Hi all,

Ive managed to set up mac os monterey on a late 2009 27inch imac, however ive noticed after around 20mins the keyboard stops working.

The only way to resolve the issue is to unplug/replug it into the usb port.

Does anyone know how to solve this issue?

I occasionally search to see if there is any news of a Tahoe update for OCLP, and today I found this coming up - I've used OCLP for years but don’t trust my knowledge of these things enough to know how legit this is likely to be .. .

https://github.com/YBronst/OCLP-Plus

Hello friends, first of all, my device is a Macbook Pro 2011 A1278 with an i5 2nd generation, 16GB RAM, 240GB SSD, and 500GB HDD. However, it has Mac OS 10.7.5 and I can't do anything with it. I can't install any other files or software. I also have a Windows device and a USB flash drive, but I can't do anything because I haven't enabled OPCL. Please help urgently.

So I updated a 2013 iMac 27" to run macOS Sonoma. Used external Sata SSD for macOS Sonoma. Had trouble with installation while previous operating system on internal mechanical hard disk drive was present. Once previous system was deleted, I was able fully install macOS Sonoma on the SSD and migrated User's account. Ran Time Machine backup to external WD passport drive. iMac boot fine without backup being attached. Any recommendations to fix? TIA!

Hi everyone,

I’m reaching out because I’m at my wits' end with my Mac Pro 6,1 (Late 2013) running OCLP. I love this machine, but the experience has become a "karma" of instability. Here are my specs:

• Model: Mac Pro 6,1 (Trashcan)
• CPU: Intel Xeon (Standard)
• RAM: 48 GB
• GPU: Dual AMD FirePro D500
• OS: macOS Sonoma (currently using OCLP 2.4.1)

The Issues:

1. Visual Glitches: Chrome and other Electron-based apps show "red blocks" or artifacts.
2. General Lag: The UI feels heavy, windows stutter, and there is a noticeable delay when opening apps.
3. Stability: The system becomes unresponsive during hardware-intensive tasks (like running local LLMs via Ollama).

What I’ve Tried So Far:

• Updated to the latest OCLP (2.4.1) and re-applied Root Patches.
• Attempted to disable one of the GPUs using -wegnoegpu in boot-args, but I ran into "Error setting variable not permitted" (SIP issue) and UI limitations within the OCLP app (the NVRAM tab or Advanced settings aren't showing as expected).
• I work remotely on this machine, so physical intervention (like removing a GPU) is a high-effort/high-risk last resort.

My Questions for the Experts:

1. Is there a specific stable OCLP version or configuration known to work better with the dual D500s?
2. How can I properly disable one of the GPUs in OCLP 2.4.1 specifically for this model to test if one card is failing?
3. Are the "Red Chrome" glitches a known driver issue with Metal translation on Sonoma for these specific AMD cards?
4. Should I give up on Sonoma/Sequoia and revert to Monterey (Native) to maintain stability for local AI (Ollama) work?

I really want to keep this Mac Pro alive, but I need it to be a reliable workstation. Any advice from fellow 6,1 owners or OCLP devs would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

I have a MacBook Pro mid 2009 13 inch with 8 gb ram and 256 gb ssd I installed Big Sur through open core but I downloaded the installer from google then I made an Oclp bootable drive the problem I face is that it doesn’t sleep when I close the screen

Hi all,

I'm trying to install Ventura on my mid 2011 27" iMac, modded with an i7 and a metal GPU.

This has happened several times now, I have tried erasing the installer and reinstalling a few times and each time, the install of Ventura stops with 'About 14 minutes remaining'.

Has anyone else experienced this?

It ran Ventura on OCLP for about 2 weeks, before the original GPU broke! It's been on Monterey OCLP for about 6 months no issues, I needed to upgrade for some software compatibility.

Should I try a different method, or just wait it out to see if anything happens? Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

P.s. it's not even that the installation has stopped, I think the Mac crashes?? The Mac is frozen, mouse doesn't move etc.. I've seen a post on here with someone having the same problem but with Sonoma, and it worked for them after a few hours of waiting, but I dont know if their Mac was frozen like mine!

I recently got macOS Monterey running well using OCLP on my Mid-2010 Mac Pro 5,1 on its own drive. I have two other discrete boot drives running native OSX versions (one running Mojave, the other Mountain Lion). I needed to set things up this way, as there are still projects I can only run correctly on the respective older loadouts, and I didn't want to overcomplicate things using partitions, since I have 4 bays on the MP.

All was running fine, with a few manageable quirks, until I made a truly naive and silly mistake. I got greedy, thinking it would be nice to be able to access all three drives on the Mac Pro (+ a separate storage drive) remotely over wifi from my Macbook Pro. Initially the MBP could only access the Monterey user folders, not the user folders on the other two. So I did the dumbest thing and adjusted permissions for those drives from the Monterey File Sharing screen, even going as far as choosing the more aggressive "apply permissions to enclosed items." Predictably this totally messed up the permissions on the two native drives. Thankfully, I can still access the files on the drives just fine from Monterey (doing a CCC backup of both currently, which I clearly should have done before all this--having only made backups of the important files themselves). But neither drive will fully boot properly. Currently, the Mojave drive will boot and allow me to login, but Finder hangs as soon as my dock and desktop icons load, and then freezes up continuously each time it relaunches. The Mountain Lion drive won't complete a boot at all -- hanging on the apple logo with a continuous spinning load status indicator.

Here's what I've tried so far to restore the Mojave drive (I haven't tried to tackle the Mountain Lion drive, as I expect that will be more difficult to restore--if at all possible, and I want to be extra careful before I start that process, since the loadout is more precious to me).

1. Ran recovery mode, but post-open core install, the only recovery mode I can access is Monterey. Nonetheless, I ran first aid via disk utility on the Mojave drive. It didn't find any issues but nothing was improved.
2. Thinking I likely messed up root permissions on the Mojave drive, tried to restore root ownership via series of chown terminal commands on Mojave system folders, user folder, and private folder.
3. Also moved and renamed Mojave's finder preferences file, and removed lock flags. None of these fixed the problems. Mojave still boots and lets me login, but immediately hangs when Finder gets going.

Since these didn't seem to make a difference, I expect what I did was screw up more than just the permissions, but also the drives' Access Control Lists. I'm unsure how one is supposed to restore those with minimal impact.

Can anyone make any suggestions for next steps? Here are my next two ideas, but I wanted to get some input from people who know more than I do before I moved any further forward:

• Remove the OCLP Monterey disk to try to boot into Mojave's own recovery mode (worried this might cause an infinite boot loop, or something else unintended), or just not work. Also not sure what I should do if and when I get in: First Aid again? something else?
• Boot Mojave installer from USB and run a reinstall, keeping my files intact, but refreshing all the system files. I'm worried this will still mess with the loadout leading to old software no longer functioning, but maybe I'm past that point anyway. Does anyone know if doing this is even likely to actually fix the broken permissions/ACLs on the rest of the drive? I'm also worried that running the Mojave installer again will mess with my firmware and prevent me from getting back into OCLP Monterey, but hopefully that isn't likely since I was already running the right firmware to be be able to install Mojave (i.e., will a reinstall even touch the firmware?)

If I can get Mojave up and running properly again, I'd be really glad, but I'd be even more thrilled if I could also get Mountain Lion restored, as that's the older loadout with a far more important loadout with files that can't be opened with newer OS (e.g., 32bit Logic projects, etc). If anyone has suggestions for the best way to approach the Mountain Lion drive, I'd appreciate that tremendously as well. I've been extra cautious with that one as I don't want to make the problem worse than it already is.

Also, if folks have suggestions for other subs or forums to crosspost this to, I'm eager to cast as wide a net as possible.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Hi

I installed MacOS Monetary using OpenCore patcher but the camera is now NOT detected at all in the system report. It is saying "No video capture devices were found." and of course the facetime is not working.

There are no root patches available to install.

Macbook model:

MacbookPro11,2

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)

Thanks

Regards

Michael

I've been running a Mac Pro 3,1 on Sonoma since Jan 2024 and OpenCore Legacy Patcher 1.3.0.

Since the beginning I've experienced two major issues but I've mostly changed my workflow around them, one is the Mac Pro cannot sleep anymore and just enters a weird state and sometimes freezes. The other which wasn't much of a problem until now is that my FireWire 400 ports do not work at all. Plugging an iPod or iSight into any of them (including the ones on my Cinema HD Display) causes the devices either to not respond at all or crash the Mac Pro, requiring a restart. This is what System Information reports about the device:

Unknown Device:

Maximum Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec

Connection Speed: Unknown

Things changed and I kind of need to use the FireWire 400 ports now so I'm hoping there's a way for this to be fixed. Thanks in advance.

Hi guys, i am using an OLCP Sequoia Macbook Pro 2015 with Dual GPUS Hackintosh, from the official OLCP page i think? and most games crash, roblox crashes etc. the issue its giving me is AMDTLBronze Driver is crashing and forcing GPUS doesnt work. Please Help

I have a 2017 intel iMac and am wondering how to run Bootcamp alongside Opencore Legacy Patcher. In the past I have had opencore running with Sonoma, however could not get Bootcamp to partition and work. I'm aware there are some guides on doing this, however with my version of Mac the option to launch bootcamp was not available, it simply would not work.
I haven't been able to find guides that launch bootcamp outside of the bootcamp window which doesn't appear for me... I don't know if I'm looking in the wrong place tho so wanted ask for help here!

Since bootcamp uses the EFI bootloader is there any way at all to get both working at the same time?

I previously tried running windows off the dortania guides, creating a windows usb and using virtual boxes but none have worked for me and have since wiped my drive and started fresh.

I currently have a clean Ventura OS - I have bootcamp set up and working but no OCLP yet.
TLDR: how can I keep my windows bootcamp partition when installing OCLP again or is there a way to use bootcamp after OCLP is installed?

Any guides would be appreciated!

I wanted to reinstall mac os through Option+Command+R. I did what the guide says (erase disk) and now when i click reinstall mac os it says "Installation requires downloading important content. That content can't be downloaded at this time. Try again later." I later realised it said reinstall Big Sur (which my macbook doesnt support, that's why i used opencore) Wifi works and i'm connected through ethernet. Only later did i realise that my mac doesn't support internet recovery. I don't want to go to apple support because they will tell me to buy a new macbook or scream at me for using opencore. I don't have an alternative macbook but i can make a mac os vm. Please help.

Hi

i upgraded my iMac 2011 with 16gb ram, an ssd and a nvidia k1100m.

The GPU is flashed Open core patcher has done the root patches, but now the whole computer is laggy.
What should i do?
Best regards

I have a MacBook Pro 2015. What happened was I need to install Mac OS 14 for a project, but after that I decided to wipe the disk and reinstall Mac OS 12. But when I try to do anything (for example bootcamp or look for a usb) I see that oclp is still installed on my MacBook because it appears as a boot option. I’ve tried to reset nvram and to wipe and first aid the disk. But nothing has made oclp go away. So what do I do?

https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/releases/download/2.4.1/OpenCore-Patcher.pkg https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/releases/download/2.4.1/AutoPkg-Assets.pkg https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/releases/download/2.4.1/OpenCore-Patcher-Uninstaller.pkg (Thanks to Dortania for releasing the builds and this version of OCLP. As always, you need a USB Drive that has more than 20+GB of storage. It may take 30+ minutes on slower USB Drives, as mentioned in the all of the OCLP apps. This is the sweet spot for OCLP. This is not a beta build. It is safe to use.) Here is the OCLP-Mod Downloads Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenCoreLegacyPatcher/comments/1sp5q9k/oclpmod_319_downloads_idk_why_its_chinese/ and here is the OCLP-Plus Downloads Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenCoreLegacyPatcher/comments/1sp4t9j/oclpplus_320_downloads/ )

https://github.com/laobamac/OCLP-Mod/releases/download/3.1.9/OCLP-Mod.pkghttps://github.com/laobamac/OCLP-Mod/releases/download/3.1.9/AutoPkg-Assets.pkghttps://github.com/laobamac/OCLP-Mod/releases/download/3.1.9/OCLP-Mod-Uninstaller.pkg

This is also a beta release and may cause problems (Especially in macOS Tahoe.). Thanks to Iaobamac for the Mod Release. As always (again), you need a USB Drive that has more than 20+GB of storage. It may take 30+ Minutes on slower USB Drives, as mentioned in all the OCLP apps. Note that even if your Mac has a different main language, it will display as Chinese.

https://github.com/YBronst/OCLP-Plus/releases/download/3.2.0/OCLP-Plus.pkg https://github.com/YBronst/OCLP-Plus/releases/download/3.2.0/AutoPkg-Assets.pkg https://github.com/YBronst/OCLP-Plus/releases/download/3.2.0/OCLP-Plus-Uninstaller.pkg

Please be aware that this is a beta release and may cause problems. (Especially in macOS Tahoe, which is supported.)

As per title, Moved from Sequoia 15.7.4 to 15.7.5 and from Safari 26.3 to 26.4.

Anyone else experienced the same? How to resolve?

Tried already to remove and reinstall the patches, install them a second time, reset the Mac by unplugging the power cord for 15+ sec, messed around with Energy parameters and also changed FeatureUnlock from Partial to Disabled. Tried also to switch the monitor off straight after putting in Stop, and even before. Nothing really helped.

My current config: CPU 4-cores, D300, SSD OWC 2TB, 64 GB RAM, Cinema Display HD 30". No changes here pre-/post-OS upgrade.

Thanks in advance for your help!

What os should I put on my iMac since Mac OS 12 is out of support