MSI GS66 Strange Graphics *Click of Death* Crashing Bug & Other Issues

MSI GS66 Strange Graphics *Click of Death* Crashing Bug & Other Issues

Laptop Specs

- i7-10750H (UHD 630)

- RTX 2080 Super Max-Q (HARD DISABLED)

- 32 GB Dual Channel DDR4 2666MHz

- MSI GS66 (10SGS-036)

- ALC298 (NEED HELP FOR THIS TOO; Misc Issue)\*

- Intel® Ethernet (HAVE NOT TESTED) + Intel® Wi-Fi 6 AX201(2*2 ax) (WORKING) w/ Bluetooth 5.0 (HAVE NOT TESTED)

- OpenCore

- Catalina 10.15.7

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Main Issue:

When I open ANY image (ie any format) in preview, it opens but if I click the image itself, preview immediately crashes every single time without fail.

https://reddit.com/link/pgzyht/video/cjs1os58a8l71/player

Likewise, attempting to change the mac account picture crashes system preferences and opening photoshop gives a black screen. Same thing happens even if I drag a photo over the icon or use scripts to try and change the admin photo via terminal (the scripts, despite claiming to be successful, even caused temporary kernel panics which sorted themselves out; image remained unchanged).

The Contacts app also crashes when attempting to change ANY contact photo, be it by clicking or dragging a photo.

https://reddit.com/link/pgzyht/video/y9zmailaa8l71/player

https://preview.redd.it/blahtxfba8l71.jpg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e4e8928b6cc72bf270ca8756c9b197c38d575a68

Photoshop preferences also have '??' throughout the GPU info section, something like "GPU: ??630 ??H?D?" despite the information in 'About This Mac' being correctly recognised (see below). I also cannot change these photoshop settings as they are greyed out.

~~ No screenshot of photoshop preferences as it is almost always locked out when starting it up and the one time I managed to open it, I forgot to take a screenshot ~~

About This Mac Info:

https://preview.redd.it/nvb3l8sma8l71.png?width=229&format=png&auto=webp&s=08ffdafccb6b70b4dbf1f75ec6cf75cdb598a9ee

https://preview.redd.it/2qkdfd6na8l71.png?width=235&format=png&auto=webp&s=faa812316fc0c32868c20d146e40737cab8a8bb8

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VDADecoderChecker states Hardware acceleration is fully supported and VideoProc shows that HEVC IS supported. I verified the H.265 hardware acceleration by using Handbrake to encode a sample file with the option H.265 (VideoToolbox), which was successful.

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Safari is also virtually unusable and crashes on 99% of webpages, forcing constant reloads (though other browsers seem fine) .

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Misc Issues:

- Audio (ALC 298) alcid=29 works perfectly via audio jack but NO output via speakers; alcid=11 works perfectly on speakers but DISTORTED audio via audio jack. Any way to get the best of both worlds?

https://preview.redd.it/avka4vzcg8l71.png?width=710&format=png&auto=webp&s=91a1df518e006ce2dbe79dcc493d751c422576d8

- Fn + Sound Keys WORK but other Fn keys (eg brightness, backlight...) do NOT work despite the patches below

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Other Info:

- USBs are fully / properly patched via USBToolBox method

- DGPU is set to off on first boot-up (ie without allowing the machine to sleep then wake)

- Catalina version is 10.15.7; have not installed security update (2021-004)

- Infrequent / pretty rare kernel panic on boot every now and again; restart fixes it

- itlwm.kext (rarely) does not load, breaking heliport for that specific boot; restart fixes it

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EFI Folder Structure:

https://preview.redd.it/mg8fvwlid8l71.png?width=624&format=png&auto=webp&s=85c048a0711bcf7020139ab79b821c52ea2d0473

https://preview.redd.it/dcmwv10jd8l71.png?width=585&format=png&auto=webp&s=bbaafdc5019253af2f46c670761dc1f74b12b7fa

Comment: I tried building my own EFI from the ground up for days but got stuck on a black screen. Ended up starting with the EFI of another user (Denver) who had the same machine which enabled me to initiate the install before reverse engineering, modifying, and making adjustments of my own.

Hence, I'm unsure whether the OpenCore bootloader configuration files are correct / redundant but have been reluctant to touch anything to do with them for fear of messing anything up.

Nevertheless, I've slowly been trying to clean everything up (eg patching the USBs properly, removing some GPU info from my plist as I read that WhateverGreen supports the 630 UHD pretty much out of the box...).

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Any and all input highly appreciated! I'm a Hackintosh noob hahah

I've tried to be as thorough as possible but may have missed some details so feel free to ask for anything specific and I can add the info on to this post :)

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Debug of latest Boot (Kernel and OC txt files)

https://github.com/Necromancer2Point0/OpenCore-Debug-Latest-Log

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