Hardware Graphics Acceleration on Vega 8

[mvaisakh]

Vega 8 Graphics is not supported by Apple, but most of the init code and code needed to get acceleration working is already present in their kexts. Also being an integrated GPU and new kind of architechture it makes it a challenge to get this working.

Since this laptop is not shipped with a dedicated GPU (if there was one, it would have been a lot easier to hackintosh!), it lags and becomes unusable for day to day tasks. To get it to work, I first need to fix HW Acceleration on Radeon Vega 8. This thread can be used for discussing about other Ryzen APUs as well.

Any help is appreciated!

[AlvaroSilvaGoncalves]

Boas notícias - aparentemente o WhateverRed kext atingiu um estado em que a aceleração de hardware funciona em APUs baseadas em Raven/Raven2, e eu consegui alcançar a aceleração total no meu laptop Picasso (Ryzen 3 3250U) com ele!

Aqui estão algumas capturas de tela:

Poderia me enviar a EFI que você usou ?

[SsNiPeR1]

I have some good news for y'all: NootedRed (formerly WhateverRed) is already working on all AMD iGPUs, in all macOS versions starting from Big Sur. However, hardware encoding/decoding still doesn't work, and it will crash (panic) if you try to run anything that uses it, but devs are close to make VCN working too. Also, you can join their Telegram chat: https://t.me/NootInc

[VisualEhrmanntraut]

correction: the VCN crashes/panics will not happen unless you enable the experimental feature with a boot arg

[chteow]

Good news - apparently the WhateverRed kext has reached a state where hardware acceleration works on Raven/Raven2-based APUs, and I've managed to achieve full acceleration on my Picasso (Ryzen 3 3250U) laptop with it!

Here are some screenshots:

can share the config.plist ? and the whateverred.kext that you uses?

[MiddlemanTM]

Hi folks,

I just wanted to leave this with you and say a big thank you to all involved! I recently managed to get NootedRed finally working on the Atari VCS. Not only does it work on Monterey with the Vega 3 but it can display in full 4K resolution! For the settings I've currently set my VRAM BIOS to 8GB but it can go as high as 16GB!

The problem to the reason why the VCS didn't work before was twofold. The first was I didn't know where to look for the VRAM adjustment (as the VCS has so many settings - over 80+ in BIOS) and secondly an (obvious) lack of a driver plus proper settings for OC despite the Picasso supposedly having working system-level drivers in macOS since Catalina. So thanks everyone!

[mvaisakh]

Since NootedRed has working acceleration I hereby close this issue and am stopping this thread for further replies.