For audio I used AppleALC which gave me native macOS HD audio for unsupported codecs like the one on my motherboard (ran into an issue there with a simple but possibly annoying workaround, more details below) I really lucked out in that all my hardware was supported and I didn’t have to purchase anything else.
#Multibeast hackintosh settings drivers
Using a combination of Lilu and WhateverGreen I was able to use Apple’s AMD Pro graphics drivers which worked flawlessly with my RX 480 for the most part (aside from sleep mode, which I’ll explain later.) For ethernet I used RealtekRTL8111 kext which gave me acceptable bandwidth speeds. I got the macOS High Sierra installer from my Macbook Pro and proceeded to put it on a flash drive loaded with Clover (third party macOS bootloader) and all the kexts I needed. My experience installing macOS was fairly painless using the guide I linked above, at least compared to when I installed Arch (for the first time) or Gentoo. While I didn’t use it as much, the Hackintosh subreddit might be useful as well. I’d recommend them as a last resort if you’re having a problem you can’t solve and no one else seems to be having it. There’s also the Hackintosh Discord which has been invaluable when running into issues on new versions of High Sierra, such as having up to date version of apfs.efi (filesystem drivers) or knowing when new versions of kexts (third party driver packages for macOS) are available. I’ll save you some time and link CorpNewt’s excellent guide on doing a ‘Vanilla’ install: Originally I was going to try UniBeast from but after doing a bit of searching around I found a much better guide that would let me use native Apple drivers with a few patches. If you want to do a Hackintosh, be sure to do a lot of research or you may be in for a bad time.
#Multibeast hackintosh settings install
Some of this information may be wrong or out of date as I’ve not interacted with my Hackintosh install or the community as of late, but this is my conclusion as of a few months ago.
I’m also planning on upgrading to Ryzen at some point in the future and from what I’ve heard on the Hackintosh Discord server, macOS does not play nice with AMD CPUs.ĭisclaimer: I’ve had a Macbook Pro since 2012 that I use on a regular basis so I’m already familiar with macOS. Not to mention the recent announcement that Apple is going to ditch Intel for its own proprietary ARM CPUs. While it certainly did, there’s many small gripes that have made me want to move on from the OS as a whole. When I first started on this endeavour macOS seemed like it would be able to give me a Unix development environment and pro creative software all in one. I was getting fed up with Windows’ spying tactics and Linux’s lack of proprietary pro creative softw are.