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Description
Thanks to recent developments in the community and great work from @asentientbot and the Moraea team, we've made great progress on GPU Acceleration support.
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Hardware Support
- NVIDIA Tesla: 8XXX-3XX
- NVIDIA Fermi: 4XX-5XX
- NVIDIA Maxwell: 9XX
- NVIDIA Pascal: 10XX
- ATI TeraScale 1: HD 2XXX-4XXX
- AMD TeraScale 2: HD 5XXX-6XXX
- Intel 5th Generation GPUs / Ironlake (1st Gen Intel Core)
- Intel 6th Generation GPUs / Sandy Bridge (2nd Gen Intel Core)
Note that these patches are in active development and there are many issues, some listed below:
Current Issues with Acceleration Patches
Stability Issues
| Issues | Reporter | Severity | Priority | Potential Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graphics switching broken on dual GPU machines | DhinakG | Moderate | Moderate | Unknown, use gSwitch for manual switching |
Sequoia only issues
| Issues | Reporter | Severity | Priority | Potential Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frozen gallery and no thumbnails on Photos app | EduCovas | High | High | Downgrade to Sonoma |
| Tiled windows feature doesn't work | EduCovas | Moderate | Moderate | Use a third party app |
| New Metal rendered wallpapers doesn't work | EduCovas | Moderate | Moderate | Requires Metal API |
| inverted colors on selected window screenshots | EduCovas | Moderate | Moderate | Downgrade to Sonoma |
| Broken background on Weather app | EduCovas | Moderate | Moderate | Downgrade to Sonoma (WeatherUI requires Metal API) |
Sonoma and newer issues
| Issues | Reporter | Severity | Priority | Potential Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Show desktop shortcuts not working | EduCovas | Moderate | Moderate | Downgrade to Ventura |
| Cycle through windows shortcut not working | EduCovas | Moderate | Moderate | Downgrade to Ventura |
General Issues
| Issues | Reporter | Severity | Priority | Potential Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DRM content won't play in Safari, TV and Music | EduCovas | Moderate | Unfixable | Use a third party browser (Hardware decoding unavailable on non-Metal GPU drivers) |
| Stage Manager non-functional | Mykola | Moderate | Moderate | Unsupported on non-Metal (incompatible with 10.14.6 SkyLight) |
| AirPlay display unstable | MykolaG | Moderate | Moderate | Unknown |
| Broken Maps in Monterey and newer | Mykola | Moderate | Moderate | Downgrade to Big Sur (Monterey VectorKit requires Metal) |
| Strange Window corners on HiDPI | Mykola | Moderate | Moderate | Unknown |
| Broken top bar in fullscreen on Chrome | ParaDoX1994 | Moderate | Moderate | Avoid fullscreen or use a non-Chrome browser |
Resolved Issues
| Issues | Reporter | Severity | Priority | Potential Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EduCovas | Moderate | Moderate | Resolved with macOS Sequoia | |
| EduCovas | Moderate | Moderate | Resolved with f8a3d57 | |
| EduCovas | Moderate | Moderate | Resolved with 54c56e2 | |
| EduCovas | Moderate | Moderate | Resolved with 54c56e2 | |
| PatrickBK | Moderate | Moderate | Resolved with 0.6.8 | |
| Mykola | Resolved | Resolved | Resolved with 0.6.6 and MacOS Ventura | |
| Mykola | Resolved | Resolved | Resolved with 0.6.6 | |
| ASentientBot | Resolved | Resolved | Resolved with 0.4.3 | |
| ASentientBot | Resolved | Resolved | Resolved with 0.4.3 | |
| ASentientBot | Resolved | Resolved | Resolved with 0.4.3 | |
| MykolaG | Resolved | Resolved | Resolved with 0.4.2 | |
| neogomo | Resolved | Resolved | Resolved with 0.4.3 | |
| Mykola | Resolved | Resolved | Resolved with 0.4.3 | |
| ASentientBot | Moderate | Moderate | Resolved with 0.4.4 | |
| MykolaG | Moderate | Moderate | Resolved with 0.4.4 | |
| vale21 | Moderate | Moderate | Resolved with 0.4.5 | |
| Mykola | Moderate | Moderate | Resolved with 0.6.3 | |
| MykolaG | Moderate | Moderate | Select emojis with arrow keys, resolved with 0.6.3 and macOS Ventura | |
| MykolaG | Moderate | Moderate | Resolved in Monterey | |
| ASentientBot | Moderate | Moderate | Resolved with 0.6.3 | |
| EduCovas | Moderate | Moderate | Resolved with 0.6.3 | |
| EduCovas | Moderate | Moderate | Resolved with 0.6.3 | |
| MykolaG | Moderate | Moderate | Resolved with 0.6.6 |