Running Pascal and Maxwell GPUs on Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura and Sonoma (OpenGL ONLY!)

I have noticed people on here are struggling to run Pascal and Maxwell based GPUs on macOS Big Sur and up and I just wanted to share something that I do that works every single time without fail

I have tested this with the following GPUs and had success booting with OpenGL acceleration on macOS Big Sur and up
----------Pascal Cards this patch works with----------

- GTX TITAN (Pascal)
- GTX 1080 Ti
- GTX 1080
- GTX 1070 Ti
- GTX 1070
- GTX 1060
- GTX 1050 Ti
- GTX 1050
- GT 1030
----------Maxwell Cards this patch works with----------
- GTX TITAN X
- GTX 980 Ti
- GTX 980
- GTX 970
- GTX 960
- GTX 950

. (PLEASE NOTE THAT THE VULKAN API DOES NOT WORK IF YOU USE THESE CARDS ON macOS) You

what side effects might you experience doing this running a Pascal or Maxwell GPU?

  1. Artefacts around transparency effects (don't worry, your GPU is not failing) (extremely common
  2. occasional slowdowns or kernel panics, every system is different and responds differently to this patch) (tends to happen on AMD based systems leave a comment if this happens to you if you are Intel user)
  3. weird Display issues like Pink Tint on the screen through HDMI, (you can fix this by changing your HDMI output to HDMI 1.4)
  4. low/too high refresh rates (quite uncommon but tends to happen. happened to me on my BenQ GL2460 monitor)
  5. Kernel Panics may randomly occur (This might be caused by a SMBIOS issue)

So. how do you do it? these are simple steps that you can do to get pascal or Maxwell cards to work on macOS with OpenGL support (AGAIN NO VULKAN)

PLEASE MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR EFI BEFORE YOU MAKE CHANGES TO YOUR CURRENT EFI THAT COULD POTENTIALLY CAUSE YOUR PC TO STOP BOOTING INTO MACOS

  1. go to your config.plist and enter the following boot-args
    amfi_get_out_of_my_way=0x1 agdpmod=vit9696 agdpmod=pikera ngfxcompat=0x1 ngfxgl=1 nvda_drv_vrl=1
  2. Reboot your Hackintosh and log back in. you won't have graphics yet
  3. Download OpenCore Legacy Patcher and install it. link: https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/releases/download/1.4.3/OpenCore-Patcher-GUI.app.zip
  4. Run the program but if you get stopped by a unverified developer warning then go to settings > Privacy and security and run it anyway.
  5. when the app opens. you will notice at the top that your PC/Motherboard will be identified at the top, for me it says ''A320M-H'' because I'm running a Ryzen Hackintosh. Press the button that says ''Post-Install Root Patch''
  6. after pressing. a box with come up. and if you see a blue box that says ''Start Root Patching'' press it and enter your password, let it do it's thing and follow what it says while its doing it's thing
  7. reboot your Hackintosh and you should be good to go and have working Graphics

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