OpenCore Haswell running smoothly and stable

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In the past I tried in vain to build a Clover-based Hackintosh. Last week I gave OpenCore a shot on that very system, and I succeeded! I followed the OpenCore Desktop Guide for Haswell systems closely, even building the SSDTs manually using MaciASL and the templates provided with the guide.

Audio is working after setting alcid=11 in the boot-args key in config.plist. Bluetooth worked out-of-the-box with my cheap USB dongle (see hardware specs below). Booting from the SSD also works.

I had trouble with my GPU, though. There was a GTX 750Ti in that box. I tried to disable it with -wegnoegpu boot parameter and additionally with SSDT-GPU-DISABLE, but I could not boot. As I removed the GPU from the box, I was able to boot and installation was easy from then on.

System versions:

OpenCore 0.5.9macOS Catalina 10.15.5SMBIOS: iMac 14,1

Things that don't work so far (and I haven't really tried to get them working):

• Sleep
• USB mapping
• Dual monitor setup

Software used successfully so far:

Adobe PhotoshopMS OfficeiTunes for playing Apple MusicNotes iCloudSkype (no call so far, but my USB headset and my USB camera are working)Install apps from the Mac App Storeand a lot more like Textmate, Chrome, Slack, 1Password etc.

My hardware:

Mainboard: Asus Z97-PBIOS: 2907 (03/11/2016) [latest available update]Chipsatz: Z97CPU: i5-4460 (Haswell)iGPU: HD 4600LAN: Realtek 8111GRAudio: Realtek ALC891 (Layout 11)RAM: 16GB (4x 4GB) from two different vendorsBluetooth-USB-Dongle: TP-Link UB400 (Cambridge Silicon Radio)

boot-args: -v keepsyms=1 debug=0x100 alcid=11

And my EFI:

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