Big sure hackintosh on old mac (Nvidia)

[Frugivore8894]

I have a old 2013 mac and it doesn't support big sur and I want to hack it to get big sure. this is my first experience with a Hackintosh and I have no clue how to do it. I know big sur does not support Nvidia drivers so how would I do it? if no one knows its fine but I though this might be the right place to check before giving up.

[mahyar]

full specs of your mac?

[Electronics Wizardy]

what 2013 mac? people have tried this before, and things like wifi likes to not be supported.

 

Look here https://github.com/barrykn/big-sur-micropatcher

[Frugivore8894]

32 minutes ago, mahyar said:

full specs of your mac?

hear are the specs 

intel i5-4570 3.2 GHz 

GPU Nvidia GeForce GT 755M 

16 GB DDR3 RAM

2TB fusion drive HDD

 

and yes its boot camped for 209 GB so I can play games and yes this is what I game on

[Coolmaster]

11 minutes ago, Frugivore8894 said:

hear are the specs 

intel i5-4570 3.2 GHz 

GPU Nvidia GeForce GT 755M 

16 GB DDR3 RAM

2TB fusion drive HDD

 

and yes its boot camped for 209 GB so I can play games and yes this is what I game on

Hey, I almost have the exact same spec Mac with the same problem.

[Frugivore8894]

2 minutes ago, Coolmaster said:

Hey, I almost have the exact same spec Mac with the same problem.

mine was a hand me down for my grandpa

 

[elsandosgrande]

Aren't NVIDIA GPUs unsupported in macOS? I'm not sure if there is a way without getting NVIDIA drivers through some method.

Edited November 15, 2020 by elsandosgrande

[Coolmaster]

11 minutes ago, elsandosgrande said:

Aren't NVIDIA GPUs unsupported in macOS? I'm not sure if there is a way without getting NVIDIA drivers through some method.

At least for Catalina, Nvidia was still supported.

[elsandosgrande]

2 minutes ago, Coolmaster said:

At least for Catalina, Nvidia was still supported.

Oh. I had heard that macOS has not had NVIDIA driver support ever since Apple hardware stopped shipping with NVIDIA GPUs. I'm sorry if I was mistaken.

[Frugivore8894]

I was told they stored supporting them in Big Sur 

[Electronics Wizardy]

4 hours ago, elsandosgrande said:

Oh. I had heard that macOS has not had NVIDIA driver support ever since Apple hardware stopped shipping with NVIDIA GPUs. I'm sorry if I was mistaken.

well the gpu is supported if it came with the mac and is running. supported os, so they probably have anouther year or two of support nvidia gpus in the 2014 mac book pro 15's

 

8 hours ago, Frugivore8894 said:

hear are the specs 

intel i5-4570 3.2 GHz 

GPU Nvidia GeForce GT 755M 

16 GB DDR3 RAM

2TB fusion drive HDD

 

and yes its boot camped for 209 GB so I can play games and yes this is what I game on

What model number of Imac?

 

Might as well give it a shot, look over the features that have issues first to see if it breaks anything. Id keep the current version though, really no reason to go to os 11

[Frugivore8894]

iMac (27-inch, Late 2013) 

Is this what you are looking for don't know.

[JOOT49]

You could always try hackintoshing it to catalina and trying to update it like that. Or you could just buy a new computer if you really want OS11 ;)

[Frugivore8894]

Its on catalina 

[JOOT49]

1 minute ago, Frugivore8894 said:

Its on catalina 

Yes, but you could trick it into thinking it cannot support catalina and the update it to big sur, but that is just a suggestion

[Frugivore8894]

ok I will look in to that

 

[Frugivore8894]

I think i have a lot of info to look over and try but feel free to keep posting if you have an idea.

[mahyar]

1 minute ago, Frugivore8894 said:

I think i have a lot of info to look over and try but feel free to keep posting if you have an idea.

have you tried nvidia web drivers?

those that are used with hackintosh?

[Frugivore8894]

no but i will look in to that. thank you.

[ProjectBox153]

I take it you have an Early 2013 Mac? If so then you will need to use a patcher utility to install Big Sur. The Nvidia GPU shouldn't be an issue (though I haven't verified that) as older Nvidia GPUs are still supported. Newer cards (like the 10 series) are no longer supported. 

[Coolmaster]

9 minutes ago, ProjectBox153 said:

I take it you have an Early 2013 Mac? If so then you will need to use a patcher utility to install Big Sur. The Nvidia GPU shouldn't be an issue (though I haven't verified that) as older Nvidia GPUs are still supported. Newer cards (like the 10 series) are no longer supported. 

The 2012/early 2013 iMacs Wifi isn't supported, and Hard Drive performance takes a big hit, but otherwise they work fine with Big Sur.

 

Here's a link to getting Big Sur on unsupported Macs https://github.com/barrykn/big-sur-micropatcher

[Frugivore8894]

Thank you but I don’t have Ethernet weird though my house so can’t do that but we could think of a extension of the WiFi with a Ethernet out in to the room where it is.

[JOOT49]

8 minutes ago, Frugivore8894 said:

Thank you but I don’t have Ethernet weird though my house so can’t do that but we could think of a extension of the WiFi with a Ethernet out in to the room where it is.

I would recommend just waiting until the hackintosh community can figure something out. Thats my advice