GUIDE How to Enable NVIDIA WebDrivers on macOS Big Sur and Monterey

[EliteMacx86]

I got this working on my Gigabyte GTX 1060 6GB and Ventura. I failed with Sonoma but maybe I overlooked something here.
Geekbench OpenCL score is 34141 which seems to be a good result for this card.
Multihead is working too with one monitor (1680x1050) via DVI and the other (2560x1080) via HDMI.
However metal is not active:
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Thank you so much for this guide.
Has anyone worked out how to get a GTX 1060 run with metal support?

Check the notes.

 

[EliteMacx86]

Can gtx 1650 be used this way?

Unfortunately, no. Only upto Pascal.

 

[rossi]

Check the notes.

Which notes? There are no notes? The keyword notes appears exactly once on the initial post in the table of boot args. Well - my boot args are fine.
I think Pascal chipset does not support metal past High Sierra...

 

[rossi]

Which notes? There are no notes? The keyword notes appears exactly once on the initial post in the table of boot args. Well - my boot args are fine.
I think Pascal chipset does not support metal past High Sierra...

Ahhh you mean the quick info. Yeah. Got it now. Sorry to bother.

QUICK INFO:

• This solution is purely experimental and is not supposed to be used in a production environment.
• As this solution can enable Hardware Acceleration, however, this enables only the OpenCL function and the metal function is still lacking. Applications requiring metal support may not work. See the issue reported by @Z2VvZ2Vv
• This solution does not work on macOS Mojave and Catalina.

 

[EliteMacx86]

Ahhh you mean the quick info. Yeah. Got it now. Sorry to bother.

QUICK INFO:

• This solution is purely experimental and is not supposed to be used in a production environment.
• As this solution can enable Hardware Acceleration, however, this enables only the OpenCL function and the metal function is still lacking. Applications requiring metal support may not work. See the issue reported by @Z2VvZ2Vv
• This solution does not work on macOS Mojave and Catalina.

Yes, that's right!

 

[rossi]

Short update - i switched to a AMD Vega 56 card :-(
Got a 8GB Saphire for 99€ and it just works flawlessly. I removed the patches with OCLP (with Nvidia card active) and then swapped out the GPU. Reasons / problems:

• Access to Microphone is not possible in Cisco Webex. Even if you set the permissions with tccplus it will complain about not having the privilege to access the microphone. Workaround: Use Webex embedded in your browser.
• Metal is not supported. This was my primary issue since I want to use the machine with Logic Pro. Unfortunately the "cursor" or playback position indicator is not visible without metal (at least in newer Logic Versions) which makes Logic more or less unusable.
• Some 3D applications (like minecraft) have very poor performance and stutter.
• Many minor inconveniences caused mostly by amfi_get_out_of_my_way setting.

So overall I think it's a super cool thing to be able to run your Nvidia GPU on MacOS however - you get natively supported AMD GPUs for 30+ Euro (RX 460 2GB) that have decent performance.

 

[EliteMacx86]

Short update - i switched to a AMD Vega 56 card :-(
Got a 8GB Saphire for 99€ and it just works flawlessly. I removed the patches with OCLP (with Nvidia card active) and then swapped out the GPU. Reasons / problems:

• Access to Microphone is not possible in Cisco Webex. Even if you set the permissions with tccplus it will complain about not having the privilege to access the microphone. Workaround: Use Webex embedded in your browser.
• Metal is not supported. This was my primary issue since I want to use the machine with Logic Pro. Unfortunately the "cursor" or playback position indicator is not visible without metal (at least in newer Logic Versions) which makes Logic more or less unusable.
• Some 3D applications (like minecraft) have very poor performance and stutter.
• Many minor inconveniences caused mostly by amfi_get_out_of_my_way setting.

So overall I think it's a super cool thing to be able to run your Nvidia GPU on MacOS however - you get natively supported AMD GPUs for 30+ Euro (RX 460 2GB) that have decent performance.

Indeed, without a second thought!

 

[leshu7w7]

Will this work on laptops, optimus laptops or is it only for desktops? Sorry I'm new at this, and I want to enable DRM, and I ended up here. Could you please make a video of how to fix DRM? Thanks in advance

 

[EliteMacx86]

Will this work on laptops, optimus laptops or is it only for desktops? Sorry I'm new at this, and I want to enable DRM, and I ended up here. Could you please make a video of how to fix DRM? Thanks in advance

Yes, it works on Laptops as well. Provided that you have the IGPU factory disabled or an option from BIOS to disable and only discrete Graphics can be used.

That's on our list and a guide will be published soon.

 

[Mazarinpolis]

Hello !

Successfully managed to get a GTX 1080 Ti working under Ventura 13.6.8 using OCLP 1.5.0 for a friend. I didn't use the boot-args amfi_get_out_of_my_way but I used AMFIpass.kext (1.4.0) instead ! Worked totally fine. After patching, I was stuck on a blackscreen... But it was related to the HDMI output being used !!! So I changed the output to DVI (because my friend didn't have Display-Port cable at home). Thank you !