Thanks to recent developments in the community and great work from @asentientbot and the Moraea team, we've made great progress on GPU Acceleration support.
| GPU Acceleration |
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Hardware Support
- NVIDIA Tesla: 8XXX-3XX
- NVIDIA Fermi: 4XX-5XX
- NVIDIA Maxwell: 9XX
- NVIDIA Pascal: 10XX
- ATI TeraScale 1: HD 2XXX-4XXX
- AMD TeraScale 2: HD 5XXX-6XXX
- Intel 5th Generation GPUs / Ironlake (1st Gen Intel Core)
- Intel 6th Generation GPUs / Sandy Bridge (2nd Gen Intel Core)
Note that these patches are in active development and there are many issues, some listed below:
Current Issues with Acceleration Patches
Sequoia issues
| Issues |
Reporter |
Severity |
Priority |
Potential Fix |
| Frozen gallery and no thumbnails on Photos app |
EduCovas |
High |
High |
Downgrade to Sonoma |
| Tiled windows feature doesn't work |
EduCovas |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Use a third party app |
| New Metal rendered wallpapers doesn't work |
EduCovas |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Requires Metal API |
| inverted colors on selected window screenshots |
EduCovas |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Downgrade to Sonoma |
| Broken background on Weather app |
EduCovas |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Downgrade to Sonoma (WeatherUI requires Metal API) |
Sonoma+ issues
| Issues |
Reporter |
Severity |
Priority |
Potential Fix |
| Show desktop shortcuts not working |
EduCovas |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Downgrade to Ventura |
| Cycle through windows shortcut not working |
EduCovas |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Downgrade to Ventura |
General Issues
| Issues |
Reporter |
Severity |
Priority |
Potential Fix |
| Graphics switching broken on dual GPU machines |
DhinakG |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Unknown, use gSwitch for manual switching |
| DRM content won't play in Safari, TV and Music |
EduCovas |
Moderate |
Unfixable |
Use a third party browser (Hardware decoding unavailable on non-Metal GPU drivers) |
| Stage Manager non-functional |
Mykola |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Unsupported on non-Metal (incompatible with 10.14.6 SkyLight) |
| AirPlay display unstable |
MykolaG |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Unknown |
| Broken Maps (incl. Find My, Places) in Monterey and newer |
Mykola |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Downgrade to Big Sur (Monterey VectorKit requires Metal) |
| Strange Window corners on HiDPI |
Mykola |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Unknown |
| Broken top bar in fullscreen on Chromium browsers |
ParaDoX1994 |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Fixed in Chrome Canary |
Resolved Issues
| Issues |
Reporter |
Severity |
Priority |
Potential Fix |
Tile full screen windows feature doesn't work on Sonoma |
EduCovas |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Resolved with macOS Sequoia |
Dock disappears after changing screen resolution |
EduCovas |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Resolved with f8a3d57 |
Unresponsive buttons in Catalyst apps on Sonoma |
EduCovas |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Resolved with 54c56e2 |
Menu Bar font color not changing even with Beta Menu Bar enabled |
EduCovas |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Resolved with 54c56e2 |
Black Interface Elements on certain Sandy Bridge Macs |
PatrickBK |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Resolved with 0.6.8 |
Wake from sleep distorts heavily on 11.3 Beta 1+ with AMD/ATI TeraScale 1 |
Mykola |
Resolved |
Resolved |
Resolved with 0.6.6 and MacOS Ventura |
Kernel Panic on Wake for Nvidia 8000 series and AMD/ATI TeraScale 1 GPUs |
Mykola |
Resolved |
Resolved |
Resolved with 0.6.6 |
Control Center Sliders Broken |
ASentientBot |
Resolved |
Resolved |
Resolved with 0.4.3 |
Forced Software Cursor |
ASentientBot |
Resolved |
Resolved |
Resolved with 0.4.3 |
Shifted/missing icons |
ASentientBot |
Resolved |
Resolved |
Resolved with 0.4.3 |
Erratic Colours on ATI TeraScale 2 GPUs |
MykolaG |
Resolved |
Resolved |
Resolved with 0.4.2 |
QuickLook Dismiss and Expand button missing |
neogomo |
Resolved |
Resolved |
Resolved with 0.4.3 |
Keyboard Backlight broken |
Mykola |
Resolved |
Resolved |
Resolved with 0.4.3 |
Automatic Dark/Lightmode not working |
ASentientBot |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Resolved with 0.4.4 |
Catalyst apps quoting after 1200 seconds |
MykolaG |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Resolved with 0.4.4 |
VNC Broken for legacy Tesla 1.0 and TeraScale 2.0 |
vale21 |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Resolved with 0.4.5 |
Bluetooth Connect Button not showing in Ventura Settings |
Mykola |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Resolved with 0.6.3 |
Emoji Picker Dismisses without pasting |
MykolaG |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Select emojis with arrow keys, resolved with 0.6.3 and macOS Ventura |
MenuBar with Reduce Transparency broken |
MykolaG |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Resolved in Monterey |
Menu Bar Blur and Selections |
ASentientBot |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Resolved with 0.6.3 |
Menu Bar white font on light wallpapers |
EduCovas |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Resolved with 0.6.3 |
Can't press Done in Widget Settings |
EduCovas |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Resolved with 0.6.3 |
Photo Booth Black Screen in Monterey |
MykolaG |
Moderate |
Moderate |
Resolved with 0.6.6 |