MacOS Mojave on Intel 3000 & 2000 Graphics

Oct 7, 2018 by Pratik N Borkar 2 Comments

macOS Mojave ….! Finally, after waiting for a long period of three months Apple has revealed macOS Mojave 10.14. Every year apple comes with a new version of macOS, iOS, etc and they showcase their new features during the Apple event (WWDC). This year apple comes with macOS Mojave. This version of macOS comes with many more cool features which amaze apple fans but they stop supporting older Graphics such as Intel HD 3000 / 2000 Graphics which annoys people who still using older Graphics. This is guide is for those guys. Here I will show you how to enable Graphics acceleration. So let’s start to install macOS Mojave on Intel 3000 / 2000 Graphics

macOS Bootable Installer Using createinstallmedia. Mojave Updated

macOS Mojave on Intel 3000 / 2000 ( SandyBridge and Arrandale )

Intel 1st Generation CPUs are having intel 2000 Graphics which include the following CPU

Intel Core i3-330M
Intel Core i3-350M
Intel Core i5-450M
Intel Core i5-520M
Intel Core i5-540M
Intel Core i7-620M

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This is the Laptop CPU but you can take a Reference from Intel site. As far as I know, to enable the Intel Graphics you need to have the following kext that enables Graphics acceleration

AppleIntelHDGraphicsFB.kext
AppleIntelHDGraphicsGA.plugin
AppleIntelHDGraphicsGLDriver.bundle
AppleIntelHDGraphicsVADriver.bundle

Apple has stopped supporting those Graphics since after Yosemite so you can extract those kext from Yosemite. And From macOS Mojave Apple has stopped supporting Intel HD 3000 graphics. This kext enables the Intel HD 3000 Graphics.

AppleIntelHD3000Graphics.kext
AppleIntelHD3000GraphicsGA.plugin
AppleIntelHD3000GraphicsGLDriver.bundle
AppleIntelHD3000GraphicsVADriver.bundle
AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB.kext
AppleIntelSNBVA.bundle

To enable the Graphics Acceleration of Intel 3000 Graphics you need to roll back those kext from macOS Sierra.

Intel HD 2000

Intel HD 3000

Quick Note:- To enable older Graphics simply roll back Intel Graphics Kext from Yosemite and macOS Sierra and copy to /System/Library/Extensions/ and rebuilt the cache.

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Every one Calls him Freak Smart-Ass as tittle but no one knows that he is Avid Apple Fan & Technophilic who passionate about new techno kind a stuff and Apple's new creation like OS X and iOS, Also He likes to share useful tips, techniques and resources for Hackintosh and Macintosh for Apple addicts with his Personal Blog