macOS 14 Sonoma on Unsupported Macs Thread

[howardc64]

how do you find your MBP 8,1 on Sonoma. You are the first I have seen post having it on.
I'm currently on Montery but considering updating soon.
Anything special you needed to do?

Note this was a MB 8,1 (2015 12" 8GB 256GB) not MBP 8,1. Is a spare machine so didn't heavily use it post OCLP Sonoma. However, I did sign in and sync my icloud, synced my brave browser. Everything I used worked. But it feels a little slower than my MBP 12,1 on OCLP Sonoma. I guess to be expected giving up so much performance.

MB 8,1 is metal graphics which is key as Apple seems to keep on migrating more desktop + app rendering to metal.

In one evening of use, I did the following

• Message forward from iPhone
• Used a few tabs on brave. Mostly forums and even youtube full screen (brief stutter on video start as comments and remaining of the page fill out but then pretty smooth)
• Copy and Paste between MB 8,1 and iPhone

 

[howardc64]

iMac 11,3 (stock GPU) OCLP 1.3.0 Sonoma 14.2.1

• Turn on System Settings -> Accessibility -> Display -> Reduce transparency to avoid random flashing transparencies as windows move around and on top of each other.
• Turn off Beta Blur and enabled Beta Menu Bar + Dark Menu Bar in root patching. Beta Menu Bar will automatically set text/icon color (white on dark or black on light) to make it more visible. Without reduced transparencies, can be harsh depending on background but pretty good with Sonoma default. Alternative is to use a constant dark wall paper and don't use Beta Menu Bar and let the system's white letters overlay against the dark wall paper.
• Maps is lost on both of course. I think it got "metalfied" in prior macOS. Blank all the way back to Monterey. Big Sur will show dark images.
• Photos will display thumbnails but when selected and zoomed up, will disappear. Sometimes will be okay just after install but eventually will start disappearing. Same result all the way back to Monterey. Works perfect in Big Sur. A good workaround for this problem is just maximize the size of thumb nails so its like viewing the photo in large format. If really want to see full screen, drag photo into desktop (jpg) and view that. Not too bad if not a heavy Photos user.
• PRAM reset to get BT and audio to work of course (I think may lose audio again after booting to Big Sur)

Other than this seems to work reasonably well. So if no need for Maps and heavy use of Photos app. Then good to go. Would be cool if Photos can be made working since its a useful app but I'm guessing unlikely given the priorities.



iMac 11,1 (Stock GPU) OCLP 1.3.0 Sonoma 14.2.1

• Install stopped towards the end at a place called Setup Assistant. This screen doesn't show on successful installations so I never knew about this phase called Setup Assistant. Just reboot from the target macOS installation partition and OCLP will continue and complete.
• Photos works perfectly when zoomed in from thumbnail so maybe slightly different non metal gfx anomaly from iMac 11,3

 

[OKonnel]

I just installed Sonoma 14.2.1 on iMac14,2. Sometimes the window shadows disappear (after display sleep?). Is there a way to reenable them besides rebooting?

Ho @joevt! I also have an iMac 14.2 with the features described in my signature.
I've never noticed if Finder windows cast their own shadows after waking the Mac from sleep mode, but I've only noticed that some icons disappear in the right menu bar.
Unfortunately I don't have the Mac at hand and I can't check whether the Finder’s shadows disappear for me too.
However, you can try the method that I have indicated to everyone several times to make all the icons reappear without needing to click one at a time in the empty spaces.
Try it and let us know if it also works with shadows; perhaps the news can be useful to the OCLP Developers.
Open Terminal and type

killall Dock

exactly, respecting the lowercase and uppercase letters. Then press the Enter key.
If you don't see the Dock restart and the icons reappear, you typed incorrectly and can try again.
Hello and best wishes

 

[shmasser]

For me the same:
Photos app crashes by click on "Edit" in "Portrait pics" (with Intel Iris Pro Card).
When on Nvidia Card Photos app also crashes.

Memorys crashes only with Intel Iris Card. (not with Nvidia Card)

But i have another "problem" in Photos App:

When I click on "People" => double click on a People => scroll down to "review more Photos" => I always got the massage "There don't appear to be any additional photos".
In my opinion name scanning doesn't work correctly: new photos got scanned; so in the window below a face, I can name the face. but that's it: only manual face naming works. the "intelligent" detection from similar faces (review more Photos) didn't work.
I tried a lot of things: restored an old version of Photos Library; repaired the Library; leave the MBP running the hole night... with and without power plug in; forces the graphics card to Intel Iris or Nvidia (with gSwitch)

Anyone else have this "problem"?

MBP 11,3 / Sonoma 14.2 / OCLP 1.3

Also in Ventura

 

[junley4]

Hello everyone.
I would like to report a successful install of 14.2.1 on my iMac 12,2 (27-inch, mid-2011) using OCLP 1.3.0.
Almost everything works fine for me except some minor issues as follows.

1. Missing icons in menu bar which is fixed by changing wallpaper.
2. Green tint on camera when using photo boot app which is fixed by running FaceTime app at the same time as photo boot app.
3. Bluetooth not turning on which is fixed by PRAM reset.
4. Photos app crash when editing portrait pics, no fix.
5. "There don't appear to be any additional photos" message when opening photos>people>review more photos, no fix.
6. Graphics glitching when opening notes app, no fix. Some artifacts left even after closing notes app which can be fixed by running another app on top of glitched part of screen.

Above are very minors issues which I can totally ignore because they don't affect the work I do with my machine. With what I need, this is somewhat stable for me. Thanks again to the amazing devs and testers of OCLP and Sonoma on Unsupported Macs.

Note: In my SSD, I have 3 MacOS volumes.
1. Sonoma - Somewhat stable and I am currently using as my daily driver.
2. Ventura - Very stable, used to be my daily driver.
3. Big Sur - Most stable so I use this as my fallback just in case things get messed up in Ventura or Sonoma.

 

[freestart]

Hello everyone.
I would like to report a successful install of 14.2.1 on my iMac 12,2 (27-inch, mid-2011) using OCLP 1.3.0.
Almost everything works fine for me except some minor issues as follows.

1. Missing icons in menu bar which is fixed by changing wallpaper.
2. Green tint on camera when using photo boot app which is fixed by running FaceTime app at the same time as photo boot app.
3. Bluetooth not turning on which is fixed by PRAM reset.
4. Photos app crash when editing portrait pics, no fix.
5. "There don't appear to be any additional photos" message when opening photos>people>review more photos, no fix.
6. Graphics glitching when opening notes app, no fix. Some artifacts left even after closing notes app which can be fixed by running another app on top of glitched part of screen.

Above are very minors issues which I can totally ignore because they don't affect the work I do with my machine. With what I need, this is somewhat stable for me. Thanks again to the amazing devs and testers of OCLP and Sonoma on Unsupported Macs.

Note: In my SSD, I have 3 MacOS volumes.
1. Sonoma - Somewhat stable and I am currently using as my daily driver.
2. Ventura - Very stable, used to be my daily driver.
3. Big Sur - Most stable so I use this as my fallback just in case things get messed up in Ventura or Sonoma.

thanks for your information, now I can to use the quicktime player after that I open facetime. Please tell me but in Ventura there was this problem with camera? thanks!

 

[TommesPommes]

Sonoma 14.2 + OCLP 1.3.0 running well on an i7 MacBookPro9,2 (13 inch mid-2012). I'm very pleased with the overall performance! It feels just as fast as it did when running Catalina.

The only major negative so far is that neither Parallels 19.2.0 nor VMware Fusion 13.5.0 are working on this machine. Parallels just shows a black screen, and starting a vm on VMware Fusion yields a "Transport (VMDB) error -14: Pipe connection has been broken" error, after which Fusion crashes and the entire machine becomes unstable.

I've also seen some relatively minor issues with Apple Music. For example, when viewing a playlist, clicking a different playlist in the sidebar selects the different playlist, but the list of songs displayed often remains the list of songs from the first playlist. I'm not sure if that is a general Apple Music bug or something that is showing up because of the unsupported installation. I'm also seeing occasional problems where I am unable to click/select items in the sidebar or in playlists, e.g. I will click on an item, but another item actually becomes selected.

Otherwise, as long as I don't attempt to run Parallels or VMware, the system is running very well. Kudos to the developers.

Hi,
i have the same Macbook with oclp sonoma, and after adding

mks.enableMTLRenderer = "0"
mks.enableGLRenderer = "1"
mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = "TRUE"

to
~/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/preferences
i am able to use my Windows 11 VM in VMware Fusion 13.5

 

[TommesPommes]

Hello
i am running Sonoma 14.2.1 on iMac11,3.
Unfortunately i am not able to run Windows VM in VMWare Fusion.
VmWare Fusion 12 and 13 say the cpu is too old,
VMWare 11 and older say the OS is not supported.
I took the VMWare Fusion app from an older Backup, it is running, but the Windows VM doesnt start.
Is anyone here, who has a similar setup and knows how to run Windows on VMware Fusion on this old IMac with Sonoma?
Thank you

 

[TOM1211]

Hello
i am running Sonoma 14.2.1 on iMac11,3.
Unfortunately i am not able to run Windows VM in VMWare Fusion.
VmWare Fusion 12 and 13 say the cpu is too old,
VMWare 11 and older say the OS is not supported.
I took the VMWare Fusion app from an older Backup, it is running, but the Windows VM doesnt start.
Is anyone here, who has a similar setup and knows how to run Windows on VMware Fusion on this old IMac with Sonoma?
Thank you

Might not help have you tried VMware Fusion Technology Preview 2023 ?

 

[TommesPommes]

nope, same error, cpu not supported hardware, cannot open

 

[TommesPommes]

Hi,
I have a problem with OCLP and Bootcamp and my wireless keyboard on iMac 11,3:
When using a wired keyboard I can hold the option key to get into classic bootmenu where I can choose between Windows and oclp EFI. Everything works this way.

But when using my wireless keyboard the option key doesn't give me the bootmenu, it goes straight to the oclp bootpicker, and even there the wireless keyboard doesn't work. Only with the welcome screen of Sonoma, the wireless keyboard works.
When I select windows(legacy) in the oclp bootpicker with a wired keyboard, it doesn't boot windows.
Also when booting into windows with wired keyboard from classic bootmenu, the wireless keyboard doesn't connect to windows.
I can pair it to windows, but then it doesn't connect to Sonoma anymore.
Anyone who could help me on this issue?
Thanks

 

[drew24]

OCLP 1.4.0 nightly anyone with link please

 

[Ready-for-Apple]

For me the same:
Photos app crashes by click on "Edit" in "Portrait pics" (with Intel Iris Pro Card).
When on Nvidia Card Photos app also crashes.

Memorys crashes only with Intel Iris Card. (not with Nvidia Card)

But i have another "problem" in Photos App:

When I click on "People" => double click on a People => scroll down to "review more Photos" => I always got the massage "There don't appear to be any additional photos".
In my opinion name scanning doesn't work correctly: new photos got scanned; so in the window below a face, I can name the face. but that's it: only manual face naming works. the "intelligent" detection from similar faces (review more Photos) didn't work.
I tried a lot of things: restored an old version of Photos Library; repaired the Library; leave the MBP running the hole night... with and without power plug in; forces the graphics card to Intel Iris or Nvidia (with gSwitch)

Anyone else have this "problem"?

MBP 11,3 / Sonoma 14.2 / OCLP 1.3

Thanks for sharing your experience 👍🏻

Yeah, you're right. Having same bug with "People" --> "review more Photos": "There don't appear to be any additional photos"😔


Thanks to your comments, I now know that I'm not the only one who has the problems you summarized in the Photos app.
However, it also shows me that some important points for me in the Photos app cannot currently be realized with OCLP. 😢
I personally hope that the developers will find a solution in the future. Fingers crossed!🤞🏻

 

[LlamaLarry]

Same issues with Photos on my daily driver (the Ventura MBA in my sig). It is constantly Finding People, but I don't think the Mac ever finds people or flag additional photos. I am pretty sure that everything in there has either come from my phone doing the work or from me manually finding a face. I also still get syncing issues/pauses or Mac Needs to Cool Down messages frequently.

 

[K two]

macOS 14.3 Beta 3 OTA atop Beta 2 OCLP 1.4.0n runs as expected on Mini7,1.
The matching KDK is here: https://github.com/dortania/KdkSupportPkg/releases

 

[joevt]

Ho @joevt! I also have an iMac 14.2 with the features described in my signature.
I've never noticed if Finder windows cast their own shadows after waking the Mac from sleep mode, but I've only noticed that some icons disappear in the right menu bar.
Unfortunately I don't have the Mac at hand and I can't check whether the Finder’s shadows disappear for me too.
However, you can try the method that I have indicated to everyone several times to make all the icons reappear without needing to click one at a time in the empty spaces.
Try it and let us know if it also works with shadows; perhaps the news can be useful to the OCLP Developers.
Open Terminal and type

killall Dock

I haven't noticed icons disappearing in the dock. I have the dock positioned on the left side of the display and "Turn Hiding On".
killall Dock just relaunches the dock. It doesn't appear to affect shadows.
I can get shadows to reappear if I restart or if I use "Appearance: Dark" or use "Increase contrast". For the latter two options, shadows disappear again if I return to Light mode without increased contrast.

 

[OKonnel]

I haven't noticed icons disappearing in the dock. I have the dock positioned on the left side of the display and "Turn Hiding On".
killall Dock just relaunches the dock. It doesn't appear to affect shadows.
I can get shadows to reappear if I restart or if I use "Appearance: Dark" or use "Increase contrast". For the latter two options, shadows disappear again if I return to Light mode without increased contrast.

Hey @joevt … I talked about the icons to the right of the menu bar (the top one); I didn't talk about the Dock icons.

Try looking at the bar at the top right, after your Mac wakes up from a long sleep and you should notice that instead of some icons there is white space. The icon reappears if you click the mouse in its empty spot; in my case, however, the Bluetooth icon never reappears and therefore I discovered on my own that with the "killall Dock" command all the icons reappear, without wasting time.

At this point, regarding the problem you describe, you could simply try typing “killall Finder” in the Terminal (without the quotes, obviously) and pressing Enter, rather than restarting or doing more complicated operations. Alternatively, you can also use any other direct method (by menu bar, by Dock…) that can restart Finder quickly.
Try it and let us know if it works. Thanks

 

[joevt]

Hey @joevt … I talked about the icons to the right of the menu bar (the top one); I didn't talk about the Dock icons.

Try looking at the bar at the top right, after your Mac wakes up from a long sleep and you should notice that instead of some icons there is white space.

The icon reappears if you click the mouse in its empty spot; in my case, however, the Bluetooth icon never reappears and therefore I discovered on my own that with the "killall Dock" command all the icons reappear, without wasting time.

Oh, I see that now. Yes, the right side of the menu bar is empty after a long sleep except for the date. Switching to Dark mode seems to bring them back and they remain even if I switch to Light mode again (though the shadows are missing in Light mode unless "Increase contrast" is also being used.

At this point, regarding the problem you describe, you could simply try typing “killall Finder” in the Terminal (without the quotes, obviously) and pressing Enter, rather than restarting or doing more complicated operations. Alternatively, you can also use any other direct method (by menu bar, by Dock…) that can restart Finder quickly.

I tried killall Finder but it is insufficient since the window shadows are missing for all apps.

 

[smnbldwn]

I have used OCLP to put Sonoma on an iMac 13.2. I have had to put it on an external SSD as the internal is dying and no skill or money to get screen off and change it. It is crashing more than once an hour and the report is giving kernel panic on one core as reason. Launching MS Word or Powerpoint seems to make crashing more likely. Is anyone else experiencing this?

 

[0134168]

I have used OCLP to put Sonoma on an iMac 13.2. I have had to put it on an external SSD as the internal is dying and no skill or money to get screen off and change it. It is crashing more than once an hour and the report is giving kernel panic on one core as reason. Launching MS Word or Powerpoint seems to make crashing more likely. Is anyone else experiencing this?

What kind of external drive? USB? Esata? Thunderbolt?

 

[smnbldwn]

USB, I expected slow but it runs OK between the frequent crashes.

 

[smnbldwn]

I am now deciding whether to go back to Catalina, the last supported OS on this machine or update to Sonoma 14.2, its currently on 14.1. Could this be causing the problems as it is on the latest OCLP.

 

[Mystere65]

OCLP 1.4.0 nightly chiunque abbia un collegamento, per favore

https://nightly.link/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/workflows/build-app-wxpython/main/OpenCore-Patcher.app%20%28GUI%29.zip

 

[edzuper]

iMac 14,2 with Sonoma 14,3 Beta 2 stuck at progress bar when updating to latest 14,3 Beta 3

I had to clean flash back to Beta 2

 

[VeganExplorer]

Just a stupid question:

I have a MacBookPro11,5 (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) with OpenCore-Patcher 1.3.0 running macOS 13.6.3. Since I no longer use this machine, what would be the upgrade path if I want to upgrade to Sonoma? My wife has a profile on this machine, so this is now her's.

1. I remember back when I upgraded to Ventura, doing a Software Update through System Preferences was not recommended. Is that still the case?
2. I just assume I create the macOS Installer in OpenCore-Patcher, I can install directly from the external drive I install Sonoma to and/or complete an Erase and Install?