Hi All,
This is my first Hackintosh build, been through some issues with Audio but mostly it worked out of the box, and yet I think I have possibly missed some crucial step as the graphics performance seems to be way below what I would expect from the card. At first glance everything is great, card seems to work out the box but when I tested out some games, Heroes of the Storm runs at 13fps in the menus (it actually runs a bit better in the game) but also, it looks like the card isn't even being pushed to be used much according to iStat when I check during a game... In windows on this setup i get 100+ FPS in Heroes. Warcraft isn't really playable, It's very 'choppy' is all I can describe it as, with very poor FPS also.
I understand games will always run better on Win vs Mac but this doesn't feel right to me as my ancient MacPro (2006 - 2x 2.66 DC Xeon) on Yosemite with an NVIDIA 670 runs both games much better.
Specs are -
CPU: i5 2400 3.4GHz RAM: 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3-1600 Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 WS Revolution GPU: AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB
The R9 is being detected as AMD 7xxx chipset on El Capitan (10.10.3), I read a couple of threads that say this is a cosmetic issue but also threads about it still causing a framebuffer issue, could this be what is giving me very low FPS in games? I was hoping someone could help me figure this out, perhaps with my Clover settings? as it's all quite new to me. What I found so far on this...
R9 270X being detected as AMD 7xxx chipset on El Capitan
Radeon R9 270X framebuffer issue
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