Alienware-15R3-High-Sierra-Hackintosh

Think of this as a notepad for now. I'll organize this better once everything works fine.

I've tested this on the Alienware 15R3 with the i7 6700HQ processor.

Reaching the installer

I couldn't reach the installer, first it would't boot, then it would boot to a black screen.

  • I used OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000.efi and deleted the original OsxAptioFix2Drv.
  • Changed ig-platform-id for Intel to 0x12345678 (this fixed the black screen)

Installing

I installed to a mechanical hard drive using a hfs+ partition. Nothing weird happened here.

After the install

Display

After the installation it would boot to a black screen. I changed ig-platform-id back to 0x12160000.

I used this guide in order to make the brightness control work. For some reason it wont't reach the minimum brightness necesary to turn off the display. It's a shame beause I use an external display and would like to have the laptop display off.

Audio

I used this, which someone linked here. Just put AppleHDA.kext for clover to use, and run ALCPlugFix. This fixes the sound for headphones.

Power management

HWPEnable works fine.

Some profiles for HWPValue:

  • 80002301 - middle point
  • 64002301 - little more performance (moderate mode)
  • 94002301 - little more battery saving (same setting as on real MacBook9,1)