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macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

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jhowarth said:
http://www.macvidcards.com/store/p28/Nvidia_GTX_Titan_Black_6_GB_(Flashing_Service_Only,_Informational_Page).html

suggests that you may be able to get MacVidcards to flash EFI roms on it for around $180. I also saw some some threads suggesting that the Mac rom flash might require a larger EEPROM to be installed which would explain the price. Otherwise, someone likely would have posted a dump of those rom images by now.
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MVC’s website lists the Titan upgrade for $160 which is a little steep and I don’t know for sure if it will make a 3,1 run at 5.0 GT/s. I had one of his cards before the Titan X Maxwell and did not see a difference from a usability standpoint or any speed bump in Fortnite. The 3,1 MP might stay locked. His cards show 2.5GT/s in system profiler unlike AMD’s flashed cards which show 5.

He also does more marketing stuff on his site so hard to tell what is true or not. And his account is suspended on here. I saw some of his posts and he comes off as a prick. He also did some stuff with Netkas and so did i back in the hackintosh days with Clonetool and he’s a nice guy but I think MVC stole whatever knowledge gained and then ran off by himself which none of us did back then. So I will look for a card that can be flashed, find one that is, or just wait. I don’t want to put much more into the 2008s than I already did.

There is this new group called Bison or Bizon that sell Mac cards.

I will probably sell off my AMD card too unless I can emulate its instruction set and load kexts manually which may be possible still.
[doublepost=1536779621][/doublepost]I don’t know about you but Mojave was a footnote at today’s event. So were Macs.

No new modular Mac Pro.
No new Mac Mini.

More reason not to buy a new Mac.

I make iOS games in my spare time and even the new phones and the watch felt like, i’ve seen all this before at WWDC 2015.
 
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MacVidCards = Rominator (banned here).

He's done a lot for the community overall, but sometimes comes off as an arrogant prick too (in his bad days).



Starplayr said:
MVC’s website lists the Titan upgrade for $160 which is a little steep and I don’t know for sure if it will make a 3,1 run at 5.0 GT/s. I had one of his cards before the Titan X Maxwell and did not see a difference from a usability standpoint or any speed bump in Fortnite. The 3,1 MP might stay locked. His cards show 2.5GT/s in system profiler unlike AMD’s flashed cards which show 5.

He also does more marketing stuff on his site so hard to tell what is true or not. And his account is suspended on here. I saw some of his posts and he comes off as a prick. He also did some stuff with Netkas and so did i back in the hackintosh days with Clonetool and he’s a nice guy but I think MVC stole whatever knowledge gained and then ran off by himself which none of us did back then. So I will look for a card that can be flashed, find one that is, or just wait. I don’t want to put much more into the 2008s than I already did.

There is this new group called Bison or Bizon that sell Mac cards.

I will probably sell off my AMD card too unless I can emulate its instruction set and load kexts manually which may be possible still.
[doublepost=1536779621][/doublepost]I don’t know about you but Mojave was a footnote at today’s event. So were Macs.

No new modular Mac Pro.
No new Mac Mini.

More reason not to buy a new Mac.

I make iOS games in my spare time and even the new phones and the watch felt like, i’ve seen all this before at WWDC 2015.
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Some sound issues on my Hackintosh, but I do not use the AppleHDA patch, I have it replaced completly with a third party solution, it does not work on my Hackintosh.
 
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nekton1 said:
MacOS 10.14 (18a389) released to testers—looks like candidate Final to me
[doublepost=1536781828][/doublepost]Patcher seems to be not updated for latest full version b/c still downloads 14.0.21 installer version
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In complete agreement, 1 indicator is Get Info shows 10.14. with no build after it, as with last 3 or so updates thru Software Update only "patch" I had to do was audio. On 11.3 iMac w/out acceleration still pretty snappy, as stated before. not recommended as a primary sys, w/out acceleration, at least at this point. Really was a straightforward update, took maybe 15 minutes with only 1 reboot.
 
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Mojave Developer Preview 11 successfully updated via SystemPreferences|SoftwareUpdate

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The build number does not show this time, but when I verified via Terminal, the build number shows up as
System Version: macOS 10.14 (18A389).

Terminal command I used to verify: "system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType"

The update download size was 2.15gb

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FYI.

~Aloha~!
 
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Starplayr said:
MVC’s website lists the Titan upgrade for $160 which is a little steep and I don’t know for sure if it will make a 3,1 run at 5.0 GT/s. I had one of his cards before the Titan X Maxwell and did not see a difference from a usability standpoint or any speed bump in Fortnite. The 3,1 MP might stay locked. His cards show 2.5GT/s in system profiler unlike AMD’s flashed cards which show 5.

He also does more marketing stuff on his site so hard to tell what is true or not. And his account is suspended on here. I saw some of his posts and he comes off as a prick. He also did some stuff with Netkas and so did i back in the hackintosh days with Clonetool and he’s a nice guy but I think MVC stole whatever knowledge gained and then ran off by himself which none of us did back then. So I will look for a card that can be flashed, find one that is, or just wait. I don’t want to put much more into the 2008s than I already did.

There is this new group called Bison or Bizon that sell Mac cards.

I will probably sell off my AMD card too unless I can emulate its instruction set and load kexts manually which may be possible still.
[doublepost=1536779621][/doublepost]I don’t know about you but Mojave was a footnote at today’s event. So were Macs.

No new modular Mac Pro.
No new Mac Mini.

More reason not to buy a new Mac.

I make iOS games in my spare time and even the new phones and the watch felt like, i’ve seen all this before at WWDC 2015.
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If you haven't run into this thread, you may want to read it...

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/nvidia-titan-kepler-efi-rom-for-mac-pro.1605990/

which suggests that the Titan ROM might be larger on Mac EFI units than on stock PC. I would try to find out if that were true as it could explain the pricing if they have to swap out the existing EEPROM chip for a larger one to do the flash. It does match what I had read elsewhere that suggested that Nvidia cards newer than the GTX 680 required 'hardware tweaks' for Mac ROMs to work.
 
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The software update didn't work on a MacPro 3,1 that has beta10 seed installed on an APFS volume on a hard drive. The machine kernel panics during the reboot after the upgrade and on any subsequent reboot. Back to the full installer.
 
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