macOS 12 Monterey on Unsupported Macs Thread

[jordanfc21]

You can create a bootable USB Monterey Installer using OCLP Patcher. You can then use the USB stick to update to Monterey.

I did that for my 2011 MBP (from Catalina to Monterey).

I might give this a try! Out of curiosity, do you have a 13" or 15" 2011? I have a 15" and might give this a try from High Sierra to Monterey but I'm concerned as my GPU died and I'm using a NVRAM workaround to disable the dGPU. Has this happened to you?

 

[mwidjaya]

check for software updates, my Mac says it is up to date, and I can't download Monterey?

Something about spoof-less (hiding behind VM install) method is not fully working on Apple's end.

Waiting for it to be fixed on Apple's end.

Workaround:
- Change spoofing level to minimum, then use Software update (Monterey will show up)
or
- Update from Monterey USB installer you can easily create

 

[yukari]

I might give this a try! Out of curiosity, do you have a 13" or 15" 2011? I have a 15" and might give this a try from High Sierra to Monterey but I'm concerned as my GPU died and I'm using a NVRAM workaround to disable the dGPU. Has this happened to you?

I too have 15” 2011 MBP. And yes my dGPU also died.

 

[jordanfc21]

I too have 15” 2011 MBP. And yes my dGPU also died.

Were there any steps extra you needed to take to upgrade? Or did you simply make sure the dGPU was disabled, and then ran the installer and post install patches? Also, does the patched graphics acceleration work pretty well? Thanks in advance!

 

[yukari]

Were there any steps extra you needed to take to upgrade? Or did you simply make sure the dGPU was disabled, and then ran the installer and post install patches? Also, does the patched graphics acceleration work pretty well? Thanks in advance!

I installed this on my 2011 MBP (15") with broken AMD Radeon GPU.
This was after I installed Catalina using this method: Catalina on 2011 MBP.

I was using Catalina and decided to try Monterey.

I have not tried from High Sierra to Monterey directly.

 

[OKonnel]

After many tests with Monterey and my 27-inch 14,2 iMac I have no more doubts that OCLP doesn't need to use KEXT AirportBroadcom and its patch as the Mac works great without this KEXT and behaves the same with both Monterey and with Catalina that I have in the other internal SSD.
Why keep it then? Is there any reason I don't know?
Obviously, after disabling and deleting this KEXT from OCLP EFI and Config.plist, I tried so many ways, using Wi-Fi and/or Bluetooth to connect to other devices, even older generation and there is no doubt that the Mac works better without this patch.
I think maximum simplification is always the best solution.
Thank you for attention

 

[macinfo]

Apple seeds macOS 12.3 RC to developers and Public Beta testers.

 

[gw463]

update 12.3 21E230 on Macpro 3.1 OCLP 0.4.2 all OK .....

 

[TOM1211]

Update 12.3 no problems using OCLP 4.3n MacBook Pro 2014

 

[TimothyR734]

Successfully installed macOS Monterey 12.3 using OCLP 0.4.3n

 

[amaze1499]

As FYI: OCLP 0.4.3n Cant revert rootpatches. No effect after restart. Also:OTA fails with insufficient space left error. Deleting time machine snapshots did not solve the issue. Creating a new 10GB .dmg file triggered MacOS to recalculate remaining space though. OTA installation went through just fine after that.

 

[furdi]

Hey guys! All great after updating my MBP 9,2 mid 2012 non-retina OTA to macOS Monterey 12.3 using OCLP 0.2.5. Everything works great. Have a good one everyone!

 

[amaze1499]

Hey guys! All great after updating my MBP 9,2 mid 2012 non-retina OTA to macOS Monterey 12.3 using OCLP 0.2.5. Everything works great. Have a good one everyone!

Out of cuiosity: Are there any graphical issues left in the build you just installed on your machine?

 

[furdi]

Out of cuiosity: Are there any graphical issues left in the build you just installed on your machine?

Hey! Beside the need to install the patch for HD4000 I got no issues.

 

[coolio2004]

As FYI: OCLP 0.4.3n Cant revert rootpatches. No effect after restart. Also:OTA fails with insufficient space left error. Deleting time machine snapshots did not solve the issue. Creating a new 10GB .dmg file triggered MacOS to recalculate remaining space though. OTA installation went through just fine after that.

With the tui 0,43n OTA went fine with my non metal MacMini5,2. Post patches with dropbox fix no save problem.

 

[mjturner]

Monterey 12.1 (or OCLP 0.3.3 or both) bring back a working VMWare Fusion on my late `12 MacMini with Intel HD4000!

Is VMware Fusion still working for you? I've not managed to get it working on the same machine with Monterey 12.2.1, OCLP 0.4.2 and Fusion 12.2.1. I get the common "Transport (VMDB) error -14: Pipe connection has been broken" error when trying to start a VM.

 

[cMP 51 neewbie]

How are your experiences with a MacBook Pro 15" Late 2013 with the NVIDIA GPU? Had some troubles when installing earlier. Is it stable once the post volume patches are applied. Anyone who just deactivated the discrete GPU forever?

 

[roysterdoyster]

MBP4,1 17-inch Early 2008, smooth update to Monterey 12.3 with latest OCLP 0.4.3n GUI OFFLINE, no issues.

 

[cab_007]

Is VMware Fusion still working for you? I've not managed to get it working on the same machine with Monterey 12.2.1, OCLP 0.4.2 and Fusion 12.2.1. I get the common "Transport (VMDB) error -14: Pipe connection has been broken" error when trying to start a VM.

I have the same situation, but there is a workaround - because HD4000 has been natively dropped by Apple, I had the challenging time figuring out that if I forced discrete GPU via gfxCardStatus, I was able to run Fusion with no issues. Apparently, have the automatic switch setting, Fusion is unable to force use of the discrete as needed. Give it a shot, gfxCardStatus

 

[hvds]

MBP4,1 17-inch Early 2008, smooth update to Monterey 12.3 with latest OCLP 0.4.3n GUI OFFLINE, no issues.

Similar model here (MBP5,2 17" mid 2009), and same positive result with installing 12.3.

 

[chucker23n1]

On my late-2013 MBP, it mostly works, but I’m seeing a lot of WPF crashes. I wonder if something in the GPU, Metal, VMware graphics, virtual Direct3D pipeline is buggy.

(FWIW: I think this one is actually DisplayLink's fault. I hadn't even thought of that; one monitor is connected through USB, for… reasons.)

Anyway, I installed OCLP back then with 0.3.1, and I gather from the release notes that Universal Control support has been improved in 0.4.2:

• Add Universal Control support for Monterey native Macs
  • Applicable for Haswell/Broadwell
  • Requires macOS 12.3 or newer

My Mac is Haswell, but not "Monterey native"; it's a MacBookPro11,2. So I'm not quite sure it applies?

Anyway, I downloaded the GUI patcher and hit "Post Install Root Patch". However, that one says "No patches found". Do I need to first un-apply the patches (I don't think I ever applied any in the first place, but I'm not entirely sure)? Do I need to re-build OpenCore?

 

[mjturner]

I have the same situation, but there is a workaround - because HD4000 has been natively dropped by Apple, I had the challenging time figuring out that if I forced discrete GPU via gfxCardStatus, I was able to run Fusion with no issues. Apparently, have the automatic switch setting, Fusion is unable to force use of the discrete as needed. Give it a shot, gfxCardStatus

Thanks for the suggestion (I did see it on the OCLP bug tracker too) - unfortunately my Mini only has HD4000 graphics so I can't switch to discrete

 

[Fernando Nakashoji]

Is VMware Fusion still working for you? I've not managed to get it working on the same machine with Monterey 12.2.1, OCLP 0.4.2 and Fusion 12.2.1. I get the common "Transport (VMDB) error -14: Pipe connection has been broken" error when trying to start a VM.

No, unfortunately Fusion stopped worked again... Everything leads to believe that it worked on Monterey 12.0 only...

 

[chucker23n1]

VMware Fusion has been working for me throughout on a patched MacBookPro11,2.

 

[LuisN]

I have the same situation, but there is a workaround - because HD4000 has been natively dropped by Apple, I had the challenging time figuring out that if I forced discrete GPU via gfxCardStatus, I was able to run Fusion with no issues. Apparently, have the automatic switch setting, Fusion is unable to force use of the discrete as needed. Give it a shot, gfxCardStatus

You can force the discrete gpu in vm graphic settings