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MP 1,1-5,1 OpenCore 2.0.0 And My Graphics Card

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I updated my primary Mac Pro 5,1 to OpenCore 2.0.0 this morning and it went well. I even upgraded to macOS Sonoma afterward.

Then I went to do the same thing on my secondary Mac Pro 5,1 and ran into an issue. The computer will no longer boot with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti graphics card as it had prior. I installed OpenCore 2.0.0 when prompted, installed it to my primary SSD, and then also applied the root patches as recommended by OpenCore. When the computer rebooted it did not display the boot selection screen as it had prior and rebooted itself once and nothing happened from there. The computer is still running macOS Ventura as is it had been prior with OpenCore 1.5.0.

The only difference between the two Mac Pro's is the graphics card, so I put in a older NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 card into the secondary Mac Pro and it booted directly into a recovery environment and told me that macOS needed to be reinstalled and offered an option for me to select a boot disk. Once I selected the SSD it and restarted it booted into Ventura normally. I powered off the computer, put the original GTX 650 Ti card back in and the same issue happened again, no boot, single restart and nothing on the display. I put the GT 120 back in, booted, and then I reverted the root patching and tried the original GTX 650 Ti card once again with the same results. I put the GeForce GT 120 card back in and booted into Ventura. OCLP wanted to root patch again so I let it and that went normally. So I'm using the GT 120 card in the computer for now. It's my home server computer, so the graphics card is not really doing any work AFAIK.

I'm at a loss as to what went wrong, or maybe the GTX 650 Ti just isn't going to work moving forward.
 
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Same issue with a 3.1 and gtx 760 TI founder edition, on my AMD original I can boot without problems... also cant see the solution.
OCLP 2.0.1 just came out, only source code.
 
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I just installed OCLP 2.0.1 and it did not change anything for my situation. Same problem with the GTX 650 Ti being non-functional when installed. Slapped the GT 120 back in and at least my server CMP is functional that way. FYI
 
I have a problem too which is not solved with 2.0.1. I have a Mac Pro 3,1 with Sonoma 14.6.1 and AMD RX580. Since Opencore 2.0 my RX580 stutters when playing 4K videos. Didn't have this problem with Opencore 1.5.0
 
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I decided to just go ahead and put in the graphics card that I wanted anyhow, an AMD Radeon Pro WX7100. Meaning a complete reinstall of macOS via OCLP is required. I will also be updating from Ventura to Sonoma. Going to attempt this process from OCLP 2.0.1. I’ll be sure to post a followup here once it’s completed.
 
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I updated my primary Mac Pro 5,1 to OpenCore 2.0.0 this morning and it went well. I even upgraded to macOS Sonoma afterward.

Then I went to do the same thing on my secondary Mac Pro 5,1 and ran into an issue. The computer will no longer boot with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti graphics card as it had prior. I installed OpenCore 2.0.0 when prompted, installed it to my primary SSD, and then also applied the root patches as recommended by OpenCore. When the computer rebooted it did not display the boot selection screen as it had prior and rebooted itself once and nothing happened from there. The computer is still running macOS Ventura as is it had been prior with OpenCore 1.5.0.

The only difference between the two Mac Pro's is the graphics card, so I put in a older NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 card into the secondary Mac Pro and it booted directly into a recovery environment and told me that macOS needed to be reinstalled and offered an option for me to select a boot disk. Once I selected the SSD it and restarted it booted into Ventura normally. I powered off the computer, put the original GTX 650 Ti card back in and the same issue happened again, no boot, single restart and nothing on the display. I put the GT 120 back in, booted, and then I reverted the root patching and tried the original GTX 650 Ti card once again with the same results. I put the GeForce GT 120 card back in and booted into Ventura. OCLP wanted to root patch again so I let it and that went normally. So I'm using the GT 120 card in the computer for now. It's my home server computer, so the graphics card is not really doing any work AFAIK.

I'm at a loss as to what went wrong, or maybe the GTX 650 Ti just isn't going to work moving forward.
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Problems are expected if you continue to use Nvidia cards. Its now at least 5 years and counting since the big device took place between Nvidia and Apple. Because of that Apple moved towards AMD and Metal. I am actually surprised that you guys still have Nvidia cards. The very last official Nvidia card was the PNY K5000 Quadro card to my knowledge who was somewhat exempt from Apple's initiated Nvidia ban.
My advice: Sell your Nvidia card and Go for an AMD Metal card, such as an RX 580 Pulse card to be on the save side.
 
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AlexMaximus said:
Problems are expected if you continue to use Nvidia cards. Its now at least 5 years and counting since the big device took place between Nvidia and Apple. Because of that Apple moved towards AMD and Metal. I am actually surprised that you guys still have Nvidia cards. The very last official Nvidia card was the PNY K5000 Quadro card to my knowledge who was somewhat exempt from Apple's initiated Nvidia ban.
My advice: Sell your Nvidia card and Go for an AMD Metal card, such as an RX 580 Pulse card to be on the save side.
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Yeah, I agree. I just had some extra NVIDIA cards from PC projects and for-parts machines. Didn't really want to drop in my more expensive card into the server CMP, but it's the only metal supported AMD card I had, so I had to use it.
 
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dataharvested said:
Yeah, I agree. I just had some extra NVIDIA cards from PC projects and for-parts machines. Didn't really want to drop in my more expensive card into the server CMP, but it's the only metal supported AMD card I had, so I had to use it.
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Makes sense. Originally I bought that AMD RX 580 which I converted to a low noise solution with a water block. This was such a good card that I kept it when I got the RX 6800XT card. Six month ago I sold it and fell back onto my RX 580 again, because there is no Sonoma support on that 6800xt card on the 5.1. I planed it to be the very last card. However, since OCLP 2.0.1 is such a high developed software and since Sonoma runs so great on my 2012 Mac Pro, I decided to do one more GPU upgrade. Yesterday I received a brand new in box AMD Radeon Pro Vega VII Workstation card. Original price in 2000 was 1899,00 US Dollar, I got it new for 300 Euros. I am totally stoked because Sequoa will run very good as well. This raises the great value of this machine once more and confirms this dilemma in many industries. Many older products are so much better and long living compared to the newer generations of devices with a controlled product obsolescenc. This confirms, that Apple is NOT green and full of lies.
 
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