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Desktop feels laggy and chrome very slow

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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 love you dude, life saver
 
Only the .104 webdriver runs well on my setup (10.13.3 supplemental update).

.106 onwards is laggy
 
I have very laggy almost unusable box after the 10.13.3 supplemental update with the current 387.10.10.10.25.158 with an Nvidia 980TI (see my side specs)
 
I can't believe this is so bad. smdh. I should've stayed on 10.12. And to think the only reason I updated was to be able to use my Apple Watch to unlock my computer and THAT DOESN'T EVEN WORK HALF THE TIME!!. Thanks for the temp fix @turtleguy. I was able to downgrade and patch .106. Still slightly laggy but a lot better than .158. The only trouble now is that when Nvidia fixes this terrible issue I won't know because the driver thinks it is up to date thanks to this patch. I'll have to keep an eye out every week now.
 
I tried 161 after 106 give me IOConsoleUser error, Chrome is still slow, but InDesign (which was a problem for me on 158) is fast now.

Anyone knows why I might be getting IOConsoleUser with 106??
I tried 161 and chrome was sloooooow, went back to trusty old 103 and all is well again.
 
I swear my video playback in chrome/safari got better after enabling "Above 4G Decoding" in the BIOS. I'm running patched 106 drivers.
 
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