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Asus direct CU R9 290/Gigabyte Windforce r9 290 owners without clover


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Skip to the bottom, download and install the kexts if you have either of these cards and are having a problem getting them to work in Yosemite without reading all the step by step stuff.


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To make a long story short, clover has never worked for me, and frankly just confuses the {censored} out of me, which was more than a little frustrating because I've read time and time again that the only "real" way to get the ati 290 (non x) cards to work on yosemite is by using fakeid with clover.


 


And it seems like that might be wrong because I just did it without it, and it was actually pretty simple (after 60 hours of work). And it works, at least for the asus and gigabyte versions of the r9 290. What I did:


 


1) Make copies of amdradeonx4000.kext and AMD8000Controller.kext onto the desktop (located /system/library/extensions)


2) Replace 0x67b01002 with 0x67b11002 under the key titled "AMDHawaiiGraphicsAccelerator" in AMDRadeonx4000.kext


3) Added 0x67B11002, to the section labeled IOPCIMatch in AMD8000Controller.kext.


4) Dragged the kexts into kexwizard, repaired my permissions with kext wizard, rebooted


5) Now both are recognized as 8xxx with 4096mb of ram.


 


Alternately, you can download the modded kexts below and dump them into kext wizard, repair then reboot. That's about as much help I can offer right now, but I'd be interested in seeing if anyone else is able to have luck with this.


 


A few side notes: I haven't yet done extensive testing with this, so all I can tell you is that the DVI ports on both cards work fine, and  qi/ce  seems to be working as well and that the cards are recognized as 8xxx with the full 4096mb of ram. I have not played any demanding games on it yet either.


 


I'm by no means an advanced hackintosher, so I'm sure other users should be able to take this farther than I have, but this is at least a step in the right direction. All in all, it took me about 40-50 hours of trail and error, so hopefully someone else can also get some use out of it as well. 


 


https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4pzGadtDbUXVFNQRDFZMTdfUFU/view?usp=sharing






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