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Latitude E6420 (i7 HD3000): I want to install Big Sur


YashSoni

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OCLP tool has evolved a lot since then so feel free to experiment with it. My advise is to:

  1. 1st install Big Sur with SMBIOS of a supported MacBook Pro (eg: MBP11,4 or MBP11,2). It'll be very slow with poor performance on 1st boot setup.
  2. once Big Sur is installed (without graphics acceleration), download latest version of OCLP but don't run it.
  3. modify your bootloader's config to change SMBIOS to MBP8,1 and add boot arg -no_compat_check.
  4. reboot Big Sur and run OCLP, applying only the SIP settings and the legacy graphics settings.
  5. if you use OpenCore, make sure to apply Reset NVRAM at OC Picker when you reboot after you've changed your config file. 

On reboot, your should be running Big Sur with OpenGL-only (no Metal) graphics acceleration. But, as I said so many times, it won't be bug free and you will experiment those graphics defect everybody does. Ideally, upgrade your RAM to 8GB so that macOS allocates 512MB to VRAM.

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