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NVIDIA Releases Alternate Graphics Drivers for macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 (387.10.10.10.30)

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Sounds like it's a right thread.

So, after upgrading to 10.13.4 yesterday. I noticed Chrome was super sluggish, especially with 2D acceleration, like sliding down a part of the screen. images.google.com is a good example. Google for an image and then pick one. It will expand that image and the rest of the screen will be slid down. That part was very slow.

I spent some time digging through this on the web, found a couple flags in Chrome that did nothing, then broke my Chrome completely, used Firefox to find a solution to recovered it... :crazy: Anyway, long story short - without Hardware acceleration it works WAY faster. The CPU utilization noticeably kicks up, but I have 8700K that can handle it. I actually would upgrade to ATI, but this sucks :cry:

I have NVidia GTX 950 video (with 103 driver), Z370 Aorus Gaming WIFI (without working wifi/bt as it's not supported, lol) and i7 8700K as I mentioned it.

I do have 2 monitors, but I'm not using the built in video, at all. It's disabled in BIOS.
 
Glad to see that your system is running properly ETX. I have a similar setup (i7 6700 Skylake,and an EVGA GTX 1060 6gb card as well). Been having lag issues and weird graphic artifacts in FCPX. Whether it's a preview for some of the generators/plugins/etc, or after rendering, the graphics get crazy. I'm hoping this will fix it.

I recognized same artifacts in FCPX, so went back to .106. Safari is also not that much smooth. No lags but also not very smooth!
 
Since the update: (1) Safari is showing weird fracturing (I've never seen this in all my years of computing. (2) Photoshop and Adobe Bridge continue to crash. Another first in 20 years of Adobe products. I guess I'll be headed back to 10.13.3.

Headed back to .106 Web Driver. Seems to have solve the problems, go figure.
 
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Apple broke (or sabotaged) eGPU support for NVIDIA in 10.13.4 - could be related to that. If it works on dual cards WITHOUT NvidiaGraphicsFixup (but with lag) could be related to v1.2.5 changes.
The only difference without NvidiaGraphicsFixup v1.2.5 is system lag. Put my 2nd card back in and reverted back to patched 106... all hail the Benjamin-Dobell blacklist!
 
The only difference without NvidiaGraphicsFixup v1.2.5 is system lag. Put my 2nd card back in and reverted back to patched 106... all hail the Benjamin-Dobell blacklist!
I'm back on .106 with Benjamin-Dobell blacklist and now I've got more lag (but apps not crashing) than with .103

Still crashing apps so I am Restoring back to 10.13.3. Not perfect but I cannot function with a crap system.
 
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I have this setup (I'm not a pro in hackintosh):

1. Latest Shiki
2. Additional bootflag "shikigva=60" (this is just experimental number, I really don't understand why "60" but for me it works)
3. My ig-platform-id is 0x59120003
4. Also I have "Inject Intel"
5. As you can see above I have some intel & fakepciid kexts (in OTHER folders of Clover EFI)
6. In BIOS mode I choose "Auto" in section of the graphics priority (betweet PCI/internal video)
7. In the same BIOS mode section I set 128M as video memory

that it. Just for me.

In the "Graphics/Monitors" section of System Information of OSX I see the only my PCI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070.

MacX VideoConverter Pro show me HES as YES.
Also I have pretty fast Bruce 5K encoding test (about 30-40 seconds) in the FCPX.
And I have me own Motion 5 test that show me really sweet performance (compare to the 10.13.2 + .104 driver)
Thanks for sharing. I might have to hit you up and compare notes to get mine up and running again.
 
I tested my GTX 980 Ti and my GTX 1070ti. Running better, but still some way away from my Vega 56.

I got an ASUS ROG Strix Vega 56 because of the 3 fans. Does anybody know if i should send it back and get one from SAPPHIRE or XFX like apple recommended or is the custom design not that important?

Edit: would love to keep my GTX, but i think the Vega 56 runs way to smooth. And this won't change that fast...
 
The only difference without NvidiaGraphicsFixup v1.2.5 is system lag. Put my 2nd card back in and reverted back to patched 106... all hail the Benjamin-Dobell blacklist!
FYI - To avoid "the black screen," make sure you revert to Lilu v1.2.2 & NvidiaGraphicsFixupv 1.2.4 when reverting back to *25.106. When I tried to use the unreleased kexts with the older driver, I got the black screen.
 
@vulgo The kexts in EFI/Clover/Kexts/Other: FakeSMC, Lilu, and NvidiaGraphicsFixup.

[EDIT] I included content that were unrelated to this thread. I fixed the issue.
 
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