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I have heard good things about Hackintosh on Ryzen does anyone have more Info?

How viable is it? I'm using a 15 inch Macbook Pro but it struggles with 3 1440p monitors but my PC with a Ryzen 3800x and RTX 2080, 32gb RAM runs like a beast on Windows.

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Support for Ryzentosh is improving everyday, and more and more Hackintoshers are successfully going the Ryzen route. Latest Catalina even works.

However, there are some caveats. Because AMD is not officially supported, some things don’t work like Adobe apps, Android emulator and VMs. Fortunately ios development on Xcode works.

I'm running a hackintosh with a Ryzen 9 3900X. The OS itself runs great. The only thing to be aware of is whether your software will play nicely with a non-Intel CPU. Adobe software requires patching for example, and VMware / Parallels explicitly require VT-x and won't work with SVM.

Do you have tutorials/examples for both the installation on a Ryzen system and the patching of Adobe systems?

The canonical guide for installation is amd-osx.com ; plenty of helpful folks in the forums and discord.

It's getting better and better every month. The AMD community really made it easier the last few years to use AMD's CPUs on Hackintoshes. You can find plenty of builds on the dedicated subreddit.

If you plan to Hackintosh your PC though, your RTX 2080 won't work.

Oh won't work at all? I thought Nvidia released drivers for macOS

> We've spoken with several dozen developers inside Apple, obviously not authorized to speak on behalf of the company, who feel that support for Nvidia's higher-end cards would be welcome, but disallowed quietly at higher levels of the company.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/01/18/apples-management...

Nvidia released drivers for macOS up to High Sierra indeed. After that, we don't know exactly what happened behind the scenes, but apparently Apple would not approve the Nvidia drivers for later macOS releases and switched completely to AMD GPUs.

IIRC it's a little more tricky than on intel because the processors aren't officially supported. It may take some sort of kernel hackery to get going, and then you need to be careful about updates.

I have a similar build (64GB and a 2080 Ti) but the lack of Nvidia support is keeping me from giving it a go.

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