XFX R9 390 Post-installation Issues — macOS 10.12.6
benmehart
Hello! I am having problems trying to get my R9 390 to function normally inside macOS Sierra.
I have just installed macOS on my pc (specs down below) and my GPU has three main issues:
- Only 7MB of vram is showing up in system report
- Only one display is receiving proper signal. I have 3 identical 1080p monitors that I would like to use with my hack. One receives normal input (this is always the one connected via HDMI), second monitor only mirrors the first, and the third doesn’t receive any signal. Both the second and third monitors are connected via DVI using the DVI to HDMI (passive) adapters that were included in with my video card.
- 3d acceleration is not working. I’m assuming this because I have the non-transparent dock and annomations seem overall sluggish. (mission control and especially launchpad)
I’m new to actually getting a hackintosh up and running. My troubles probably stem from having an AMD card and being incompetent with multibeast, clover, clover configurator, and getting hackintosh drivers to work. I have tried a couple of things but nothing has worked so far and if I need to reinstall macOS, it wouldn’t be too big of a deal.
Here is my system info and hackintosh specs:
PC Specs:
Intel i5-6600K @stock 3.50GHz
16GB of 2400MHz RAM
Asus z170 Pro gaming
XFX nitro R9 390
benmehart
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Hello! I am having problems trying to get my R9 390 to function normally inside macOS Sierra.
I have just installed macOS on my pc (specs down below) and my GPU has three main issues:
- Only 7MB of vram is showing up in system report
- Only one display is receiving proper signal. I have 3 identical 1080p monitors that I would like to use with my hack. One receives normal input (this is always the one connected via HDMI), second monitor only mirrors the first, and the third doesn’t receive any signal. Both the second and third monitors are connected via DVI using the DVI to HDMI (passive) adapters that were included in with my video card.
- 3d acceleration is not working. I’m assuming this because I have the non-transparent dock and annomations seem overall sluggish. (mission control and especially launchpad)
I’m new to actually getting a hackintosh up and running. My troubles probably stem from having an AMD card and being incompetent with multibeast, clover, clover configurator, and getting hackintosh drivers to work. I have tried a couple of things but nothing has worked so far and if I need to reinstall macOS, it wouldn’t be too big of a deal.
PC Specs:
Intel i5-6600K @stock 3.50GHz
16GB of 2400MHz RAM
Asus z170 Pro gaming
XFX nitro R9 390
benmehart
justr
R9 390 (and 290) have a host of issues in Sierra (and lesser extent El Capitan. which is why I’m still there). Adding multiple displays makes the problem harder.
1. Only the 290x/390x variant is «officially» supported, so you often needs to trick the system into thinking it’s using such a card by changing the ID. You can do this with clover/configurator. Then, hopefully, you don’t have to tinker too much to get the right connectors owrking.
2. Even if you get this working, you have to find a way to avoid getting a blackscreen after the Apple logo. Methods around this include setting the iGPU to primary (meaning you boot up to that point with no display active), or using a helper GPU that is supported (like a $30 Nvidia), or using the Lilu etc kexts to boot without iGPU (which I haven’t read much success on using Hawaii 290/390(x)).
You might consider El Capitan, which is easier to avoid the blackscreen issue on. Or waiting to see what comes about when High Sierra is released, which at least offers better support for some AMD GPUs. You could get an Nvidia card that can be used with Web Drivers easily downloaded (though you get less power in such things as FCPX), or wait for HSierra and look to get Vega, which seems well supported.
In any case, Hawaii is a rabbit hole of trouble in Hackintosh— and made worse with the non-X variants. On the other hand, it’s a hell of a powerful card for things like FCPX, and has some compute resources even the latest more powerful cards lack.
benmehart
Thanks for the advice @justr
Personally, I’m a Creative Cloud user so I’d need nvidia anyway. I mostly care about having three monitors for macOS on the relative cheap. I’ll give that a try and see what happens but right now, a gtx 1050 looks pretty good (especially with all of the stinking bitcoin mining)
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R9 390 mac os
My Personal Hackintosh Build
Current MacOS: Mojave (v10.14) Clover Version: 2.4k r4895
- Processor: Intel i7-7700k Processor
- GPU: MSI R9 390
- Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270-E
- RAM: 32GB DDR4 G.Skill Ripjaws V Series
- Full List Here
- iGPU Enabled
- Multi-Monitor with iGPU powering secondary
- VirtualSMC
- Hardware Acceleration Enabled
- 240hz and 144hz Display
- AHCI_Intel_Generic_SATA — v0.4
- AppleALC — v1.3.5
- CodecCommander — v2.7.1
- GenericUSBXHCI — v1.2.11
- HibernationFixup — v1.2.4
- IntelMausiEthernet — v2.4.0
- Lilu — v1.3.4
- NullCPUPowerManagement — v1.0.0d2
- SMCProcessor — v1.0.2
- SMCSuperIO — v1.0.2
- USBInjectAll — v0.7.1
- VirtualSMC — v1.0.2
- WhateverGreen — v1.2.6
- intelhaxm — v7.3.0
- realtekALC — v2.0-toledaALC-130
- ApfsDriverLoader-64
- AppleImageLoader-64
- AptioInputFix-64
- AptioMemoryFix-64
- AudioDxe-64
- DataHubDxe-64
- FSInject-64
- Fat-64
- HFSPlus-64
- NTFS-64
- PartitionDxe-64
- UsbKbDxe-64
- VirtualSmc
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Hackintosh Build with i7-7700k, AMD R9 390 + iGPU enabled for Multi Monitor on macOS Mojave
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Question: Q: R9 390 Mac Pro mid 2010 compatibility
I think that the title says it all already, but anyways.
Is the new R9 390 compatible with the Mid 2010 Mac Pro (5,1) running Yosemite 10.10.3?
Im thinking about making an upgrade and if this one is not compatible, I will be going with the R9 290x from Saphire. That should be solve my R9 290 not running on Yosemite, problem.
Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4), Intel Xeon 3,3GHZ AMD Radeon R9 290
Posted on Jul 15, 2015 4:48 AM
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Yes. If is not flashed for Mac nothing will show on the screen until the drivers load and thus Recovery mode and some other startup keys options are not useful since you can’t see the screen
Jul 15, 2015 8:52 AM
So what you are saying is that it is NOT compatible out of the box and only if it is flashed?
Jul 15, 2015 8:56 AM
If not flashed for a Mac nothing will show on the screen until the drivers are loaded.
Jul 15, 2015 9:01 AM
You are not being clear. Will it work if I put the card inside my mac and turn it on?
Jul 15, 2015 9:08 AM
Yes it will work, if you put it inside your mac, hook up its power cables, plug a monitor into it and turn it on. you won’t see a picture on your screen until the video drivers are loaded. So if something goes wrong with your Mac and you need to see stuff on the screen to diagnose and fix a a problem, such as which hard drive to choose to boot from, then you could have a bit of a problem. However, if you can live without it, go for it
Jul 15, 2015 9:44 AM
No. It works if there are drivers, and drivers get loaded at point after the kernel is loaded, generally where login happens.
Jul 15, 2015 11:05 AM
So the reason my R9 290 did not work is because there are no controllers. Because the same thing as you described, happens, but osx does not boot. ever. even having the black screen on for ages, nothing comes on afterwards
Jul 15, 2015 12:28 PM
My card is locked, flashing it did not solve this problem
Jul 15, 2015 12:32 PM
What do you mean by locked?
If you insert a Mac flashed card does it boot?
Try booting with everything disconnected except monitor, mouse and keyboard, and power plug.
Remove all HDs except startup drive, all USB devices other than mouse and KB, all PCle cards except graphics card, all FW devices
Jul 15, 2015 12:52 PM
Lock meaning I cant flash it.
I wouldn’t know since I have only one card (R9 290) and Im already booted up in Windows. My last card worked fine OTB (GTX 670). I have a BootCamp and cant really leave it to go to the Mac side in fear of not being able to get back to Windows.
Overall, Im stuck in Windows with a Card that turns my screen black when I try the Mac side and after various minutes, nothing shows up on (booting on Mac side)
Jul 16, 2015 10:53 AM
You need to flash the card, it’s not so easy, but there are some tutorial in Internet, just type in Google and «voila»!
Just more one thing, the beta-version of El Capitan is totally compatible, this does mean that next OS of Apple, you will have a big and powerful card — Congratulations! Amazing. Unfortunately, I have old Mac Pro 1.1 and I can not have this pleasure. 🙂
Jul 23, 2015 12:52 AM
I have sold my R9 290 because I could not wait for El Capitan. I have a new GTX 970 EVGA Superclocked and for my surprise, it also does not boot up, gives me a black screen. I have already installed the Web Drivers for 10.10.4 and made sure that the driver manager is set to load web divers, but nothing. Now what?
Aug 4, 2015 5:21 AM
What happens when you have both the 970 and a Mac card installed?
You do have the necessary power connector connected to the 970, right?
Aug 4, 2015 8:42 AM
If a video card is not specifically labelled as Mac compatible then this almost certainly means it does not have Mac compatible firmware as standard. This does not mean it will not work, it means that it will not show anything until the Mac has finished booting and loaded the drivers needed to use it. Until it has finished booting and loaded the drivers you just get a blank screen. This also me ans you have to have the right drivers installed on the Mac before fitting the card.
For Nvidia cards like the GTX 980 you need to yourself download and install the drivers before fitting the Nvidia card. The latest Nvidia drivers which are needed for the GTX 980 and 970 only work with Yosemite.
For AMD cards like the Radeon 7950, the Radeon 7970, the R9 280, and the R9 390 the drivers are only available from Apple and will only be included in a version of OS X that post-dates the video card. So the Radeon 7950 and 7970 are now quite old cards and Apple added drivers for them a long time ago — I believe this was with OS X 10.8.3. The R9 390 will likely require a much newer OS X version.
It is possible to ‘flash’ both Nvidia and AMD cards to add Mac firmware. With Mac firmware you will see something on screen as soon as you turn the computer on, and you will then also see the boot process.
For the Nvidia GTX 980 and 970, you need to get a company called MacVidCards to do this for you — see http://www.macvidcards.com/store/c2/Nvidia_GPUs.html
For AMD video cards like the Radeon 7950, 7970, the R9 280 and the R9 390 you can in theory do-it-yourself. This involves using utilities in Windows and could be done in a ‘real’ PC but most often is done using Boot Camp. It maybe that you need to have a second older properly Mac compatible video card fitted at the same time to use while flashing the new card.
So as has been said many, many times in these forums, if you just buy an off the shelf video card it will initially not show anything on a Mac until you have the drivers loaded which presumes you have the drivers already installed.
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[Success] El Capitan Install — i7 4790K — AMD R9 390 — MSI Z97 Gaming 5
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Hi all,
After some trouble trying to install El Capitan on my PC, i’ve figured out how to get it fullyworking.
PC Components:
- Motherboard: MSI z97 Gaming 5
- CPU: Intel i7-4790K 4.0GHz
- GPU: AMD R9 390 8GB
- RAM: Patriot Viper 8GB (2x4GB)
How to install:
This installation was pretty easy, i just followed the official Tonymacx86’s guide on How to install OSX El Capitan using Unibeast, and now i tell you exactly what i’ve done:
- I partitioned the USB as the guide says (IMPORTANT — It MUST be 16GB or larger, 8GB don’t work)
- Next, i used Unibeast to make it bootable (using in the app as bootloader configuration UEFI Boot Mode, and NOTHING in Graphic options), then continue and install. *NOTE: It will take some time (for me more than 40 minutes) it seems stuck doing nothing, but don’t touch anything, let it do his work.
- When the install finished, unplug the usb.
- Now restart the PC in BIOS menu (done by pressing del key when the msi dragon appears on boot) and go to OC Settings — CPU Features — Disable Intel VT-dand OC Settings — CPU Features — Disable CFG lock
- Now plug in the OSX USB and Boot from it. At the Clover bootloader choose Boot Mac OS X from USB and install it.
- When finished, it will reboot. At the Clover Bootloader now choose Boot Mac OSX from Mac OSX (for me its «Mac OSX» because i called my HDD «Mac OSX» in the previous steps)
- Do all the stuff to setup the OS and when you finally finish the settings you can use OSX.
Post Installation:
First, Download Multibeast for El Capitan and start it. You have to select this options:
— Quick Start > UEFI Boot Mode
— Drivers > Audio > Realtek ALCxxx > ALC1150
— Drivers > Network > Atheros > AtherosE2200Ethernet v2.0.1
Then go to Build, and press «Install»
Once you have done, download EFI Mounter v3 and start it, it will show the EFI partition in the desktop.
Now download Clover Configurator and start it, then with it, open the config.plist located in EFI/EFI/CLOVER/config.plist.
Go to the Devices section and, in the ATI FakeID box (the first in the top-left corner) insert «0x67B01002» without quotes, then go to the Graphics section and check «Inject ATI», then in the same section, in the FB Name box, write «Radeon» without quotes.
Now in the menu bar, go to file > save, then close Clover Configurator.
Now just restart your PC and pretty everything will be alright. To make the audio work, go in the system settings, under sound, and select as output device Internal Speakers (i don’t know if this is the correct name, i have OSX in Italian, so i think it may be similar to this).
Now you have a fully working Hackintosh, with audio, internet connection, and a working AMD R9 390 graphic card!
Credits:
— Obviously thanks to Tonymacx86 for the original basic guide and hard work
— marcktor, that provided the method i used to get the R9 390 to work with full RAM in this reddit post
— Clover team
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