Thanks to Benjamin Dobell who created a script that patches the latest Nvidia Web Driver to work on Mojave.
Google search: Benjamin-Dobell/nvidia-update
On his github look for “DOWNLOADING THE SCRIPT” TYPE THOSE 2 LINES THEN TYPE nvidia-update.sh ENTER. FOR ELABORATION FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:
Open terminal and type or cut and paste each line below
curl -O <and the link that is supplied for script “nvidia-update.sh”>
PRESS ENTER BEFORE ENTERING NEXT LINE
chmod 755 nvidia-update.sh
AGAIN PRESS ENTER
nvidia-update.sh
PRESS ENTER
THIS IS IT. THE SCRIPT IS RUNNING-FOLLOW PROMPTS WHEN ASK FOR PASSWORD THIS WILL BE YOUR LOG ON SCREEN PASSWORD. WHEN ASK FOR [Y/n] TYPE IN Y IN UPPERCASE not lowercase
RESTART COMPUTER
ON TOP BAR OF MAC’s SCREEN RIGHT CLICK THE NOW INSTALLED NVIDIA ICON AND CHECK TO SEE IF “NVIDIA WEB DRIVER” IS CHECKED. RESTART IF REQUIRED.
MESSAGE ME IF YOU NEED HELP or IM AT chroenix#1119 the only requirement is that you are open to playing 1 arena match with my RSHAM- just kidding.
Typical troll post. Ignore it.
It’s always been possible to just install the older High Sierra nVidia web drivers on Mojave by changing the expected OS build number in the installer.
The problem is that it doesn’t actually run or function because of drastic changes to how Mojave runs GPU acceleration through Metal.
nVidia needs to write brand new drivers, and Apple needs to pass them.
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This script predates Mojave anyway so it’s not even claiming to work.
People should not use this.
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You guys are just strange. Im trying to help bc I went to the same struggle. Just go to his website. I tried it and works for me BUT try at your own risk.
Google search: Benjamin-Dobell/nvidia-update
All the other stuff I wrote was to help if you have trouble with technical stuff.
Please dont respond if its not constructive.
What you linked was a script that does what Omegall already talks about in the stickied nVidia thread. Some newer drivers have performance regressions on older video cards, so that script picks the best one for that OS/GPU combination. But only for High Sierra and older. You don’t even need it if you’re following Omegall’s links.
If you haven’t noticed, that script hasn’t been updated in over 9 months. It’s not even for Mojave.
As I said in my original reply, Mojave does NOT have official nVidia drivers yet. Trying to use an old driver on it could produce any number of issues ranging from graphical glitches to wild system instability.
If this really was intended to be helpful and not a troll post, you have a lot of learning left to do before you go recommending things you don’t understand.
It doesn’t actually work if you pay more attention. It’s been tested and thoroughly vetted as useless on 10.14. All the 10.13 drivers do on 10.14 is allow OS to recognize device. Meaning it’ll say the nvidia gpu exists but nothing more. There is no hardware acceleration what so ever. if you have hardware acceleration still, it’s the IGP doing it and it’s not very strong. The nvidia gpu will do no acceleration in 10.14 and all you managed to do was add gpu name to system information (purely cosmetic)
I see, can you delete this post? I dont want to mislead anyone.