# acidanthera/WhateverGreen

Various patches necessary for certain ATI/AMD/Intel/Nvidia GPUs

Repository: https://github.com/acidanthera/WhateverGreen
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/whatevergreen
Language: C++
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: whatevergreen
Last push: 2026-08-12T04:46:36+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 69/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 16, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3325, "days_push": 21, "days_rel": 422, "gap_med": 135.5, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3383, forks 644 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:58.689860+00:00)

## What it is
WhateverGreen is a Lilu kernel extension (kext) plugin that applies various patches to ATI/AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA GPUs on macOS, primarily for Hackintosh systems. It fixes black screens, sleep/wake issues, connector and multimonitor problems, and enables hardware video encode/decode on otherwise unsupported cards.

## Use cases
- fix black screen on boot with AMD or NVIDIA GPU on a Hackintosh
- fix sleep wake black screen on AMD graphics in macOS
- enable multimonitor support with corrected connector patches
- enable hardware video encoding on unsupported Radeon cards
- fix choppy video playback on Intel Kaby Lake and newer
- enable DisplayPort to HDMI 2.0 output via LSPCON on Intel graphics
- boot macOS without GPU video acceleration for troubleshooting
- use NVIDIA web drivers with Metal apps without transparent window glitches

## When to choose
- you are building or maintaining a Hackintosh and need GPU compatibility patches
- your AMD, Intel, or NVIDIA GPU shows black screens, distorted boot, or broken multimonitor on macOS
- you need HDMI audio or DP-to-HDMI 2.0 fixes on Intel integrated graphics

## When to avoid
- you run macOS on genuine Mac hardware with supported GPUs
- you need a general-purpose graphics driver rather than macOS kernel patches
- your project is not using the Lilu kext framework

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: graphics, middleware, developer-tools
- domain: operating-systems, hardware, graphics, developer-tools
- platform: cpp
- tags: hackintosh, kext, lilu-plugin, gpu-patching, amd, nvidia, intel-igpu, acidanthera, macos

## Member repositories
- acidanthera/WhateverGreen (main) score 69

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:58.689860+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:39:29.292403+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/acidanthera/WhateverGreen (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:58.689860+00:00, sha a0b1ca19d292)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.