With the forth coming release of OpenCore Legacy Patcher v0.5.0, systems with legacy Metal GPUs will finally be able to achieve graphics acceleration in macOS Ventura!
- Reminder: These patches are still in beta and in active development. Stay on Monterey if you're not comfortable with the trade offs listed
GPU Models
Supported GPU models include:
- Intel:
- Ivy Bridge (HD4000)
- Haswell (HD4400/4600/5xxx)
- Broadwell (HD6xxx)
- Skylake (HD5xx)
- Nvidia:
- Kepler (GTX 6xx, GTX 7xx)
- AMD:
- GCN 1-3 (HD 7xxx/8xxx/9xxx, R7/R9, FirePro D300, D500, D700)
- Polaris (RX 4xx/5xx) - (Hosts lacking AVX2.0)
- Polaris (Radeon Pro 4xx/5xx) - (MacBookPro13,3/14,3)
- Vega (RX 56/64/VII) - (Hosts lacking AVX2.0)
Note: MacBookPro14,3 tested to be exempt of all graphical issues listed below.
Sample Units
Sequoia issues
| Issues |
Severity |
Affected Models |
Potential Fix/Work-Around |
| "Sequoia" Metal dynamic wallpaper wallpaper won't render properly |
Non-Functional |
Nvidia Kepler GPUs |
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| Software Update stalling with a spinning circle |
Non-Functional |
NVIDIA Kepler GPUs |
Use command line to update |
Sonoma+ issues
| Issues |
Severity |
Affected Models |
Potential Fix/Work-Around |
| Some Metal apps crashing or rendering empty |
Non-Functional |
MacBookPro11,5 and iMac15,1 |
Downgrade to macOS Ventura |
| Photos app failing to edit portrait photos |
Non-Functional |
Intel Ivy-Haswell iGPUs and Nvidia Kepler GPUs |
Downgrade to macOS Ventura |
| Safari failing to reproduce DRM content |
Non-Functional |
All non-native GPUs (except MacBookPro14,3) |
Use a third-party browser |
| Paravirtualized Graphics is unavailable |
Non-Functional |
Intel Ivy-Haswell iGPUs and Nvidia Kepler GPUs |
Downgrade to Ventura |
Ventura+ issues
| Issues |
Severity |
Affected Models |
Potential Fix/Work-Around |
| No hardware decoding on AMD Vega GPUs |
Non-Functional |
AMD Vega (RX 56/64/VII) |
Downgrade to macOS Monterey |
| Broken Live Text |
Non-Functional |
Intel Ivy, Haswell iGPUs and Nvidia Kepler GPUs (portions require Metal 2) |
Use 3rd party OCR software |
| Black Screen on external GPUs if internal GPU is AMD Legacy GCN |
Semi-Functional |
AMD Legacy GCN + AMD Polaris eGPU |
Render on different display |
| Metal's Mesh Shader feature set not available |
Non-Functional |
All non-native GPUs (except MacBookPro14,3) |
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| GeForceGLDriver Crashing |
Non-Functional |
Nvidia Kepler GPUs |
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Cosmetic issues
| Issues |
Severity |
Affected Models |
Potential Fix/Work-Around |
| Native Metal 3 eGPUs may report as Metal 2 |
Cosmetic |
Haswell iGPUs |
Has no effect on driver feature set |
| Interface Build UI may become corrupted |
Semi-Functional |
Nvidia Kepler with Intel iGPU |
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| Green Artifacts on QuickTime Timeline for .mov |
Cosmetic |
Intel Ivy and Haswell iGPUs |
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| Artifacts on Cropped Screen recording |
Non-Functional |
Nvidia Kepler |
Record fullscreen, crop afterwards |
- Notes:
- AMD GCN 1-3 issues are also applicable if your GPU is AMD Polaris and CPU lacks AVX2.0, e.g. MacPro3,1 - 5,1 and some select iMacs with upgradable GPUs. Additionally MacBookPro13,3 due to missing framebuffer.
- Due to Apple's merge of on-disk binaries into the dyld_shared_cache, we're reliant on the DCSE project to extract binaries.
Resolved issues
| Issues |
Severity |
Affected Models |
Potential Fix/Work-Around |
Photos app memories tab crashing |
Non-Functional |
Intel Ivy and Haswell iGPUs |
Resolved with ce6f65d |
Memoji's Freezing/Crashing |
Non-Functional |
Intel Ivy, Haswell iGPUs and Nvidia Kepler GPUs |
Resolved with 2753f88 |
Blackscreen on Continuity Camera |
Semi-Functional |
Intel Ivy - Skylake iGPUs, AMD patched GPUs and Nvidia Kepler GPUs |
Resolved with cdb40d8 |
Missing Fonts in Books, Font Book and Calendar |
Semi-Functional |
Intel Ivy Bridge iGPUs |
Resolved with 54c56e2 |
News and Photos Widget crashing Notification Centre |
Non-Functional |
Intel Ivy and Haswell iGPUs |
Resolved with a24570d |
Weather and Font Book apps crashing or freezing |
Semi-Functional |
Intel Ivy and Haswell iGPUs |
Resolved with a24570d |
Apple TV failing to reproduce new content on MacOS 13.3+ |
Semi-Functional |
All non-native GPUs |
Resolved with MacOS Sonoma |
Full Screen Music.app mini Player Crashing |
Non-Functional |
Intel Ivy-Broadwell iGPUs and Nvidia Kepler GPUs (requires Metal 2) |
Resolved with MacOS Sonoma |
DRM content causing kernel panics on MacOS 13.3+ |
Semi-Functional |
AMD GCN 1-3 |
Resolved with c052388 |
Hardware Encode/Decode (ex. slow initial Chrome loading) |
Non-Functional |
AMD GCN 1-3 paired with Skylake iGPUs |
Resolved with 5df3cca |
Preview, QuickLook, Photo Booth and Photos crashing on MacOS Sonoma |
Non-Functional |
Intel Ivy - Haswell iGPUs and Nvidia Kepler GPUs |
Resolved with 20d04d3 |
Photo's Editor Crashing |
Non-Functional |
Intel iGPUs and Nvidia Kepler |
Resolved with c064269 |
Photo's App won't open |
Non-Functional |
Intel Broadwell and Skylake iGPUs |
Resolved with c064269 |
Black in Google Maps |
Non-functional |
Intel Ivy and Haswell iGPUs |
Resolved in 13.0 Beta 9 |
OpenCL broken |
Non-functional |
AMD GCN with pre-AVX2.0 CPU |
Resolved with 5aa7ab3 |
Photo's App won't open (isOpaque crash) |
Non-Functional |
AMD GCN 1-3 |
Resolved with 1a262c6 |
Screensaver Crashing |
Non-Functional |
AMD GCN 1-3 |
Resolved with 1a262c6 |
Camera shows black screen |
Non-Functional |
AMD GCN 1-3 |
Resolved with 1a262c6 |
MetalBench and MetalFX crash |
Non-Functional |
AMD GCN 1-3 |
Resolved with 1a262c6 |
