Mojave on Sierra - no Metal GPU

[eyoungren]

So, yeah, yesterday I thought I'd do this. My MP has no Metal Mesh compatible GPU. But I got Mojave on it, via Parallels.

 

[casperes1996]

... Do you mean Metal?

 

[eyoungren]

... Do you mean Metal?

Yeah, I always get that confused, LOL! I'll fix the title. Thanks!

 

[Amethyst1]

So... I'll have to fire up my 2011 MBP running Snow Leopard and try to virtualise Mojave on that

 

[Project Alice]

So, yeah, yesterday I thought I'd do this. My MP has no Metal Mesh compatible GPU. But I got Mojave on it, via Parallels.

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There’s a patch that enables Mojave and Catalina to work normally with full acceleration on non-metal GPUs.

 

[Amethyst1]

There’s a patch that enables Mojave and Catalina to work normally with full acceleration on non-metal GPUs.

... which he's using to run Mojave on a 2009 Mini (right?).

 

[eyoungren]

There’s a patch that enables Mojave and Catalina to work normally with full acceleration on non-metal GPUs.

Yes, that's true. However, in this particular instance I'd rather get a Metal GPU at some point and then update.
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... which he's using to run Mojave on a 2009 Mini (right?).

Yes, the Mini and the 2008 MBP. Neither of which, I truly care if I ever have to do a restore on. However, the MacPro is carrying an installation that originally started in 2004 and has been updated over time. Rather not have to deal with juggling the patcher and my data.

 

[Amethyst1]

There you go - Mojave on Mavericks

I couldn't go as far back as Snow Leopard since Fusion 5, 6 and 7 wouldn't boot Mojave from the APFS-formatted disk image. I'll try installing a new copy in these older versions.

Edit: Added APFS incompatibility info.

 

[Macbookprodude]

So, yeah, yesterday I thought I'd do this. My MP has no Metal Mesh compatible GPU. But I got Mojave on it, via Parallels.

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Thats funny because i have Mojave running on my Mac Pro 5,1 without any such metal graphics card.. Its not as fast, but it gets the job done.

 

[eyoungren]

Thats funny because i have Mojave running on my Mac Pro 5,1 without any such metal graphics card.. Its not as fast, but it gets the job done.

Did you use dosdude's Mojave patcher?

 

[Project Alice]

Thats funny because i have Mojave running on my Mac Pro 5,1 without any such metal graphics card.. Its not as fast, but it gets the job done.

My 5,1 is lightning. But it's got dual X5680's, an NVMe SSD, 32GB of ram and a Radeon RX 590.
I've got Mojave on a 3,1 too, running on a HDD and it's considerably slower. Modern "macOS" really performs better on SSDs. It really doesn't like running on a spinner. The 3,1 has a metal card in it too, a Geforce GT 730.

 

[Amethyst1]

Modern "macOS" really performs better on SSDs. It really doesn't like running on a spinner.

Amen to that. And it really doesn't like non-HiDPI displays either.

 

[Amethyst1]

I'll try installing a new copy in these older versions.

No luck in Fusion 5 on Snow Leopard (stop sign; same with High Sierra). Mojave happily installs in Fusion 6 on a Lion host though - until it converts its partition to APFS which Fusion 5/6/7 can't deal with. (Fusion 8.5 can boot from APFS as shown earlier but that requires Mavericks as host.) So I'll have to copy my Mojave installation to a HFS+ volume and tell it to leave that well alone.

Sorry for hijacking your thread @eyoungren - will start a new thread about my experiments with this.

 

[eyoungren]

No luck in Fusion 5 on Snow Leopard (stop sign; same with High Sierra). Mojave happily installs in Fusion 6 on a Lion host though - until it converts its partition to APFS which Fusion 5/6/7 can't deal with. (Fusion 8.5 can boot from APFS as shown earlier but that requires Mavericks as host.) So I'll have to copy my Mojave installation to a HFS+ volume and tell it to leave that well alone.

Sorry for hijacking your thread @eyoungren - will start a new thread about my experiments with this.

About APFS…when setting this up the other day (High Sierra, Parallels 14) the installer would not allow me to install on the volume that Parallels had created because if was HFS+ Journaled. So, I used Disk Utility (inside the installer) to convert the disk image to APFS. I was shocked it let me do it and I was shocked it succeeded. After that, the install proceeded with no issues.

Just putting that out there.