MP 1,1-5,1 Tutorial Request: Catalina, AMD HWAccel, Handoff... etc on a 5,1

Charles Liske · Mar 25, 2020

I am fairly new to the cMP scene and have been considering upgrading my mostly stock machine. I'd love to be able to set up Catalina with all the bells and whistles via OpenCore as shown here, but am not experienced enough with OpenCore and cMPs in general to figure it out myself.
Thanks,
CL

h9826790 · Mar 25, 2020

Activate AMD hardware acceleration

I created a new "easy to install package" as per many requested (based on the official OpenCore). [The attached package updated to 1.0.0] For those who only need HWAccel, post #594 has everything you need. This new package mainly offer HWAccel + boot screen. Also, this package should work in...

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Charles Liske · Mar 27, 2020

Thanks!
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Just read through your guide, and I have one suggestion. Instead of using Clover Configurator to mount the EFI partition, use this script: https://github.com/corpnewt/MountEFI . It let me avoid using Clover configurator at all when working on an OC-based Hackintosh and is very easy to use

Macsonic · Mar 29, 2020

Charles Liske said:
I am fairly new to the cMP scene and have been considering upgrading my mostly stock machine. I'd love to be able to set up Catalina with all the bells and whistles via OpenCore as shown here, but am not experienced enough with OpenCore and cMPs in general to figure it out myself.
Thanks,
CL

Just a side note on Catalina, this OS no longer supports 32-Bit apps. But if you don't use 32 Bit apps, you're good to go. I understand Open Core is your preference. In my daily work tasks, I’m using an accounting app, AccountEdge at 32-Bit which will not run in Catalina. Need this accounting app for work and still using Mojave. You can do some reading below