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

[Blindedbythelights]

Hmm this broke my Nvidia audio over DP. I had previously used NvidiaGraphicsFixup / Lilu to fix this. Is there a new method to fix audio?

Interested to know how you got audio working over DP as I'd like to make that work. Any tips / guides? I currently use a firewire audio card for audio but might be useful to get DP audio working.

 

[wideb]

Probably the best stable version under High Sierra (10.13.4), really smooth !

GPU : Gigabyte AORUS GeForce® GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 11G
MB : Gigabyte AORUS GA-Z270X-Gaming K5
CPU : i7 7700K (OC 5Ghz)

Kexts : NvidiaGraphicsFixup 1.2.5 & Lilu 1.2.3

Thank you for the hard work

 

[Lunks]

I can confirm all the slowdowns are gone using NvidiaGraphicsFixup and the latest NVidia driver.

 

[izo1]

I can confirm all the slowdowns are gone using NvidiaGraphicsFixup and the latest NVidia driver.

Can you confirm that if you have Adobe apps open for example that use OpenCL (like Premiere or Photoshop) with big projects open, the lags are gone?

It seems that when you do basic things like browsing in Safari it will work ok but once your GPU RAM starts to fill up there is some type of memory leak in the drivers related to WindowServer and nVidia.

 

[Lunks]

Can you confirm that if you have Adobe apps open for example that use OpenCL (like Premiere or Photoshop) with big projects open, the lags are gone?

It seems that when you do basic things like browsing in Safari it will work ok but once your GPU RAM starts to fill up there is some type of memory leak in the drivers related to WindowServer and nVidia.

Sorry, I don't have access to Adobe programs (I'm a developer). I have tried Dota 2 which uses OpenGL and most of the stutters that happened before look to be fixed. I also used to get ~80FPS and now I'm at ~120FPS so things seem to be improved a bit.

 

[izo1]

Sorry, I don't have access to Adobe programs (I'm a developer). I have tried Dota 2 which uses OpenGL and most of the stutters that happened before look to be fixed. I also used to get ~80FPS and now I'm at ~120FPS so things seem to be improved a bit.

Can you run opengl test in cinebench?

Also run the waterGL in browser see if it stutters. If it does then it’s not fixed yet.

 

[m4c0ser]

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... 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

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.

Update to all this.
I tried the latest NvidiaGraphicsFixup.kext 1.2.5 (I was using ver 1.1.2, shocking). It didn't produce any visual improvement in Chrome.

Then I found the driver patch script https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/nvidia-update and decided give a try to .106 version

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Benjamin-Dobell/nvidia-update/master/nvidia-update.sh) 378.10.10.10.25.106

That seemed to help.

 

[wideb]

Can you run opengl test in cinebench?

Also run the waterGL in browser see if it stutters. If it does then it’s not fixed yet.

 

[kobever]

Can you confirm that if you have Adobe apps open for example that use OpenCL (like Premiere or Photoshop) with big projects open, the lags are gone?

It seems that when you do basic things like browsing in Safari it will work ok but once your GPU RAM starts to fill up there is some type of memory leak in the drivers related to WindowServer and nVidia.

With all the latest drivers, my system (GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4095 MB) was never so smooth. All the lags and hiccups are gone. Davinci Resolve is no problem, with CUDA.
But, start Adobe Indesign with GPU acceleration and the whole system becomes unusable. There are black, gray and white triangles all over the place, even in the finder. Tried to uninstall CUDA, but that doesn't change anything.

Update: the triangles are gone, but all the Adobe applications crashes 50% of the time.

 

[frontgear]

Can you confirm that if you have Adobe apps open for example that use OpenCL (like Premiere or Photoshop) with big projects open, the lags are gone?

I can confirm that Photoshop works without lags using the latest Lilu and NVidiaGraphicsFixup.