Desktop feels laggy and chrome very slow

[smileyint]

It's a problem with the NVIDIA drivers for 10.13.3 (156/157)! If you install the 10.13.2 drivers (106) using the backwards compatible tool linked below, then everything goes back to normal. No Lag.

Driver versions can be found here: https://www.tonymacx86.com/nvidia-drivers/

1. Install the latest driver (156/157)
2. Use the `Webdriver All Versions.app` to install 106 driver
- If you need a DL link for the app, here it is https://drive.google.com/open?id=1hI4dqVZ621fPeKR6YFoLFQGD-ciiZ3xO
- Open the app, choose „Webdriver neu installieren“ („Reinstall web driver“), choose the old webdriver *.pkg file – the app installs the old driver.
3. Restart the app
4. choose „Vorhandenen Webdriver Patchen“ („patch existing web driver“)
– click through, choose „Rechte bereinigen“ („correct permissions“) enter admin password
5. Reboot using the button on the app (takes a few moments)

Credit to: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/macos-10-13-3-update.243852/page-13#post-1677090

I can vouch it actually works. Thanks turtleguy.

 

[TheGeek]

Can anybody set this thread to solved? I had this problem on my Working-Hackintosh to and downgrading the the NVIDIA Drivers works just fine On my Gaming-Hackintosh i don't need this fix.

 

[Martinos89]

For me the nVidia driver fix, is only a part of the fix.
My mac was already slow before the update to 10.13. And now still is after the nVidia fix, altough it's not as slow as without the fix.

Any ideas?

 

[Laurin201605]

It's a problem with the NVIDIA drivers for 10.13.3 (156/157)! If you install the 10.13.2 drivers (106) using the backwards compatible tool linked below, then everything goes back to normal. No Lag.

Thank you. Much better now.

 

[kittycat.79]

I went through your instructions but when I select the old webdriver (106), I get an error that says "No web driver chosen!" and the "Abort" button (see image). I tried it several times and confirmed I have 156 installed (157 won't install because I don't have the correct version of 13.3.3).

Any idea what I'm missing/messing up?

Thanks!

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I had the same problem. But the script from this site worked for me: https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/nvidia-update (it is also recommended in another thread on the topic)

 

[fabrik]

So, I have a question:
Since Turtleguy found out about the workaround, what Do we do now? I mean Nvidia keeps asking to update to the newer version, do we notify Nvidia? or what?
Thanks
Fab

 

[owang]

For me the nVidia driver fix, is only a part of the fix.
My mac was already slow before the update to 10.13. And now still is after the nVidia fix, altough it's not as slow as without the fix.

Any ideas?

Yea it's definitely not 100% fixed. It just reduces the lag a little bit. Wonder what the rest of the lag is caused by...
I have noticed it slows down over time. After a few days of uptime everything is much slower.

 

[Burninator]

Also had this issue on a GTX 970. Installing the old drivers via https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/nvidia-update has made it usable again, at least. Thanks for the thread!

 

[Nortonyodles]

I was getting shutter while switching workspaces while chrome was active on one desktop. I don't see any shuttering problem with Firefox. Disabling the GPU acceleration on Chrome fix the issue. At least I don't have to go back to Sierra now.

Well that was a gold nugget. Thanks. Did you ever get any further than just plain switching off GPU acceleration?

 

[bufferOverflow]

Well that was a gold nugget. Thanks. Did you ever get any further than just plain switching off GPU acceleration?

Try following suggestion:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...erra-downgrade-to-sierra.244181/#post-1687503