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

[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.

 

[DsurioN]

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.

After the latest macOS update, I had to use AppleALC to get audio going:

https://github.com/vit9696/AppleALC/releases

Just drop the release .kext into your EFI/Cover/kexts/Other directory and you *should* be good to go after a reboot. I use an Nvidia card by the way, your mileage may vary with motherboard or AMD audio.

 

[mcloudallan]

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.

I can confirm that still unusable. I was hoping that this NvidiaGraphicsFixUp would solve the issue, but it not seems to be related to the fix itself. Seems related to the driver,

Even in Mac forums there's still a huge problems with, mainly, illustrator and photoshop, but, for me, it seems that everyone is getting the same errors at random times. What you described as white triangles and such is exactly what I'm going through, but with illustrator. After Effects and Photoshop seems fine.

Seems that in some point of use, the video simply breaks and, as it seems pretty random, I don't know how to test it.

If someone knows a way to test whats happening, please, tell me and I'll run the tests to figure out whats happening with the video usage when using apps that require more GPU. Yes, I know that its probably not related to the NvidiaGraphicsFixUp, but with the drivers itself, however, any clue, at least for me, will give me some insight to create even a quick fix to become usable again

Thank you, guys

 

[MrRodoSmith]

I don't think it's necessary for you to start over. I know that at some time during Sierra or the transition to High Sierra I decided to reformat one SSD and try to make a clean test install to see if I could get everything right. At no time did I want that to become my working partition because I did not want to have to reinstall all my software and settings, and the end result of Apple's migration app is questionable, as I found in moving to El Capitan. In fact, I upgraded my Yosemite disk to Sierra.

I spent countless thousands over many years on Apple computing, pre-iPhone, pre-iPad, and I felt since the introduction of the iPhone that Apple was pulling away from the Pro market to the extent that it became near abandonment. They now seem to be making up ground, both with Pros and Education. But if they think that souped-up iPads can take the place of real computing, then they're delusional.

pastrychef wrote a detailed review of your files #321 and I believe you should follow his lead for he has helped many people. Try his suggestions, particularly regarding adjustments to your Clover plist. If you are not familiar with the use of Clover Configurator, then get used to it through practice. If you are hesitant to move forward because you may lose your working system, remember that a quality clone of your main drive using SuperDuper! will be bootable internally or externally. Trust me, that app makes a perfect clone of your drive and it's as bootable as your original.

At some point I realized that if I was going to continue on the path of hackintosh, which I think furthers the cause of Apple and takes the macOS to the edge of its powers, I had to learn a whole lot more about what I was doing. That's why I read threads like this one and follow the developments. If I reply to a post, I think I might be able to help, but I hope to be corrected by pastrychef or many others if needed.

I learned a lot by a practice clean install. You can try that, but not an install you hang your hat on. If you do result with a beautiful clean install that fits your build, then take that resulting EFI folder and transfer it to the clone of your working partition, removing your old EFI folder, and see what happens. By starting with basics, I cut a lot of the accumulated junk in my install. When I get off my MBP and get over to my work computer, I'll post Geekbench scores and comparisons that show what a non-Pro card like the 1080 Ti can do. I doubt you need a different graphics card for now. Post-R9 280X was not a good period for AMD, especially for hackintoshes, and now the pendulum is swinging some the other way. Pascal is strong.

Much appreciated IronWood. I truly do appreciate the feedback and guidance that you and everyone has provided. It's been more than helpful. I just have to stop being afraid of things and just pull the trigger. I'm reviewing the links that PastryChef sent and am positive ad hopeful that I'll be able to get things working as they should (And have a kick butt system)

I'll look at making a clone and getting this system working. [Failure is not an option].
Thanks again and have a great day.
=)

 

[mcloudallan]

So I made a fresh install from the ground. Just deleted everything in my SSD and started over ( Unibeast 8.3 works better than ever !!! )

I'm attaching my config.plist here so I don't have to explain too much

Seems that the problem was on a config into my config.plist. But I don't know for sure, since I did a fresh install

Tested illustrator for over an hour, no choppy or laggy video with NvidiaGraphicsFixup + Lilu and I'm attaching a picture of a heavy "dirty" work of 1000 elements in illustrator, of course, it became a little slower, but this I can't blame on the software

Kexts installed:

NvidiaGraphicsFixUp.kext
Lilu.kext
IntelGraphicsFixUp.kext
Shiki.kext ( also set -shiki=12 into boot options )
CodecCommander.kext

Clover Bootloader important things

SMBios iMac18,2 ( i5 7500 config )
Inject ATI
selected ig-platform-id


Of course I will test it more heavily, but for now I leave this for anyone who could use the help

 

[MrRodoSmith]

*DeepBreath*

Wish me luck. About to make the necessary changes as advised by PastryChef
An if necessary, will implement changes suggested by Ironwood.

Also, the HDMI-DVI cable that I found and started using makes a big difference (using LG 32" 1080p as monitor)

I'll keep you posted.