GTX 660 glitch issue with MacOS High Sierra 10.13

[Sullastres]

Has anyone tried 10.13.5 ?

Yes, 10.13.5 doesn't solve the problem.

 

[saudor]

now i wonder if it works with 10.14. If it doesnt, we can safely assume 660 is a dead stick

 

[mcloughe]

Went from 10.12.6 to 10.13.5 this weekend. Finally got everything working (lots of pain installing and getting boot from efi working) and then the glitches started. Sigh. Was really hoping to get HS working (mainly to share my family’s iCloud storage account) but heading back to Sierra for now.

 

[chucklezt]

now i wonder if it works with 10.14. If it doesnt, we can safely assume 660 is a dead stick

RIP GTX 660 TI - I caved and replaced with Sapphire RX 580 8 GB Nitro+ ... turned on RadeonDeInit and it booted without a hitch. I couldn't get the 660 Ti to boot at all. 10.13.5 is working great now across 4 displays. Maybe i'll find a home for the 660 in a kids windows gamine machine - what a shame.

 

[henn2nk]

Hello guys.. for a temporary solution i created a simple applescript, which just rotates the screen for a second and back to clean the graphic ram and the glitches are away for some time. Not a real solution, but hej..

tell application "System Preferences"
    reveal anchor "displaysDisplayTab" of pane id "com.apple.preference.displays"
    delay 1
    tell application "System Events"
        tell pop up button "Rotation:" of tab group 1 of window 1 of application process "System Preferences"
            click
            click menu item "180°" of menu 1
            my clickRevertButton()
        end tell
    end tell
end tell

quit application "System Preferences"

on clickRevertButton()
    set wasClicked to false
    repeat until wasClicked
        delay 0.1
        tell application "System Events"
            try
                click button "Revert" of sheet 1 of window 1 of application process "System Preferences"
                set wasClicked to true
            end try
        end tell
    end repeat
end clickRevertButton

Keep in mind, this could be a security issue.

 

[saudor]

Was able to get Mojave B2 installed and booted (it went to a black screen so had to use a iMac 14,1 smbios until nvidiagraphicsfixup is updated). Glitches are still there

It's still better than high Sierra as the artifacts seems to go away when you switch to a different app and back (but not always)

The graphics performance overall is quite stuttery (but there is acceleration as the menus are transparent and launchpad is fairly smooth)

 

[th0th]

Hello guys.. for a temporary solution i created a simple applescript, which just rotates the screen for a second and back to clean the graphic ram and the glitches are away for some time. Not a real solution, but hej..

Does this work all the time? I mean I was using editing some display settings in Preferences but sometimes it wasn't enough to clear glitches.

 

[timta2]

Please be careful about posting about the Mojave Betas. I had my post mentioning it removed and got a warning, telling me to read the rules.

• This site allows discussion of pre-release software (such as OS X Public Beta software builds) from the free Apple Beta Software Program. This site does NOT support pre-release Apple Developer Program Beta software, and does NOT allow the discussion of installation or use of Apple Developer Program Beta software. Repeated violations of this rule will result in a permanent ban. No Apple Developer Program Builds, Apple Beta Software Program builds only.

 

[rgwoehr]

Please be careful about posting about the Mojave Betas. I had my post mentioning it removed and got a warning, telling me to read the rules.

Same thing happened to me, but the public beta is out so it’s safe to talk about it now. No changes here with Mojave, the glitches usually take no more than 10 minutes to appear on mine and make it pretty much unusable. I’m hoping it’ll get fixed before the final release but I’m not very optimistic at this point.

 

[saudor]

Same thing happened to me, but the public beta is out so it’s safe to talk about it now. No changes here with Mojave, the glitches usually take no more than 10 minutes to appear on mine and make it pretty much unusable. I’m hoping it’ll get fixed before the final release but I’m not very optimistic at this point.

It will never get fixed unless someone with a mac pro with this card opens a ticket. It's been ongoing since HS betas and was never fixed there.

While the RX series work good now, who knows, they might start artifacting in 10.17 or something. Apple seems to struggle in the graphics department a lot (iphone4/ipad3/6+ underpowered GPUs, 15 inch macbook dGPU issues, etc)