I made another post about my machine having issues with OCLP, being very sluggish, but I’ll try to summarize everything more concisely here since I haven’t been able to fix any of my issues.
-Bought a 17 inch from 2011 for cheap
-It seems to not have been used at all in the past 15 years, it’s in almost out-of-the-box condition
-GPU works perfectly, still, but will be disabling with gSwitch
-ALL hardware is in perfectly working condition, actually - nothing to trigger the missing hardware throttling
-I upgraded Ram to 16gb recently, also an SSD of course and re-pasted it (didn’t fix anything)
-It behaves as if there was no graphics acceleration, even though transparency, GPU and built-in-display are all recognized - Opening Launchpad takes like 5 seconds and moving windows around is choppy
-Essentially what I’m seeing is this https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenCoreLegacyPatcher/comments/19f6wz5/my_macbook_pro_from_late_2011_i_think_i_very_slow/ (You can tell the guy has transparency enabled too so everything was installed properly)
-It does this with ALL unsupported macOS’s: Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura, Sonoma, Sequoia
-It strangely even did the same thing with Dosdude1’s Catalina Patcher for some reason, but runs High Sierra, Windows and Ubuntu perfectly fine and as it should
-YES, root patches have been applied multiple times, I’m not stupid please stop asking
-One time I installed Monterey and downgraded OCLP to 0.6.8 and that seemed to fix ALL my issues, it was working perfectly, but I decided to test the same trick with other macOS’s and it never worked again (Even returning to Monterey and following the same steps, I don’t know how or why)
-Ran SilentKnight and it said the EFI firmware was outdated so I updated it, but it also didn’t fix anything
-Currently on Ventura but likely will update to latest if I’m able to fix this
-Ran "top -o cpu" and WindowServer seems to be jumping to 140% usage (wtf) every time anything moves on the screen
-I just tried playing a YouTube video as-is and it froze the entire system
-I would dare saying that the machine is more responsive BEFORE applying root patches with zero graphics acceleration when nothing but the system is installed, this is NOT NORMAL
And as I said, this only happens when running OpenCore (and Catalina patcher for some reason), every other supported system is very happy with the hardware and snappy, I’m just not a Linux guy and I don’t like how the trackpad behaves with Bootcamp Drivers. I also cannot run the programs I need on High Sierra So that’s not an option either.
Any help very much appreciated. This is literally my dream laptop and I’m super depressed it’s not playing well with OCLP.
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