I recently installed the Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming card in my hackintosh, which until recently, was not supported by Yosemite 10.10.1. It was a fairly easy process, but took a little extra effort than installing a supported card for OS X. I thought you folks that were having some trouble with the 970 might find some use in the process.
Part 1- I started with a successful install of OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 on my computer. Boot loader is Chimera, installed with Mulibeast. Specs:
i7 4790k
Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H
16 Gigs Corsair Vengeance 1600
250 Samsung 840 EVO SSD
OG GPU: Gigabyte GTX 760
Part 2- 1) The next step was downloading the unlocked Nvidia driver from mediafire, as seen here After downloading the files, I shut down my computer.
2) I installed the new GTX 970 card and restarted, using the bootflag "nv_disable=1" when given the option to in my bootloader. Without this, the startup bar froze halfway through loading into OS X, so this is a necessary step. If this does not work than use "-x"
3) When I got into the Desktop, I opened the pre downloaded Nvidia Driver files and installed them. I also installed the graphics driver update that popped up after I had finished the installation. Rebooted, using the same bootflag "nv_disable=1" to get in.
4) I then went to Finder>Macintosh HD>Extra>org.chameleon.Boot.plist and opened it with TextEdit. I added the line:
<string>nvda_drv=1</string>
under the line:
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
I already had a few other lines under the Kernel Flags line, but I simply added the nvda_drv=1 on its own line beneath it. The final product looks like this:
<key>Kernel Flags</key> <string>nvda_drv=1</string>
5) I then saved this, crossed every finger I have, and rebooted. I got a successful boot.
The GTX 970 is working very well, and even the CUDA functionality was not compromised by the installation process. The card is also recognized by the System Profiler and the NVIDIA driver manager. I was sure to turn the graphics to "Nvidia web driver" in system prefs, as using "OS X Default graphics Driver" resulted in some inconsistencies when booting up.
As a side note, I had some trouble installing the GTX 760 when I first put together the machine. I ended up having to turn off the integrated graphics (HD 4600) in my CPU to force the system to use the graphics card instead. For some reason it kept defaulting back to the integrated graphics. This could probably be an issue with installing an unsupported card, so I would suggest turning off your CPU's graphics in the BIOS before starting to install a GTX 970, 980, 750ti, etc, or any GPU for that matter.
Happy hackintoshing!
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