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Masoalan

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Jul 13, 2022
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Hello, i was thinking to upgrade my macos to catalina with opencore as i have purchased a new 5500xt for gaming in windows. Iam curently running a 5,1 macpro with the stock hd5870 for bootscren and the 5500xt. Till now i have been on high sierra 1.13 but the 5500xt isnt suported until 1.15 catalina. i was wondering if is it really worth to upgrade to catalina or should go directly to sequoia and if the 5500 is still supported, also i have seen that the 5870 isnt supported in 1.15 so does opencore have a workaround to that or will only the 5500 work?
 

tsialex

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With a MacPro5,1, NAVI GPUs (RX 5500XT is a NAVI GPU) are supported up to Monterey. So, won't work with Ventura/Sonoma/Sequoia at all.
 
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Masoalan

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Jul 13, 2022
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ok thanks, also it has nothing to do.
in windows partition i have a dual monitor setup but it gave me problems with the drivers for having the two gpus dismatched, in an atempt of trying to override the windows sugested microsoft basic display adapter drivers i accidentaly changed something and now the gpu will only show picture at boot, when initalizing drivers as windows starts it gets freezed with the windows logo indefinetly, even though windows fully boots and works fine.
 

Macschrauber

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ok thanks, also it has nothing to do.
in windows partition i have a dual monitor setup but it gave me problems with the drivers for having the two gpus dismatched, in an atempt of trying to override the windows sugested microsoft basic display adapter drivers i accidentaly changed something and now the gpu will only show picture at boot, when initalizing drivers as windows starts it gets freezed with the windows logo indefinetly, even though windows fully boots and works fine.
For bootscreen you can go the EnableGop path:
 
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