macOS 10.13.3 Supplemental Update

[xupefei]

Updated to latest Clover, initiated update through the App Store, stepped away to answer the door... came back to find my rig on the login screen. Logged in, was prompted to update NVIDIA drivers. Did so, restarted, and machine is running smoothly: audio intact with no screen lag. All is well. Thanks Tonymacx86 community!

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I noticed that you have SkyLake+NVIDIA. Are you using the .158 driver and have you tried running Chrome? Does it lag?

 

[UtterDisbelief]

Putting the files and either 10.13, or Other works...
The problem I’m having is adding the AMD card into the Mix with My Nvidia 1080TI, and the Onboard Intel Graphics.
I would rather be on Nvidia, but I have preformane issues on it. Also these new drivers don’t work at all. I tried to patch the .104, but it’s not working for me for some reason on this update. I can’t boot on Intel graphics on this update (I’m sure it will be corrected in the next “real” update”). The AMD works, but I have to pull my Nvidia card out.
I learned a couple of things... One - using the Nvidia disable flag no longer works in HS, like it did in older version of OSX/MacOS. Two - I can boot in to MacOS using the AMD card without using the Whatever Green kext file, however MacOS shows the card as something else, using the kext file resolves that.
My 1080TI is Watercooled, so pulling the whole thing out would be a pain. I wish I could disable it in the BiOS... Enabling it when I want to game in Windows, however I don’t see an option for that....

Hi there.

Ah, I understand. I must admit mixing AMD and Nvidia is something I haven't tried.

Yes, the AMD support is now available in Clover just by editing config.plist. No need for the kexts, but you're right, the GPU is identified as (usually) "R9 xxx" or similar. You can amend this manually though and I covered this in my build follow-ups (second half).

As for disabling the Nvidia GPU, it's true you can disable the driver easily, but hiding the GPU from macOS probably needs all the official Nvidia kexts removing from the Extensions directory... Unless someone else knows an easier way etc.

 

[KapnKrunch]

No. It's much lower...
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So - I double checked that AirPlay is working, and it is, with the exception of the 4K video demo - weird.

Any ideas as what to do next to get my "VTDecoderXPCService" CPU usage down to a reasonable level?

Thanks PastryChef!

 

[pastrychef]

So - I double checked that AirPlay is working, and it is, with the exception of the 4K video demo - weird.

Any ideas as what to do next to get my "VTDecoderXPCService" CPU usage down to a reasonable level?

Thanks PastryChef!

May I please see your EFI folder?

Also, is Quick Sync working? You can check by launching MacX Video Converter. The free trial can tell...

 

[vmiyoshi]

Hi there.

Ah, I understand. I must admit mixing AMD and Nvidia is something I haven't tried.

Yes, the AMD support is now available in Clover just by editing config.plist. No need for the kexts, but you're right, the GPU is identified as (usually) "R9 xxx" or similar. You can amend this manually though and I covered this in my build follow-ups (second half).

As for disabling the Nvidia GPU, it's true you can disable the driver easily, but hiding the GPU from macOS probably needs all the official Nvidia kexts removing from the Extensions directory... Unless someone else knows an easier way etc.

I was able to get my machine working again on Intel.
I learned quite simply that the Nvidia Webdriver has to be installed and working (key word working), if your machine has an Nvidia card physically installed in it.
Like I was saying in my other post for some reason patching old drivers with my current OS build number wasn't working (though this has worked in the past). Symptoms would be the machine loading with no hardware acceleration strangely the Nvidia control panel would show the "NVIDIA Web driver" selected. I reinstalled the new driver .158, this time my machine loaded with a black screen. Putting NvidiaGraphicsFixup.kext and Lilu.kext files in my 10.13 resolved this.
At this point I was experiencing what most people on his thread were experiencing (very laggy graphics performance).
Configuring my config.plist file, along with my Bios with the necessary things to allow the machine to function on Intel Graphics, and everything is all good at this now! I put the "IntelGraphicsFixup.kext" kext file in for good measure...
From my experience the Nvidia Webdrivers suck, and they have always sucked. Now with these new round of drivers, they really suck. Before these last few drivers, the problem would be hard to spot. I would notice little lag issues, like when moving windows around, or when watching videos. On boot everything would be fine, but after awhile the issues would show up on their own.
I was also able to duplicate the issue at will more recently by playing Beats One. My machine's graphics performance would automatically go to crap. I would recommend really observing your graphics performance, just to make sure your not having the issues I'm describing. I read a lot of post all over the Internet with people describing these issues in different ways, some have even recorded videos of it.
I think I'm going to keep this RX560, it only cost me $129 at my local fryz. Card works beautiful, so if I run into graphics problems I know I can replace my Nvidia card with this in a pinch.
If your work flow is like mine, and your not doing anything graphics intensive with MacOS, and you got Windows installed on another drive to game. You may want to run MacOS off the internal graphics, and Windows off the Nvidia.
I know I'm long winded, but I really hope this helps someone, or maybe Nvidia reads this and fixes their Sh*tty drivers...lol

 

[Kern]

I did the update and it hosed my system, but different than what everyone else is reporting.

TL;DR: My USB keyboards do not work at the login screen. Has anyone run into this before when updating?

Issues
- When booting from "Boot macOS from boot <drive name>" in Verbose mode, it gives me a short list of errors that can be seen in the attached screenshot. This is what I had been using to boot before. The system use to count down from 5 before selecting it, now it doesn't do the countdown anymore.
- When booting from "Boot FileVault Prebooter from Preboot" it does eventually take me to a log in screen, but my keyboard does not work. I have tried a different keyboard and different USB ports, but no keyboard will work. Mouse works fine, so the USB ports seem to function. The keyboard was working at the Chimera loader.
- Booting with Safe Mode doesn't help the keyboard issue.
- At the login screen, it does appear that the nvidia drivers are broken and will need fixed, but I will worry about that once I can log in.

Other Details
- Currently running Chimera 4411.
- System specs in profile on left.

Going to try a time machine backup and then reattempt the install of the patch again and see if I run into the same issue.

 

[Superbogey]

... Except that in Safe Mode you cannot access the EFI partition/folder, so to boot without a black screen, my suggestion is to put them in the Library/Extensions folder.

You can always move them to the EFI partition once you have graphics and don't need Safe Mode.

Wait, what? No EFI in safe mode? Where did you hear that because I'm pretty sure that's not true. If so then my system is a freak because I have NEVER moved my third-party kexts out of the EFI partition and into /Library/Extensions to boot in safe mode. You can't boot without the EFI partition in the first place - except from USB drive and even then, guess what? It has it's own EFI partiton. Clover boot manager in the EFI is one of the basic parts of Hackintoshing. Without it, you'd have to have something like the old Chameleon setup... and we all know how well that still works.

 

[Superbogey]

No. It's much lower...
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Great googly-mooglies! I tried that video on my system and my CPU peaked at 191%!!! Video ran flawlessly on my Acer 4k monitor, though. Is there a way to enable hardware encoding on a GTX 1060 as MacX Video Converter says that it's not supported.

 

[pastrychef]

Great googly-mooglies! I tried that video on my system and my CPU peaked at 191%!!! Video ran flawlessly on my Acer 4k monitor, though. Is there a way to enable hardware encoding on a GTX 1060 as MacX Video Converter says that it's not supported.

Enable IGPU in headless mode.

 

[susudio]

Well, downloaded and clicked install... goes to procedure, reboot... and my system seems the same 17D47 build as before (even Nvidia is working just fine). Something went wrong, I guess... the update doesn't appear at App Store anymore. I will leave at that, since all is working just fine.

You can manually DL update DMG from page 1 link. I was fooled once