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Any news about the Macbook Pro Nvidia GPU lag yet?
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And it’s a good idea to request support from Nvidia as well. Just in case this issue can be fixed via web driver, they may able to do something about it (only if they know this issue).
I reckon this should be helpful, I've found a site that catalogues all of the NVIDIA GPU drivers for each point update of MacOS all the way from 10.6 to present:
http://www.macvidcards.com/drivers.html
In my case the problem appears to have stopped, I removed the CUDA driver on my 750M MBP eventually reinstalling it alongside the NVIDIA macOS driver and the problem didn't come back (in my case).
http://www.macvidcards.com/drivers.html
In my case the problem appears to have stopped, I removed the CUDA driver on my 750M MBP eventually reinstalling it alongside the NVIDIA macOS driver and the problem didn't come back (in my case).
Another disgruntled late 2013 MacBook Pro user here.
Experiencing lag when connected to an LG 27UD58 4K monitor with scaling set to 1440p.
Mac has Geforce 750M.
I just upgraded the Nvidia drivers etc, will report back with my findings.
UPDATE: It's even worse, cannot use my 4K monitor at all.
Experiencing lag when connected to an LG 27UD58 4K monitor with scaling set to 1440p.
Mac has Geforce 750M.
I just upgraded the Nvidia drivers etc, will report back with my findings.
UPDATE: It's even worse, cannot use my 4K monitor at all.
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I managed to significantly improve the lag on my iMac (late 2013, GeForce GTX 775M) by installing the previous version of the Nvidia web driver (WebDriver-378.10.10.10.25.106). The current version of the Nvidia driver is awful, and is much worse than even the standard OSX driver.
You need to use a tool to force OSX to install the older driver even though it technically isn't meant to run on 10.13.3. This tool (in German, unfortunately) will force the system to install the older driver: https://www.hackintosh-forum.de/ind...eiber-all-Version-update-App-für-High-Sierra/
Although it is meant for Hackintoshes, this TonyMacx86 thread is the best place for details on this process: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/macos-10-13-3-update.243852/
The graphics performance isn't quite as good as it was on 10.12, but really not that bad overall. It was almost unusable before.
You need to use a tool to force OSX to install the older driver even though it technically isn't meant to run on 10.13.3. This tool (in German, unfortunately) will force the system to install the older driver: https://www.hackintosh-forum.de/ind...eiber-all-Version-update-App-für-High-Sierra/
Although it is meant for Hackintoshes, this TonyMacx86 thread is the best place for details on this process: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/macos-10-13-3-update.243852/
The graphics performance isn't quite as good as it was on 10.12, but really not that bad overall. It was almost unusable before.
I have the 2013 rMBP 750M issues as well. I opened a Radar with Apple, they wanted me to run a bunch of tests for them, I said, sorry, I had to downgrade to Sierra to actually, you know, get work done. They closed the Radar.
Downgrade to the .106 version using the process that I described. It is 100x better.
Yes as I mentioned earlier. Didnt help.
They still didnt fixed graphic issues with facetime popup on mixed retina/non-retina displays.
Went ahead and hosted this tool on dropbox since the german forum site requires registration in order to download. I also just downgraded to .106 because .156 was terrible on my late '13 MBPro. Too early for me tell if it made a difference or not.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1t5c1hvzssryiig/Webdriver All Versions.app.zip?dl=0
The different between .156 and .106 is night and day for me. The difference between .156 and the generic OSX driver is more subtle, but I find that it takes longer to start freezing. If you use a tool like iStat, you'll see that the VRAM takes longer to fill up, which is usually when the stuttering starts.
Nice, will check out iStat to track VRAM... That was also an annoying bit - not being able to see the diminishing performance stats in Activity Monitor.
I think we need to wait to macOS 10.14.
Seirously, if there will no be fix for it I will change my laptop.
Seirously, if there will no be fix for it I will change my laptop.
Yeah, it would be nice if Apple would add GPU and VRAM stats to Activity Monitor. It's a whole class of issues that's isn't really visible with the current setup. Although considering how much confusion there is over things like RAM usage, I can understand why they wouldn't want to add more information that will possibly be misinterpreted.
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I wonder if it's a fundamental issue with how nvidida graphics work and Metal 2. The fact that the newest nvidia web driver makes things far, far worse isn't encouraging.
You mean the version 158 and 159 web driver?
https://images.nvidia.com/mac/pkg/387/WebDriver-387.10.10.10.25.158.pkg
https://images.nvidia.com/mac/pkg/387/WebDriver-387.10.10.10.25.159.pkg
