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With the forth coming release of OpenCore Legacy Patcher v0.5.0, systems with legacy Metal GPUs will finally be able to achieve graphics acceleration in macOS Ventura!
- Reminder: These patches are still in beta and in active development. Stay on Monterey if you're not comfortable with the trade offs listed
GPU Models
Supported GPU models include:
- Intel:
- Ivy Bridge (HD4000)
- Haswell (HD4400/4600/5xxx)
- Broadwell (HD6xxx)
- Skylake (HD5xx)
- Nvidia:
- Kepler (GTX 6xx, GTX 7xx)
- AMD:
- GCN 1-3 (HD 7xxx/8xxx/9xxx, R7/R9, FirePro D300, D500, D700)
- Polaris (RX 4xx/5xx) - (Hosts lacking AVX2.0)
- Polaris (Radeon Pro 4xx/5xx) - (MacBookPro13,3/14,3)
- Vega (RX 56/64/VII) - (Hosts lacking AVX2.0)
Note: MacBookPro14,3 tested to be exempt of all graphical issues listed below.
Sample Units
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Stability issues
Issues | Severity | Affected Models | Potential Fix/Work-Around |
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"Sequoia" Metal dynamic wallpaper wallpaper won't render properly | Non-Functional | Nvidia Kepler GPUs | |
Some Metal apps crashing on Sonoma+ | Non-Functional | MacBookPro11,5 and iMac15,1 | Downgrade to macOS Ventura |
No hardware decoding on AMD Vega GPUs running Ventura+ | Non-Functional | AMD Vega (RX 56/64/VII) | Downgrade to macOS Monterey |
Photos app failing to edit portrait photos on Sonoma+ | Non-Functional | Intel Ivy-Haswell iGPUs and Nvidia Kepler GPUs | Downgrade to macOS Ventura |
Safari failing to reproduce DRM content on Sonoma+ | Non-Functional | All non-native GPUs (except MacBookPro14,3) | Use a third-party browser |
Paravirtualized Graphics is unavailable on Sonoma+ | Non-Functional | Intel Ivy-Haswell iGPUs and Nvidia Kepler GPUs | Downgrade to Ventura |
Broken Live Text | Non-Functional | Intel Ivy, Haswell iGPUs and Nvidia Kepler GPUs (portions require Metal 2) | Use 3rd party OCR software |
Black Screen on external GPUs if internal GPU is AMD Legacy GCN | Semi-Functional | AMD Legacy GCN + AMD Polaris eGPU | Render on different display |
Metal's Mesh Shader feature set not available | Non-Functional | All non-native GPUs (except MacBookPro14,3) | |
GeForceGLDriver Crashing | Non-Functional | Nvidia Kepler GPUs |
Cosmetic issues
Issues | Severity | Affected Models | Potential Fix/Work-Around |
---|---|---|---|
Native Metal 3 eGPUs may report as Metal 2 | Cosmetic | Haswell iGPUs | Has no effect on driver feature set |
Interface Build UI may become corrupted | Semi-Functional | Nvidia Kepler with Intel iGPU | |
Green Artifacts on QuickTime Timeline for .mov | Cosmetic | Intel Ivy and Haswell iGPUs | |
Artifacts on Cropped Screen recording | Non-Functional | Nvidia Kepler | Record fullscreen, crop afterwards |
- Notes:
- AMD GCN 1-3 issues are also applicable if your GPU is AMD Polaris and CPU lacks AVX2.0, e.g. MacPro3,1 - 5,1 and some select iMacs with upgradable GPUs. Additionally MacBookPro13,3 due to missing framebuffer.
- Due to Apple's merge of on-disk binaries into the dyld_shared_cache, we're reliant on the DCSE project to extract binaries.
Resolved issues
Issues | Severity | Affected Models | Potential Fix/Work-Around |
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Resolved with ce6f65d | |||
Resolved with 2753f88 | |||
Resolved with cdb40d8 | |||
Resolved with 54c56e2 | |||
Resolved with a24570d | |||
Resolved with a24570d | |||
Resolved with MacOS Sonoma | |||
Resolved with MacOS Sonoma | |||
Resolved with c052388 | |||
Resolved with 5df3cca | |||
Resolved with 20d04d3 | |||
Resolved with c064269 | |||
Resolved with c064269 | |||
Resolved in 13.0 Beta 9 | |||
Resolved with 5aa7ab3 | |||
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Resolved with 1a262c6 | ||
Resolved with 1a262c6 | |||
Resolved with 1a262c6 | |||
Resolved with 1a262c6 |
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