AudioGod's Aorus Z390 Pro Patched DSDT Mini Guide and Discussion

[panosru]

I unplugged my BT Usb dongle and enabled the BT from the BCM94360CS2 card that I have, now handoff and universal clipboard is working fine, but the BT signal range is so crappy that when the mouse is more than 15 - 20cm away from the pc, it stutters. My Hackintosh is about 1 - 1.5 meters away from my desk, so the mouse isn't working at all... Isn't there any card with strong BT signal or a way to extend the BT transmitter somehow or use a dongle that is compatible with handoff?

 

I'm very confused on all these BCM* cards, can someone suggest me which BCM card should I get in order to have a good BT signal? It seems that many people are complaining about BCM94360CS2 which I own, so I guess I have to order another card.

 

Thanks!

 

UPDATE:

I bought an extension cable with an antena and plugged it into the one of two outputs which was for BT, now it works perfectly fine!

Edited October 21, 2022 by panosru

[Blesh]

6 hours ago, panosru said:

I unplugged my BT Usb dongle and enabled the BT from the BCM94360CS2 card that I have, now handoff and universal clipboard is working fine, but the BT signal range is so crappy that when the mouse is more than 15 - 20cm away from the pc, it stutters. My Hackintosh is about 1 - 1.5 meters away from my desk, so the mouse isn't working at all... Isn't there any card with strong BT signal or a way to extend the BT transmitter somehow or use a dongle that is compatible with handoff?

 

I'm very confused on all these BCM* cards, can someone suggest me which BCM card should I get in order to have a good BT signal? It seems that many people are complaining about BCM94360CS2 which I own, so I guess I have to order another card.

 

Thanks!

 

UPDATE:

I bought an extension cable with an antena and plugged it into the one of two outputs which was for BT, now it works perfectly fine!

I have exactly the same card and faced this issue at the very beginning. Switching to 5Ghz did the trick. Also the reason why it is stuttering is due the connection screw cable to the case of your computer. Replace this with a better isolated cable (which you already did). BTW it is possible to use the integrated Wifi card from the mainboard with a kernel extension^^

Edited October 21, 2022 by Blesh

[panosru]

Thanks for the info @Blesh! Yeah, BT was an issue for me as well when I first built my first Hackintosh back in May 2019, I just used a USB dongle and I was fine, WiFi wasn't an issue for me since I'm a cable guy. Now that I got myself an iPhone I want those nice features of handoff etc, so I remember I had bought a BCM card, so I plugged it in and my mouse only worked when I had it like 15 - 20cm next to the PC, so yeah, I just got myself an extension cable with an additional antenna and it works GREAT now! My router's WiFi transmit both in 2.4 and 5GHz because some "smart" devices at home work only under 2.4GHz 😤

 

For the integrated WiFi, you mean if you own the Aorus Pro WiFi because the Aorus Pro doesn't have an integrated WiFi, but, even if you make it work, it won't support handoff features... 

[Blesh]

17 hours ago, panosru said:

Thanks for the info @Blesh! Yeah, BT was an issue for me as well when I first built my first Hackintosh back in May 2019, I just used a USB dongle and I was fine, WiFi wasn't an issue for me since I'm a cable guy. Now that I got myself an iPhone I want those nice features of handoff etc, so I remember I had bought a BCM card, so I plugged it in and my mouse only worked when I had it like 15 - 20cm next to the PC, so yeah, I just got myself an extension cable with an additional antenna and it works GREAT now! My router's WiFi transmit both in 2.4 and 5GHz because some "smart" devices at home work only under 2.4GHz 😤

 

For the integrated WiFi, you mean if you own the Aorus Pro WiFi because the Aorus Pro doesn't have an integrated WiFi, but, even if you make it work, it won't support handoff features... 

Ohu.. Just saw that you don't have the WiFi version. Do you mind to share the link where you bought that extension cable?
I seperated my wifis router SSID to XXX-2.4Ghz and XXX-5Ghz and connected to the 5Ghz only. 2.4Ghz is used for the same purpose like you mentioned.

[panosru]

@Blesh I bought them at a local shop for a total cost of 30 euros, wireless antenna extension cable R-SMA Male to Female by Logilink and this antenna I wanted the extension cable because the length of the antenna cable wasn't enough for my needs. I connected the extension cable to one of the two ports, the one that is marked with BT logo, as shown in the screenshot bellow, and I placed the antenna close to my workspace, now all my bluetooth devices connect without any problem and the mouse stoped stuttering

 

[saCULar]

Hi everyone,

 

I have updated to the RC of Ventura.  I first updated my EFI to opencore 0.8.5 and that booted Monterey no problems.  However it would not complete the install of Ventura.  Switched to eSaf's EFI to completed the install.

Everything works fine with respect to hardware with the exception that now the TV app does not play video for more than about 30 secs and then quits.  The TV app played fine under Monterey...

 

It is definitely a "1st world problem" as I can still watch apple tv plus using the browser.

 

Has anyone using a Radeon card (I have Radeon VII) updated to Ventura and are able to run the TV app successfully?

 

regards

 

saCUL

[saCULar]

6 hours ago, saCULar said:

Hi everyone,

 

I have updated to the RC of Ventura.  I first updated my EFI to opencore 0.8.5 and that booted Monterey no problems.  However it would not complete the install of Ventura.  Switched to eSaf's EFI to completed the install.

Everything works fine with respect to hardware with the exception that now the TV app does not play video for more than about 30 secs and then quits.  The TV app played fine under Monterey...

 

It is definitely a "1st world problem" as I can still watch apple tv plus using the browser.

 

Has anyone using a Radeon card (I have Radeon VII) updated to Ventura and are able to run the TV app successfully?

 

regards

 

saCUL

Read the Whatevergreen DRM info page and used:  defaults write com.apple.AppleGVA gvaForceAMDKE -boolean yes , from the terminal to force AMD rendering and now Apple TV app works... might be at the expense of stability. Will wait and see 🙂

 

saCUL

[D3v1L]

7 hours ago, saCULar said:

Hi everyone,

 

I have updated to the RC of Ventura.  I first updated my EFI to opencore 0.8.5 and that booted Monterey no problems.  However it would not complete the install of Ventura.  Switched to eSaf's EFI to completed the install.

Everything works fine with respect to hardware with the exception that now the TV app does not play video for more than about 30 secs and then quits.  The TV app played fine under Monterey...

 

It is definitely a "1st world problem" as I can still watch apple tv plus using the browser.

 

Has anyone using a Radeon card (I have Radeon VII) updated to Ventura and are able to run the TV app successfully?

 

regards

 

saCUL

Navi AMD here... full drm support (fairplay 1,2,3,4)... All works like a charm... Netflix (Safari)/Disney+ (Safari)/Prime (App)/AppleTV+...at full resolution... 
 

Edited October 23, 2022 by D3v1L

[benjiolino]

Hello everybody,

I have a general question. I´m running a 9900k with a Radeon VII since some years and it was really a joy to work with. Since half a year I have the 14 inch MacBook M1 pro with 16GB RAM. I was never taking MacBooks serious for editing but this thing that I only bought when I´m traveling is faster in every single video editing and composition task in Resolve, Premiere and After Effects then my Hackintosh. I´m wondering if it makes any sense to upgrade my hack or just forget about Hackintosh at all. I mean the new CPU are not supported in terms of iGPU and who knows how long X86 is still supported. I´m really interested in opinions on this. I really enjoyed working on Hackintosh but if it doesn't beat a real Mac anymore I don't see the point.

[saCULar]

23 hours ago, benjiolino said:

Hello everybody,

I have a general question. I´m running a 9900k with a Radeon VII since some years and it was really a joy to work with. Since half a year I have the 14 inch MacBook M1 pro with 16GB RAM. I was never taking MacBooks serious for editing but this thing that I only bought when I´m traveling is faster in every single video editing and composition task in Resolve, Premiere and After Effects then my Hackintosh. I´m wondering if it makes any sense to upgrade my hack or just forget about Hackintosh at all. I mean the new CPU are not supported in terms of iGPU and who knows how long X86 is still supported. I´m really interested in opinions on this. I really enjoyed working on Hackintosh but if it doesn't beat a real Mac anymore I don't see the point.

Hey benjiolino,

 

for video the apple silicon package has additional dedicated areas which accelerate video editing, especially apple prores.  But for general CPU bound work - I have found the i9 works really well.  It appears just as responsive for scientific work flows as the Mac Studio with a M1 Max chip that I use at work.

Saying that this is "seat of the pants", not extensive benchmarking comparisons.

 

regards

 

saCUL

Just now, saCULar said:

Hey benjiolino,

 

for video the apple silicon package has additional dedicated areas which accelerate video editing, especially apple prores.  But for general CPU bound work - I have found the i9 works really well.  It appears just as responsive for scientific work flows as the Mac Studio with a M1 Max chip that I use at work.

Saying that this is "seat of the pants", not extensive benchmarking comparisons.

 

regards

 

saCUL

and of course, if you want to play some PC games, it is short work to reboot to native windows, which you can't do with a native apple PC.

 

[panosru]

Ventura has been released, I'll proceed with the upgrade now

 

 

UPDATE:

The upgrade went very smooth, but Little Snitch isn't working, it's too late for me to check other apps, but I bet updates will come very soon.

Edited October 24, 2022 by panosru
Little Snitch 5.5 supports Ventura

[jimborae]

14 hours ago, panosru said:

Ventura has been released, I'll proceed with the upgrade now

 

 

UPDATE:

The upgrade went very smooth, but Little Snitch isn't working, it's too late for me to check other apps, but I bet updates will come very soon.

 

So I also updated to Ventura on my in Intel hack and yep that's worked like a treet. However my Ryzencore tries to update & when it reboots it just hangs on the Apple boot logo with no progress bar, also USB devices are totally dead. I need to switch to verbose mode to see if I can see what it's hanging on and failing that I'll chuck in a spare drive and try a clean install & see it that works before wiping the main drive installation.

Edited October 25, 2022 by jimborae

[panosru]

@jimborae, for me everything works fine, tbh, I used to have many issues with USB, but ever since I ditched usb kext fix and moved to SSDT usb setup, I never had issues again with USB, although, I'm fairly certain that the kext works equally well, mostly likely it was an issue with my setup, but, maybe you could try SSDT usb setup and see how it goes. (more info here)

[jimborae]

On 10/25/2022 at 1:51 PM, panosru said:

@jimborae, for me everything works fine, tbh, I used to have many issues with USB, but ever since I ditched usb kext fix and moved to SSDT usb setup, I never had issues again with USB, although, I'm fairly certain that the kext works equally well, mostly likely it was an issue with my setup, but, maybe you could try SSDT usb setup and see how it goes. (more info here)

 

Any chance you could post your efi so I can try it out on my intel hack and have a look at the structure of it, which apart from the GPU is almost identical to yours? 

[dsynos80]

Hello after a long time! 

Would i loose anything if i switch from imac19.1 smbios  to 1.1 or 7.1?

I want to disable igpu.

 

Thnxx

[D3v1L]

3 hours ago, dsynos80 said:

Hello after a long time! 

Would i loose anything if i switch from imac19.1 smbios  to 1.1 or 7.1?

I want to disable igpu.

 

Thnxx

...you don't loose nothing...but remember to log out from icloud before restart with new smbios or pc explode LoL xD !...

[dsynos80]

4 hours ago, D3v1L said:

...you don't loose nothing...but remember to log out from icloud before restart with new smbios or pc explode LoL xD !...

Haha, thnx for the quick response bro.

Will do and report.

[Slice]

20 hours ago, dsynos80 said:

Hello after a long time! 

Would i loose anything if i switch from imac19.1 smbios  to 1.1 or 7.1?

I want to disable igpu.

 

Thnxx

I am switching from iMacPro1,1 to iMac18,3 or to MacPro7,1 anytime I like just for testing something.

I see any problem switching forth and back.

[panosru]

@jimborae I'm sorry for my late response, it was a heavy week. I'm attaching here my EFI (iMac19,1), bear in mind though, I'm using the latest DEV version of OC (0.8.6), technically it isn't a stable release, although, I'm on dev releases for a year now and I've never encountered any issue. Don't forget to clean your NVRAM after upgrading your EFI. It would be best if you place the EFI on a flash disk and try it from there instead of replacing your current EFI. I've removed MLB, SystemSerialNumber and SystemUUID values in the config, use your's so iCloud won't log you out.

EFI.zip

[deeveedee]

Depending on your chosen USB port patching technique, you may need to modify your USB mapping kext when switching between different SMBIOS MacModels.  For example, if you're using USBPorts.kext generated by Hackintool, you'll see that the SMBIOS MacModel is part of the kext's Info.plist.

[jimborae]

5 hours ago, panosru said:

@jimborae I'm sorry for my late response, it was a heavy week. I'm attaching here my EFI (iMac19,1), bear in mind though, I'm using the latest DEV version of OC (0.8.6), technically it isn't a stable release, although, I'm on dev releases for a year now and I've never encountered any issue. Don't forget to clean your NVRAM after upgrading your EFI. It would be best if you place the EFI on a flash disk and try it from there instead of replacing your current EFI. I've removed MLB, SystemSerialNumber and SystemUUID values in the config, use your's so iCloud won't log you out.

EFI.zip 5.04 MB · 0 downloads

 

Thanks mate, much appreciated and for the tips. Will let you know how I get on, once i've had a play with it. 

[panosru]

I recently switched from Edge to Safari since I also switched from Android to iPhone, also Ventura came out, and I'm noticing video (YouTube and other websites) stuttering, anyone else experiences a similar issue? At first, I thought that the issue is happening only on Safari, but when I notice the stuttering, I quit Safari and try Chrome, Edge, and the stuttering happens there. I'm not yet sure if the issue originated from Safari, I'll have to go a day on Edge to ensure that the issue is global. On Safari I've enabled VT9, my iGUP is also enabled in BIOS, so hardware acceleration works. I notice that the issue happens when I leave my Hackintosh unattended so it stays idle for ~20 minutes, or it enters in the screensaver, and when I return and try to play a video on YouTube it stutters (the sound works fine). I tried quitting Safari and all browsers, in the activity monitor all processes are normal, nothing that drains too much CPU or RAM, and everything looks very normal, the only way to resolve this is by restarting the machine, but it became very annoying to have to reboot 4 - 5 times in a day just because the video stuttering and it won't come back to normal no matter how long you leave it.
 
Thanks!

Edited October 31, 2022 by panosru

[D3v1L]

7 hours ago, panosru said:

I recently switched from Edge to Safari since I also switched from Android to iPhone, also Ventura came out, and I'm noticing video (YouTube and other websites) stuttering, anyone else experiences a similar issue? At first, I thought that the issue is happening only on Safari, but when I notice the stuttering, I quit Safari and try Chrome, Edge, and the stuttering happens there. I'm not yet sure if the issue originated from Safari, I'll have to go a day on Edge to ensure that the issue is global. On Safari I've enabled VT9, my iGUP is also enabled in BIOS, so hardware acceleration works. I notice that the issue happens when I leave my Hackintosh unattended so it stays idle for ~20 minutes, or it enters in the screensaver, and when I return and try to play a video on YouTube it stutters (the sound works fine). I tried quitting Safari and all browsers, in the activity monitor all processes are normal, nothing that drains too much CPU or RAM, and everything looks very normal, the only way to resolve this is by restarting the machine, but it became very annoying to have to reboot 4 - 5 times in a day just because the video stuttering and it won't come back to normal no matter how long you leave it.
 
Thanks!

 

I prefer to use Opera browser 'couse whatsapp telegram and other integration but...i'll try now with Safari... no problem at all.

 

AorusPro z390

Ventura 13.1 (22C5033e)

Safari 16.1 (18614.3.2.11.2)

OpenCore 0.8.6 dev (no bootargs)

 

...try Disney+, Netflix, HBO, Youtube, Prime... FHD and 4k...

 

Maybe , if you have , try disable freesynch on monitor...

Edited November 1, 2022 by D3v1L

[panosru]

@D3v1L Ventura 13.1? They shipped 13.1 already? I don't have that update and "Software Update" doesn't prompt me to install it yet. My Safari version is 16.1 (18614.2.9.1.12), but once the stuttering starts, it affects everything, all other browsers. The image is stuttering but the sound works without any issue. Mostly I'm using YouTube, but I also tried to run other video services, Facebook Videos, Vimeo, Plex, the same stuttering is happening everywhere. I will try to run a video in VLC and QuickTime once it happens again to check out. I have free sync enable, I'll disable it once the issue happens again to remove those from the equation, thanks for pointing that out!

 

Unfortunately I can't tell if that is something related to Safari or Ventura since I switched to Safari a day after I upgraded to Ventura... Opera indeed offers some cool integration, not to mention the free VPN functionality, but, since I moved from Android to iPhone, Safari is very easy to use between devices, synced history, favourites, keychain, etc.

[D3v1L]

Ventura 13.1 is on developer seed 😁 btw, you use iMac19,1 smbios right?...uhm bootargs? Sorry i try to focalize... (I don't use this smbios 'couse i need full drm and encoding power)