GTX 660 glitch issue with MacOS High Sierra 10.13

[menelkir]

Anyone tried this?
https://github.com/acidanthera/WhateverGreen

 

[saudor]

Anyone tried this?
https://github.com/acidanthera/WhateverGreen

WEG recently rolled together all the different graphicsfixup kexts into a single kexts. That being said, someone posted that they were getting the black screen bug on a 660.

I can no longer easily test this card since i have replaced my 660 with a HD 5770 that was lying around.

 

[menelkir]

WEG recently rolled together all the different graphicsfixup kexts into a single kexts. That being said, someone posted that they were getting the black screen bug on a 660.

I can no longer easily test this card since i have replaced my 660 with a HD 5770 that was lying around.

It's because the project seems quite active and because of this:

• Fixes NVIDIA GPU interface stuttering on 10.13 (official and web drivers)

 

[LeBaldi]

I tested here with all clock fixed and nothing... fixed voltage and clock and still glitch... but not permanent as i comment previewsly

 

[rgwoehr]

I just tested WhateverGreen with Mojave public beta 2. The artifacts seemed to start showing much faster, but seemed slightly less intrusive for some things. Previously when the artifacts would appear, the menubar text and drop down menus would be unreadable, but so far that hasn't been the case with WhateverGreen. The artifacts aren't staying on the menubar permanently, but they do seem to be permanent on the drop down menus. I can watch a fullscreen youtube video in Safari without artifacts (although they do show up while the video is switching to fullscreen). I only tested for maybe 15 minutes so it's possible that it could get worse. For me, any amount of artifacts is unacceptable so I wasn't interested in testing any further.

 

[menelkir]

I just tested WhateverGreen with Mojave public beta 2. The artifacts seemed to start showing much faster, but seemed slightly less intrusive for some things. Previously when the artifacts would appear, the menubar text and drop down menus would be unreadable, but so far that hasn't been the case with WhateverGreen. The artifacts aren't staying on the menubar permanently, but they do seem to be permanent on the drop down menus. I can watch a fullscreen youtube video in Safari without artifacts (although they do show up while the video is switching to fullscreen). I only tested for maybe 15 minutes so it's possible that it could get worse. For me, any amount of artifacts is unacceptable so I wasn't interested in testing any further.

I've setup an High Sierra installation to test it. It seems the glitches are far less than usual for me. It happens slightly less, and it's exactly the same situation you described. Just for the record, here's the setup I've tested so far:

MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6, CUDA Driver 396.148, Nvidia Drivers 387.10.10.10.40.105, WhateverGreen 1.2.0.

Update: I was testing some stuff here. If you keep a game fullscreen, the glitches doesn't appears anymore, but is just a matter of changing to window mode and the window will be entirely glitched. I've close the window and there's no glitches anywhere else. In other hand, if I open youtube in Safari, changes to fullscreen to window again, is a matter of minutes to glitching and transmit to menus and other windows.

 

[user1085]

WEG recently rolled together all the different graphicsfixup kexts into a single kexts. That being said, someone posted that they were getting the black screen bug on a 660.

I can no longer easily test this card since i have replaced my 660 with a HD 5770 that was lying around.

Are the drivers for 5770 included in the OS or do you need to download from the AMD site?

 

[malenki22]

I recently installed High Sierra but experienced the same problem what other had, tried few different things but still had glitches ect., shame as I was looking forward to trying out mac on spare pc.

 

[menelkir]

I had the same configurations I've posted in #513. It seems the glitches are really minor right now, not sure what to trigger them to test it anymore. I've tried even rendering somethin in Final Cut Pro and they're gone, not sure if forever or what.
I did some benchmarks using OpenGL Extensions Viewer, usually was sufficient to trigger the glitches but it doesn't trigger anymore. Tell me some tests I can do to trigger so I can be sure.

Also, in #513 I said about youtube and gaming? Uh.. it stopped happening. Tell me something to do so I can try it, not sure what I did, I can upload my EFI folder somewhere for further knowledge.

 

[th0th]

I had the same configurations I've posted in #513. It seems the glitches are really minor right now, not sure what to trigger them to test it anymore. I've tried even rendering somethin in Final Cut Pro and they're gone, not sure if forever or what.
I did some benchmarks using OpenGL Extensions Viewer, usually was sufficient to trigger the glitches but it doesn't trigger anymore. Tell me some tests I can do to trigger so I can be sure.

Also, in #513 I said about youtube and gaming? Uh.. it stopped happening. Tell me something to do so I can try it, not sure what I did, I can upload my EFI folder somewhere for further knowledge.

Wow, that's great to hear. For how long have you been glitch-free?

Please keep us updated, I am still stuck with Sierra here