch screen resolutions, but does not get the full range of scales resolutions. Video acceleration and Metal is NOT on. The Apple Geforce drivers don't load. It loads the Nvidia startup. K100Hal and one other Nvidia driver but the GeForce ones do not.
Without the GeForce kext's loaded the UI on Mojave actually looks quite good. No transparency but it works and does not have any artifacts. Things just run slow at time because there is no GPU acceleration at all (currently).
I hope Apple does not expect the cards for Mojave to flashed or be only a certain card and official Mac cards because for along time now since Lion I believe we've been able to use PC Cards without an issue.
For a boot screen, I keep my GeForce 8800 GT Card installed and I've used the IDE DVD drive's power for one of my eight pin connector on the Titan. And I then have two dedicated six pin connectors for the Titan and the 8800GT. This a lot cheaper than flashing a card or selling off my 8800GT and card and send out my Titan to MacVidCards to be flashed. He's charging $160. So buying the extra wiring to use the IDE power costs roughly 15 dollars. And I can still run Snow Leopard on my old card and my 8800GT runs fine on a x4 port. I keep it there because it is not needed that often. I have a 1TB PCI SSD on the x16 slot 2 and my Titan is on x16 slot 1. Overall it displaces the heat pretty well staggering the cards. On top of all that I am not swapping out cards to either. Both cards remain installed and are fully functional.
I am sure Nvidia's web drivers will solve my issue. It just would have been nice not to have to wait for Apple to release the GM.
My Titan card was just $250 on eBay. It looks brand new. Whoever sold it either took really go care of it or did a really good job refurbishing it. The fan had zero dust on it and the clear window was had no dust inside either.
For High Sierra, I highly recommend the original Titan or Titan Black card. The ability for these Kepler cards to work out of the box is just awesome. The whole Titan line is stout. I am not sure on the 1060-1080 cards as I hear mostly that the 1080 Ti requires more power for the 2008, so I've been sticking with the Titan line. The original Titan and Titan Black actually use less power than the Titan X and Titan Xp. They are way cheaper too. It's just not certain if the Titan which was made around 2013 will fit the bill for Mojave.
On my Mac Pro 3,1 2008 Rig, I recently purchased an Original Nvidia GTX GeForce Titan 6GB. (I sold of my more expensive Titan X Maxwell) This Titan is a Kepler one. So I was hoping it would work out of the box with Mojave and High Sierra and it does for the later.
With High Sierra 10.13.6, it will use Apple's drivers natively. It also works with Nvidia's web drivers. This is nice especially if High Sierra does another update, I won't have to wait a day. It supports metal,
"feature set macOS GPUFamily1 v3." For Mojave, I hope v4 is not required or Family2 v1. On HS it fully supports 4K. The Titan has two DVI-D ports, one Display Port and One HDMI Port. It works just like my Titan X did with Nvidia's drivers.
This card is unflashed and is an original PC Card. I don't plan on getting it flashed. I am not too keen on some of the mis-information about speed and flashing cards because an unflashed card with the right drivers seems to run the exact same an a card flashed for EFI and boot screen. It also has no barring on 4K and scaled res'. You just don't get the boot screen and boot options.
With Mojave, my original Titan behaves a bit differently. I'm able to switch screen resolutions, but does not get the full range of scales resolutions. Video acceleration and Metal is NOT on. The Apple Geforce drivers don't load. It loads the Nvidia startup. K100Hal and one other Nvidia driver but the GeForce ones do not.
Without the GeForce kext's loaded the UI on Mojave actually looks quite good. No transparency but it works and does not have any artifacts. Things just run slow at time because there is no GPU acceleration at all (currently).
I hope Apple does not expect the cards for Mojave to flashed or be only a certain card and official Mac cards because for along time now since Lion I believe we've been able to use PC Cards without an issue.
For a boot screen, I keep my GeForce 8800 GT Card installed and I've used the IDE DVD drive's power for one of my eight pin connector on the Titan. And I then have two dedicated six pin connectors for the Titan and the 8800GT. This a lot cheaper than flashing a card or selling off my 8800GT and card and send out my Titan to MacVidCards to be flashed. He's charging $160. So buying the extra wiring to use the IDE power costs roughly 15 dollars. And I can still run Snow Leopard on my old card and my 8800GT runs fine on a x4 port. I keep it there because it is not needed that often. I have a 1TB PCI SSD on the x16 slot 2 and my Titan is on x16 slot 1. Overall it displaces the heat pretty well staggering the cards. On top of all that I am not swapping out cards to either. Both cards remain installed and are fully functional.
I am sure Nvidia's web drivers will solve my issue. It just would have been nice not to have to wait for Apple to release the GM.
My Titan card was just $250 on eBay. It looks brand new. Whoever sold it either took really go care of it or did a really good job refurbishing it. The fan had zero dust on it and the clear window was had no dust inside either.
For High Sierra, I highly recommend the original Titan or Titan Black card. The ability for these Kepler cards to work out of the box is just awesome. The whole Titan line is stout. I am not sure on the 1060-1080 cards as I hear mostly that the 1080 Ti requires more power for the 2008, so I've been sticking with the Titan line. The original Titan and Titan Black actually use less power than the Titan X and Titan Xp. They are way cheaper too. It's just not certain if the Titan which was made around 2013 will fit the bill for Mojave.
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Did you try turning the bios protection off on the card first with 'nvflash -r'? These instructions suggest that additional step might be necessary for the flashing to take.
http://forum.vrayforc4d.com/index.php?threads/13946/
Of course. Not the first card I flash. In fact, I flashed the card following that instructions. But no GPU acceleration and no Efi screen.
I have a mid-2011 iMac 27" with AMD Radeon HD 6770M GPU. As has been noted in this thread, acceleration doesn't work in Mojave with this GPU. Are there any supported and easily obtainable GPUs that will work without issues? I have no problem opening my iMac to replace the GPU; just need to find one that will work, including the boot screen and external monitor support.
I tried searching for an Nvidia GeForce GTX 660M or 675MX with Apple firmware, which is the GPU in the late-2012 iMacs (with native Mojave support), but they seem impossible to find. I did find a 675MX pulled from a generic laptop, but I'm not sure if this would work without the Apple firmware.
I've already upgraded to an SSD and added RAM a few years ago, and the iMac runs great; I have no reason to replace it other than the lack of GPU acceleration in Mojave, so I really want to solve this.
Thanks
cinergi
I tried searching for an Nvidia GeForce GTX 660M or 675MX with Apple firmware, which is the GPU in the late-2012 iMacs (with native Mojave support), but they seem impossible to find. I did find a 675MX pulled from a generic laptop, but I'm not sure if this would work without the Apple firmware.
I've already upgraded to an SSD and added RAM a few years ago, and the iMac runs great; I have no reason to replace it other than the lack of GPU acceleration in Mojave, so I really want to solve this.
Thanks
cinergi
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It is fairly easy. Re-format the whole HDD (or SSD) on MBR with Fat32, then re-format with GPT with APFS or HFS+. For Hackintoshes with Clover, this is the best way to remove all traces and start from scratch.
You're laughing, but this machine is still running well. In fact, which each new iteration of MacOS is runs a bit smoother.
The Macbook Air mid-2011 is not eligible for Mojave - is there a workaround to nevertheless upgrade?
Pity really, Apple wants me to upgrade the hardware before there's really need to...
The Macbook Air mid-2011 is not eligible for Mojave - is there a workaround to nevertheless upgrade?
Pity really, Apple wants me to upgrade the hardware before there's really need to...
Usually, they sell the whole logic board.
https://www.ebay.es/itm/iMac-27-Lat...396628?hash=item2866bda5d4:g:4fIAAOSwiZVbihHo
Try to replace from HS into Mojave S/L/E all the required/loaded kexts for your Kepler GTX Titan, or simplier installing over Mojave the "Nvidia Web Driver pkg" you used for HS, then you have to replace also these other two kexts from your HighSierra 10.13.6 :
IOGraphicsFamily.kext
IONDRVSupport.kext
chown/chmod S/L/E permissions, rebuild kextcache, it could enable QE/CI in Mojave.
Perhaps you will be delighted taking a look at the thread over here (it might solve this issue in the future):
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-1-and-up-with-pcie-expresscard-slot.2135898/
What if in a few hours, they instead GM will release beta 11 , your "hybrid light mode" will postponed ? Please don't.
However I wanted to ask if inside the HIImageViews.h the function HIImageViewSetOpaque "true" and/or HIImageViewSetAlpha "1.0" could be a right step to make a solid white/black the Finder menu bar.
And I add, since you are deeply inside the Xcode's coding of these frameworks, if it may be possible to change the solid color of Finder menu bar (dropdown menus included) instead of white/black for example turning into blue, red or green.
That is odd given the reports of success with the same card. The nvflash program reported success, correct? I guess one could confirm the integrity of the flash by doing 'nvflash -b' afterwards and then checking that rom image matched the one used for the flash.
Your Mac is on the list for this patch: http://dosdude1.com/mojave/
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Just updated to 18A384a, installed fresh actually, no idea it's fresh install, new update or HFS+ but it's lot smoother then before, seems like APFS isn't working that well on MacBook 5,1 (SSD).
Edit: Internet connection is extremely slow on MacBook while same connection working perfect on other devices, restarted router and MacBook several times but it's same.
Edit: Internet connection is extremely slow on MacBook while same connection working perfect on other devices, restarted router and MacBook several times but it's same.
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I am sure this has been mentioned before, but, sticking with my rule of patching everything myself, I manually followed this tutorial:
https://pikeralpha.wordpress.com/2017/01/30/4398/
And I am happy to say that I have Night Shift working on my MacBook7,1 simply by replacing one "8" to a "7" in a hex editor and re-signing the file. Yay!
https://pikeralpha.wordpress.com/2017/01/30/4398/
And I am happy to say that I have Night Shift working on my MacBook7,1 simply by replacing one "8" to a "7" in a hex editor and re-signing the file. Yay!
Thanks, but my understanding is that my internal iMac display would be disabled by using an eGPU. I need a solution that maintains a working internal display.
Given all the boot screen and other issues people have reported when upgrading the internal GPU, it's beginning to look simpler to just buy a new(er) iMac and sell my old one! That is, unless Dosdude or someone else figures out a way to enable acceleration in Mojave on the AMD Radeon 6xxx series (hint, hint
). Sadly I lack the skill.-cinergi
Apple might be holding off until Wednesday for their key event most likely it will be the GM
There hasn't been a update for the iPhone/iPads etc for 2 weeks so I am sure its close to GM
Last year's product event was also on Sept 12th and the GM was released on the 14th so I would bet Friday.
[doublepost=1536601108][/doublepost]How many people here have used nvflash under Windows 10 successfully to flash a GTX 680 rather than freedos or hirens boot cd? I ask because I don't want to have two video cards drawing power to do the flash. I have seen reports of nvflash 5.134.0.1 working under Windows 10 with the '-5 -6' options.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/please-help-me-with-a-gtx-680.2071922/#post-25112150
However these reports don't mention any requirement to disable the video drivers under Window 10 before the flash as reported in this youtube video...
for stability during the flash. I assume that can't hurt, right?
I have prepared a hirens bootcd installer cd but am unclear how to get it booted without the boot selector screen since apparently the 'C' key won't be recognized without an EFI rom graphics card installed. Would pulling all of the drives out of.the bays of a MacPro 3,1 result in the Superdrive being automatically tried as a boot device? I can test that tonight but wondered if anyone knew the answer to that.
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