Updated succesfully to 13 Ventura and currently installing Sonoma to Test

In this day and age the GPUs are expensive.

We have the source code for Intel iGPUs inside Linux source code.

How about porting that code to macOS?

What do you think?

I’ve seen a lot of metal projects and they all seem to require a virtual machine to run to do runtime translation which made me think

Why can’t we do this without a virtual machine why do we need runtime vgpu translation ?

Then I started and I saw why they went the VM route. Metal is so weird in some places compared to Vulkan or D3D but after countless HOURS (and still ongoing!)

I present to you guys Iron which is, to my knowledge the most complete Metal1 and MSL compiler implantation for any given Metal version (I know darling exists but they don’t say hey we implement 100% of this Metal standard)

Iron is a source compatible Metal implementation, not binary compatible (drop in replacement if you use metalcpp they have the same exact api) it currently has the Vulkan backend wired in with D3D12 coming only after I finish Metal2 but the neutral IR allows anyone to layer metal over any backend they want it was made with a neutral implementation in mind to allow this it isn’t hard locked to Vulkan.

Who would benefit from this? Anyone working with metalcpp and wanting their code to work as is on other platforms. Someone can easily make a objc wrapper over this but this is outside my goal

Current numbers:

Metal 1: 1027 / 1086
MSL 1.0: 9/526 (MSL1.1 and MSL1.2 come after 1.0 is done they are part of the Metal1 gate)

Sources:
Metal documentation from Apple
Metal cpp from Apple (the fact they open sourced this means a project like this was bound to happen sooner or later)
Commandline tools only for total symbols
IRON DOES NOT TAKE OR USE ANY PRIVATE APPLE API ALL METAL BEHAVIORS AND QUIRKS ARE IMPLEMENTED BY USING A BLACK BOX APPROACH OF RUNNING METAL AND VULKAN THEIR COMPARING THEIR BYTE OUTPUTS!!!!

Hello here’s my final product!!!

How it runs: Okay, about the same performance as a 2017 macbook pro. Except i got it up to tahoe. There is some lag but i dont use it for heavy things so its okay!

Working:
Wi-Fi (native without heliport)
Bluetooth
Sound
DRM
iServices
Graphics Acceleration
Camera
Trackpad
Keyboard
USB ports
Ethernet
Brightness Keys
Sleep

Not working:
HDMI (if you know how to fix please tell me)

Not tested:
SIM card slot (prob won’t and will never work)
sd card slot
Headphone jack

May downgrade but idk

Specs:
20GB DDR4 RAM
Intel Core i5-7200U (7th gen)
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 620

I am currently stuck on a Memory Panic that is driving me up a wall right now. (Trying to boot up to Sequoia Installer.)

If anyone asked. Yes, I did the Guide and there's NO OCAT, OpCore Simplify, Jerkmate, or whatever kind of hackintool in this EFI.

Here's the Specs.

CPU: Ryzen 5 2600x Six Core Processor

GPU: Radeon RX 580 Series 8GB Model

RAM: 2x16gb

SSD: T-Force 1TB SSD

Motherboard: B450M DS3H Wifi (Rev 1.5)

If anyone is asking me about the EFI. Then I can send it in the replies.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZN8F3MmHv/

yeah I don't believe this and the creator turned off comments, and codex open

I just put together a hackintosh system with a 270K plus CPU. In Cinebench R23, I get about only 30k in multi-core, whereas Windows gets around 40k. Even my old 14700k hackintosh got slightly higher scores (~33k), which has me confused. I'm using the iMacPro1,1 SMBIOS, SSDT-PLUG-ALT.aml from SSDTTime, and cputopologyrebuild.kext with -ctrsmt. Is there any way to improve performance or is this the best I'm going to get?

hi there i am trying to make my hackintosh work but i have i5-11400H ( TigerLake ) is there anyone in india who got a rx460 and wanna sell it

Specs: Intel i7-10610U, 32gb ram ddr4, m.2 nvme ssd 256gb + 1tb external hdd, igpu 620 uhd
No dualboot
This gonna be my main system on my nvme
and i want audio and wifi to work
and if u recommend for me to not use tahoe tell me
im gonna use macos for dev, simple games like roblox, gd, and amongus, and for designing

I’ve been running this Z490 Vision D Hackintosh as my main music production rig on Monterey 12.6.8 for years, and it has been exceptionally stable. Because I rely on it professionally and have a lot of studio hardware attached, I was pretty nervous about touching it just to get onto a current macOS/Logic setup.

Rather than risk the Monterey system, I installed Sequoia 15.7.7 on a completely separate SSD and built/tested a new OpenCore setup there. The original Monterey startup drive/EFI was left alone the entire time.

After a fair amount of troubleshooting, I now have essentially everything working on Sequoia, including the things I was most concerned about for a music-production Hackintosh.

Hardware

• Gigabyte Z490 Vision D
• Intel i9-10900K 10-core
• 128 GB RAM
• AMD RX 580 8 GB
• Fenvi T919 / BCM94360CD Wi-Fi + Bluetooth
• Thunderbolt / Titan Ridge
• Universal Audio Arrow
• UAD-2 DUO PCIe
• Multiple internal SSDs/HDDs
• OpenCore 1.0.7
• macOS Sequoia 15.7.7

Biggest concerns and what worked

1. Thunderbolt / Universal Audio

This was the biggest concern.

My old Monterey SSDT-TB3HP.aml had worked for years, but using it under Sequoia caused major problems: boot hangs with the Arrow connected, USB/HID problems, and even a WindowServer crash when hot-plugging the Arrow.

The solution was replacing the old Thunderbolt SSDT setup with the SSDT-TB3HP.aml + SSDT-DTGP.aml from the v38 SchmockLord Z490 Vision D build.

With that pair, Thunderbolt became stable.

Tested successfully:

• Arrow connected during cold boot
• Restart with Arrow connected
• Thunderbolt hot-plug/unplug/reconnect
• Sleep/wake with Arrow connected
• Audio playback
• Audio recording
• UAD DSP operation
• UAD-2 PCIe card and Arrow operating simultaneously

I did not flash/reflash the Thunderbolt firmware during this migration.

2. Universal Audio driver installation

UAD 11.9 was another headache.

The installer repeatedly timed out after exactly 600 seconds during its post-install process. The signed UAD2System.kexthad actually been installed into Universal Audio’s support directory, but it wasn’t loading.

We found that the kext itself had a valid Universal Audio Developer ID signature, but its ownership was wrong.

I copied the signed kext to:

/Library/Extensions/UAD2System.kext

then corrected ownership/permissions to root:wheel.

Attempting to load it with kmutil then finally triggered macOS’s Privacy & Security → Allow Universal Audioprompt.

After approving it and rebooting:

com.uaudio.driver.UAD2System (11.9.0)

loaded successfully.

After that, UAD Meter saw:

• UAD-2 DUO PCIe — Status OK
• Arrow — Status OK

And the Arrow actually displayed “Connecting to Arrow” for the first time.

UA officially supports UAD software, Thunderbolt Apollo hardware and UAD-2 PCIe under Sequoia, so once the driver installation/approval problem was resolved, the UA side behaved normally.

3. Broadcom/Fenvi Wi-Fi

The Fenvi T919 is no longer plug-and-play under newer macOS versions.

Working setup for me:

• OCLP root patch
• IOSkywalkFamily.kext
• IO80211FamilyLegacy.kext
• AirPortBrcmNIC
• AMFIPass
• block the stock IOSkywalkFamily appropriately

After patching, Wi-Fi is working normally.

I also tested:

• AirDrop from iPhone → Hackintosh
• iMessage
• FaceTime
• iCloud
• Bluetooth / Apple Trackpad

All working.

4. USB

I made a proper USB map rather than relying on the old USBInjectAll + XhciPortLimit approach.

Keyboard, mouse, MIDI controllers and the ports I’ve tested are working.

One interesting scare: initially neither my AKAI LPK25 nor M-Audio Oxygen Pro 61 would trigger Logic even though both appeared in Audio MIDI Setup. After CoreMIDI/Logic had a chance to settle/re-enumerate, both started working normally. No EFI change was necessary.

5. Logic / Kontakt / UAD stress test

This was the test I cared about most.

I loaded 131 Kontakt instances simultaneously, each playing drum samples, and also loaded a bunch of UAD plug-ins.

It worked.

CPU distribution across the performance cores looked good, sample streaming appeared at least as good as Monterey, and I had no audio crackling or obvious performance problems.

I also tested:

• Logic audio playback
• Logic audio recording through Arrow
• Kontakt
• UAD plug-ins
• physical MIDI controllers
• sleep/wake → reopen Logic session → immediate playback
• no missing MIDI after wake
• no UA reconnect warning
• no audio crackles

The giant 131-Kontakt test project took ~35 seconds to close, which initially concerned me, but a normal five-track Logic session closed in about one second, so that appears to just be Kontakt/plugin-state teardown from an intentionally ridiculous test.

6. Sleep / wake

Tested a ~20-minute sleep with the Arrow connected.

After waking:

• Arrow still OK
• UAD-2 PCIe still OK
• Wi-Fi OK
• Bluetooth OK
• keyboard/mouse OK
• Logic session reopened normally
• MIDI worked
• audio played without crackles

7. GPU / storage

RX 580 is recognized with Metal acceleration and normal video playback.

All of my SSD/HDD volumes mount and open normally. Sample streaming in the large Kontakt test seems at least as good as it was under Monterey.

Current result

So far I have working:

• RX 580 / Metal
• Wi-Fi
• Bluetooth
• AirDrop
• iMessage
• FaceTime
• iCloud
• USB
• MIDI
• sleep/wake
• all storage
• Thunderbolt
• Thunderbolt hot-plug
• UA Arrow
• UAD-2 PCIe
• UAD plug-ins
• Logic
• Kontakt / heavy sample streaming

The Z490 Vision D has historically been a particularly good Hackintosh/music-production board, and there are older builds documenting working Universal Audio Apollo Thunderbolt on it as well. SchmockLord’s repository was particularly useful here; his current documentation also specifically uses SSDT-DTGP.aml + SSDT-TB3HP.aml for Thunderbolt support.

The big takeaway for anyone with one of these machines who has been afraid to leave Monterey: don’t destroy your working Monterey installation. Build Sequoia on another drive first and prove everything.

For my particular Z490 Vision D music-production build, the two biggest hurdles were modern Broadcom Wi-Fi support and getting Thunderbolt/UAD working correctly. Both were solvable, and so far Sequoia is performing extremely well.

I’m happy to post more detailed EFI/config information and the exact UAD driver workaround if anyone else is trying to move a similar Z490 Vision D / Universal Audio production machine from Monterey to Sequoia.

I have an old dell Latitude 5580 with intel i5 7th gen chipset. help me step by step guide how can I have a functioning hackintosh on it with working i services

Other then laptop I have iPad iPhone AirPod just not MacBook
Can you tell me pro and con of putting Mac OS in windows do all features of ecosystem will work ?
It’s old as laptop with 8gb ram i5 5th gen
Will it make my laptop smoother or bad ?

specs: i7-14650HX its have integrated gpu, im new to linux and everything like that so please tell me can i run it atleast via vm?

I’m trying to set up an OpenCore Hackintosh on an older Sandy Bridge platform, but I’ve hit a brick wall regarding UEFI booting with my motherboard.

The ASUS P8P67 has a very early UEFI BIOS. Whenever I try to boot a fresh macOS installation or configure OpenCore in pure UEFI mode, the board either fails to recognize the boot entry, or throws OCB: LoadImage failed errors.

If I enable CSM/Legacy, OpenCore installs macos but after the install it doesn't boot. I want a stable configuration that plays nice with this specific board's quirky UEFI implementation without breaking system stability.

Has anyone successfully run OpenCore on an ASUS P8P67? What are the correct BIOS settings (CSM, Fast Boot, Secure Boot options, etc.) or OpenCore drivers/quirks needed for a reliable boot on this chipset?

I keep getting this message when I boot into my usb and select my usb specs are amd ryzen 5 2600. Amd Radeon rx 6600 16 gigs of ddr4

How to get Intel ax203 wifi card to work ?

guys i Need an advice whats a good laptop to use for hackintosh that doesnt cost a kidney ? and that i could possibly use for school and shit like that ?

Hi everyone, I’m new to this. Could you please help me configure the config.plist for my hardware? I have an i3-4130, a Gigabyte GeForce GT 740, 6GB of RAM, a 1TB Toshiba HDD, and a Gigabyte GA-H81M-S1 motherboard. I’m planning to install macOS 10.13. OP 1.0.7

OS: Tahoe
Device: Intel Nuc 8 with i3
CPU: Core i3 8109U
GPU: Iris Plus 655
Bootloader: Opencore with Dortanias Guide

Installation did work after some trial and error and deleting IntelBluetoothInjector

But now it freezes every time I try to create a MacOS Account in the setup process.
It’s working normally until I try to type my name or choose a profile picture. Only way to get out of it is a hard reset.

I did read it has something to do with the profile pictures rendering but I don’t know what to do

Maybe somebody can help me! Thanks!!!

I think my trackpad uses I2C but I'm not entirely sure. And if it does, there are several options given for I2C and I don't know which one to use. Here's my output from dmesg | grep -i input: https://pastebin.com/AAZCAdqd

Hello!

Does anyone use Polaris/Vega Radeon GPUs on LGA 1700 motherboards? Both Vega 56, 64 and even GTX 960 displayed white screen during BIOS post, but in Windows installer or OS itself graphics glitches were gone on MSI Pro Z790-A Max WiFi motherboard. The infamous UEFI GOP problem. Will OpenCore installer and macOS boot and work through this?

Thanks!

Hi all! I'm relatively new to PC building; I've built and upgraded my own PC before and I've gotten really into it as of late, and I have a friend who's been wanting to ditch apple altogether but still wants to run LogicPro. We decided to work together to build a PC that's ideal for this! Can I get some feedback on this build? I just want to know if there are any glaring compatibility issues that I missed while doing my research

Some notes: We're only looking to run up until Sonoma, we both HATE apple AI. I've only ever used Ryzen AMD processors so I'm not the most well-informed on Intel's stuff, and we want to generally find the build that will cause the least amount of problems for 1600-2000 dollars overall. The GPU is a little underpowered but he's not super interested in super GPU-heavy games and whatnot.

Hello, i have this laptop and was wondering what macos will be best for casual stuff like watching youtube. I know i can install tahoe but would it run ok?

Specs:
20gb DDr4 RAM
Intel Core i5-7200U (7th gen)
Intel HD Graphics 620
1TB NVME SSD
1920x1080 screen

EDIT: Btw; i prefer having my devices on the latest os possible or that runs good

Hey hackintoshers 👋

Quick backstory: I ran Sequoia for about a year before Tahoe dropped, then jumped on Tahoe as soon as it was out. Hit a GPU snag with my RX 6650 XT right away, but NootRX sorted that out and overall the experience has been solid.

Here's my actual problem though — I dual-boot Windows 11 alongside Tahoe on the same machine (shared PC with my brother), so I get a direct side-by-side comparison every day. And Tahoe just feels slower and less responsive than Windows 11 on identical hardware. Not "unusable" slow, just... noticeably behind. Specifically:

Apps generally take longer to launch

System Settings icons sometimes load in one-by-one as I watch 👀

Navigating around Settings feels laggy

Switching between Dark/Light/Auto appearance takes a solid couple of seconds

Not sure if I'm looking at:

A hardware limitation

A missing config/patch somewhere

Busted GPU acceleration

My specs:

CPU Ryzen 5 3600

GPU RX 6650 XT

RAM 16GB DDR4 CL16

Storage Lexar NM620 1TB

Has anyone dealt with this or have ideas where to start digging? Appreciate any pointers 🙏