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MP 1,1-5,1 Manually Configured OpenCore on the Mac Pro
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Hi all, thanks for glorious OC! All runs flawless but the mouse lag occasionally (periodically approx. all 3sec) Thats a annoying bug for cgi and video editing. Anyone experienced similar problems?!
I would highly appreciate any hints or workarounds - TIA (please redirect me if theres a better thread for it)
OC 0.6.8 happily with my MP5,1 2010 pixlas mod on catalina (last chapter) => (DP@X5690, 40GB RAM, RX5700XT, USB3.0 Card, 1TB M.2 SSD@SI-PEX40129)
PS.: Mouse wired/wireless no change
I would highly appreciate any hints or workarounds - TIA (please redirect me if theres a better thread for it)
OC 0.6.8 happily with my MP5,1 2010 pixlas mod on catalina (last chapter) => (DP@X5690, 40GB RAM, RX5700XT, USB3.0 Card, 1TB M.2 SSD@SI-PEX40129)
PS.: Mouse wired/wireless no change
If you had searched this thread before leaving 11.2, you woul have saved a lot hours.
Hello TsialexNo.
Like I explained before, only AMD GPUs are supported and you can only enable hardware assisted encoding/decoding/conversion with a MacPro5,1 after 10.14.5.
It's a resource only possible with AMD and Apple own GPUs, NVIDIA GPUs are not supported and don't have the ASICs required using a different type of hardware assistance with Windows/Linux.
If you have any further doubts, please read the first post of the thread below and ask any questions there, not here.
Activate AMD hardware acceleration
[For existing OpenCore users, you can always download my latest OpenCore package at post #1314 for update] Full HWAccel achieved now! Everything is covered in the OpenCore thread. The step by step tutorial to enable AMD hardware acceleration is now at here, but I strongly recommend you go...forums.macrumors.com
Many Thanks to you and all the others who give so friendly answers to all the questions others have and which know very well what they are talking about and having so much experience!!
Now I'd like to ask a question too, as a "noob" I am:
Having a cMP 5.1 running Mojave, installed Catalina on separate disk with OpenCore. Additionally I have on a 3rd disk Windows10 in EFI mode, installed about 2 years ago. Booting into Catalina at the moment only for security updating and Windows sometimes for playing a game.
Now I have seen here in this Thread that BootROM can/will be affected when using OpenCore, Windows or Catalina on unsupported Mac. That brought me to do PRAM for 5 Chimes, which showed me a bit more free space in the dumped BootROM, using RomTool (from DosDude) and UEFITool.
Long speech short sense: I would like to send you my BootROM dump so you could clean it up for me. Would that be possible? I pay for it, that's clear! Thank you for response.
Please do not include OpenCore in your list of culprits.
You posted a badly deformed piece of information, and as always, this is a piece of information that will be passed on. [EDIT: sometimes being too smart blows back very badly indeed, please read the above including the edits, and crank up your criticism, as not everything you see on the internet is true, as Abraham Lincoln once said]
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Since when Catalina is a supported macOS release for a MacPro5,1? AFAIK the last supported macOS release is Mojave and Catalina installer actively blocks any Mac Pros older than MacPro6,1.
You also did the same, no?
If you run windows in UEFI mode without OpenCore you run significant more risk of nvram overload and corruption. That’s why I use windows in legacy bootcamp mode. But if you know what you’re doing you can certainly run it UEFI under OpenCore. But why? Once you have all the bootcamp drivers sorted out, it works fine in bootcamp legacy mode and more safely.
Wrong info, last officially supported macOS release for a MacPro5,1 is 10.14.6.
Don't tell that to people that never ever used any OS besides macOS and still bricked. It's no news that Apple also does sh_t sometimes. Several examples:
- botched firmware updates with MP51.0087.B00 or 142.0.0.0.0,
- software updates that fail and enter a loop writing to the NVRAM and then indirectly brick Mac Pros,
- different syntaxes for NVRAM variables that cause variable multiplication when you boot different macOS releases, BT variables are one of the best examples for this issue, and then indirectly brick Mac Pros in the long run,
- garbage collection that doesn't always work.
There are valid reasons to run UEFI installed Windows with a MacPro5,1, like NVMe support. The issue is that you need to be aware of the problems and deploy all mitigations.
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Hi hwojtek
OpenCore is a nice piece of software and will never be in my list of culprits, and yes, you are right about Windows 10 without OpenCore, that's what I did 2 years ago...mea culpa! On the other side you are wrong with Catalina, Apple's official website says Mojave was the latest native supported macOS on cMP 2010, using a Metal capable graphics card (having old GTX 680). Sorry if my post did inform badly, but English is not my mother tongue and I tried do write as good as possible for me.
Hi Dewdman42
I am planning/trying to configure OpenCore in a manner that I can boot EFI Windows via OpenCore without having ROM-Troubles, if that is possible. Will see....
(FYI: With reference to the above comment, I tried doing a clean install, it worked. It took some time though. I was able to update to 11.4 with out any issues)
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This type of report is totally useless and unnecessary here. We know that from the day of 10.3 beta release.
We also know that sometimes you corrupt all disks or brick your Mac Pro.
Just in case anyone missed it, opencore 7.0 is out.
Yes. You need to use https://github.com/khronokernel/IO80211-Patches, Use the Mojave patched Kext. I have the brcm4332b.
I did it like an unattended install. Did a backup of my files, formatted, initiated the install and left it. It took some good amount of time and restarts i feel. Also, when 11.4 was released, update went through with out any issues.
I have CMP 4.1/5.1 dual CPU 5680, 96Gb RAM, GPU Radeon Pro W5700 or W5500 or RX580 (also RX570)
BigSur 11.2.3 with OC 0.6.9
Сan open core reallocate resources between the processor and the video card? I got a problem:
After replacing Sapphire RX580 with Radeon Pro W5700, my cMP processor performance decreased. According to the Geekbench 5, the score became 6200 instead of 6800, as well as about 20% slower CPU rendering in the corona benchmark or CinebenchR23 But, if I return the RX580 or put Radeon Pro W5500, the results of the processor's work will return to the previous level of good performance. As to TBP: RX580 has 225 watts, W5500 has 130 watts, and 5700 has 205 watts. I thought at first that it was motherboard reaction to the modern GPU 6+8 pin power connectors, that reduced the CPU performance, so I switched it to a pixlas mod, but no improvement happened, then the problem is something else. I didn’t find any information on macrumors forum about decreasing CPU performance due to GPU. May be my question will be reason for additional research?
Also Parallels Desktop + windows 10 works with W5700 awful
BigSur 11.2.3 with OC 0.6.9
Сan open core reallocate resources between the processor and the video card? I got a problem:
After replacing Sapphire RX580 with Radeon Pro W5700, my cMP processor performance decreased. According to the Geekbench 5, the score became 6200 instead of 6800, as well as about 20% slower CPU rendering in the corona benchmark or CinebenchR23 But, if I return the RX580 or put Radeon Pro W5500, the results of the processor's work will return to the previous level of good performance. As to TBP: RX580 has 225 watts, W5500 has 130 watts, and 5700 has 205 watts. I thought at first that it was motherboard reaction to the modern GPU 6+8 pin power connectors, that reduced the CPU performance, so I switched it to a pixlas mod, but no improvement happened, then the problem is something else. I didn’t find any information on macrumors forum about decreasing CPU performance due to GPU. May be my question will be reason for additional research?
Also Parallels Desktop + windows 10 works with W5700 awful
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Hello everyone, i would like to know if there a way to download MAC OS Catalina?
because the part of the tutorial :
curl -O -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/munki/macadmin-scripts/main/installinstallmacos.py && sudo python installinstallmacos.py
doesn't work.
Regards
Code:
[ ! -d ~/macOS-installer/ ] && mkdir ~/macOS-installer; cd ~/macOS-installer; [ ! -f ~/macOS-installer/installinstallmacos.py ] && curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/munki/macadmin-scripts/main/installinstallmacos.py; sudo python installinstallmacos.py --catalogurl https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-11-10.15-10.14-10.13-10.12-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalogDownload installers with glibMacOS: https://github.com/corpnewt/gibMacOS
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I upgraded to OC 0.7.0 this afternoon, along with the latest releases of AppleALC, Whatevergreen and OpenCanopy. I've reused my previous config.plist (inherited from 0.6.9 and earlier releases). Everything seems to be working just fine (Big Sur 11.2.3, naturally). I hope someone can clarify whatever new 0.7.0 parameters are worth considering.