NVIDIA Releases Alternate Graphics Drivers for macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 (387.10.10.10.25)

[ReddestDream]

nvda_drv_vrl isn't that for vr?

Not sure. There's no real documentation.

 

[EddyMac]

OK so I updated to 10.3.3 today and installed the Nvidia web drivers for my Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 and seem to be experiencing some lag like others have mentioned. I've read on this thread where people have overcome the lag by going back to the previous version of the drivers. So how is that done? Do I need to uninstall the updated drivers first, and then download and install the drivers for 10.3.2? Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Never mind. Read some earlier posts and figured it out.

 

[ReddestDream]

That's just reinstalling the .104 drivers. The same thing many people here have already done.

So, I had the 156 Webdriver installed on my 2012 rMBP, and I tested again with the stock driver, and performance was consistently better on 10.13.3 stock than it was with the 156 Webdriver. At this point, I'm just thinking that 156/157 are bad releases and Nvidia needs to fix. I've thrown in the towel and just downgraded my hack to the 104 driver. :/

 

[pastrychef]

So, I had the 156 Webdriver installed on my 2012 rMBP, and I tested again with the stock driver, and performance was consistently better on 10.13.3 stock than it was with the 156 Webdriver. At this point, I'm just thinking that 156/157 are bad releases and Nvidia needs to fix. I've thrown in the towel and just downgraded my hack to the 104 driver. :/

Yeah. I'm in a wait and see mode myself.... Hoping that GPU prices drop back to MSRP range...

 

[ReddestDream]

Yeah. I'm in a wait and see mode myself.... Hoping that GPU prices drop back to MSRP range...

Might make more sense to wait for Vega 128 or Navi or whatev . . .

I've got an RX 480 from an old build I could put in but considering High Sierra's horrible multiGPU support and how my BIOS crashes when it tries to POST with monitors connected to an AMD and an Nvidia GPU at the same time, I had decided against it . . .

 

[helmi100]

I've updated yesterday to MacOS 10.13.3 and installed the newest nvidia 156 webdriver with SIP enabled. The update went flawlessly.
I experience no lags in the grafik output. I'm using SMI-BIOS 14.2. Others have reported, that with the usage of this SMI-BIOS no lagging will occur. I think and suppose, that the problem with the newest webdrivers are related to the SMI-BIOS being used.

 

[pastrychef]

I've updated yesterday to MacOS 10.13.3 and installed the newest nvidia 156 webdriver with SIP enabled. The update went flawlessly.
I experience no lags in the grafik output. I'm using SMI-BIOS 14.2. Others have reported, that with the usage of this SMI-BIOS no lagging will occur. I think and suppose, that the problem with the newest webdrivers are related to the SMI-BIOS being used.

I lag like crazy with iMac14,2 system definition.

 

[vecernik]

Which driver version I should get back to using vulgo/webdriver.sh to prevent lagging on 10.13.*?

 

[pastrychef]

Which driver version I should get back to using vulgo/webdriver.sh to prevent lagging on 10.13.*?

.104

 

[XanderW]

I updated from Sierra to High Sierra today. Update went smooth but I got into trouble when I updated the Nvidia web drivers.

I first tried version .156, but it gave me the circling icon on boot and wouldn't boot beyond that. Then I tried reinstalling .156 using SIP 0x00, but same problem.
Then I uninstalled the web drivers and used vulgo/webdriver.sh to install version .106, but I still experienced the same problem. How am I ever gonna get this working? All suggestions are welcome

Edit: also tried the .104 drivers, same problem. What should I do?

Edit2: the exact symptoms are: when I try to boot using nv_disable=1 I get this loading circle on boot which starts overlapping itself and it won't boot. When I try booting without nv_disable=1 I get the black screen on boot / no display output (which I might be able to fix using AGPDfix but I can't get into the system without deleting the web driver / NvidiaWebStart.kext)