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

[zlatio]

I can confirm that the new releases of the kexts work well, with one major exception: chromium/electron/Chrome, which are impossibly slow on my system, forcing me to use `--disable-gpu` for those apps. If anyone has any info (or, even better, a remedy) for this, please share.

Exactly the opposite here - Chrome/Electron apps were painfully sluggish and laggy before latest patches. Now Chrome is the fastest thing on earth Slack isn't fast by nature but the performance improvement is drastic here. I was using all those with `--disable-gpu` before the kext patches. Now everything is on and is running pretty well.

 

[smixreg]

Exactly the opposite here - Chrome/Electron apps were painfully sluggish and laggy before latest patches. Now Chrome is the fastest thing on earth Slack isn't fast by nature but the performance improvement is drastic here. I was using all those with `--disable-gpu` before the kext patches. Now everything is on and is running pretty well.

Interesting. Care to provide some more info about your configuration? smbios system identifier (e.g. iMac 18,3), kext location, other relevant kexts, config.plist, nvidia driver version etc. might help me figure this out. Thanks!

 

[zlatio]

Interesting. Care to provide some more info about your configuration? smbios system identifier (e.g. iMac 18,3), kext location, other relevant kexts, config.plist, nvidia driver version etc. might help me figure this out. Thanks!

Sure I'm using iMac17,1 definition, kexts in L/E (kept those here as I used Multibeast for installation and it seems like it places them in L/E)

ACS6x.kext
ATTOCelerityFC8.kext
ATTOExpressSASHBA2.kext
ATTOExpressSASRAID2.kext
AppleALC.kext
ArcMSR.kext
CUDA.kext
CalDigitHDProDrv.kext
Dropbox.kext
FakePCIID.kext
FakePCIID_XHCIMux.kext
FakeSMC.kext
FakeSMC_ACPISensors.kext
FakeSMC_CPUSensors.kext
FakeSMC_GPUSensors.kext
FakeSMC_LPCSensors.kext
GeForceTeslaWeb.kext
GeForceWeb.kext
GenericUSBXHCI.kext
HighPointIOP.kext
HighPointRR.kext
IntelMausiEthernet.kext
Lilu.kext
NVDAGF100HalWeb.kext
NVDAGK100HalWeb.kext
NVDAGM100HalWeb.kext
NVDAGP100HalWeb.kext
NVDANV50HalTeslaWeb.kext
NVDAResmanTeslaWeb.kext
NVDAResmanWeb.kext
NVDAStartupWeb.kext
NullCPUPowerManagement.kext
NvidiaGraphicsFixup.kext
PromiseSTEX.kext
RazerHid.kext
SoftRAID.kext

Attached is my config.plist, using Nvidia web driver 387.10.10.30.103 along with NvidiaGraphicsFixup 1.2.6 + Lilu 1.2.3. Might worth to mention that I enabled emulated NVRAM with Multibeast and removed all boot params for graphics drivers - followed this guide here:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...-10-13-4-387-10-10-10-30.249039/#post-1718752
I've been experiencing the Chrome slowness for the last year or so, was using it without hardware acceleration. After latest kext patches the problems magically disappeared . Ping me if you need something more. The hardware added to my profile is accurate in case you need it.

 

[mcloudallan]

slightly related question - do you really need CUDA for Photoshop or InDesign?

Does not seems like it is need for static images tooling tough. It's really odd to see it working without CUDA since Nvidia made it clear that it shouldn't work.
Anyway: PS, Ai, Id, Lr and others, seems exactly the same with or without CUDA.

Now, Premiere and After Effects seems to lose a little when using 3D rendering and multi-camera environment. If you don't use video editing nor animation, you're fine with or without CUDA

 

[mcloudallan]

Not true. CUDA is also used if you want to mine Zcash, or bitcoin on your Mac.

Yes, I agree. I was just pointing for the Adobe thing
Of course CUDA is needed for a bunch of other stuff, but for some adobe apps, doesn't seem to affect performance that much

 

[Simulacron]

Turning off chrome's hardware acceleration makes a huge difference. I'm debating whether to stay on this new version or go back to patched 106 via nvidia-update.

Thanks for this post. I was unaware of the nvidia-update script (I'm still pretty much a noob with Hackintoshes).

Anyway, I was getting the "black screen with infinite spinner" after updating to 10.13.4 plus updating to (what I thought were) the best nVidia web drivers. The nvidia-update script fixed everything in just a few minutes. Now I'm running with full acceleration again under 10.13.4. Thanks again!

 

[Derpaderp]

Hi!

Not sure if I have encountered a new bug or not. Probably this is related to this global problem with the new Nvidia drivers.
My system config is in my profile.
I'm using latest NvidiaGraphicsFixup.kext and Lilu.kext. Running 10.13.3

On 378.10.10.10.26.106 - no problems at all.
On latest available drivers 387.10.10.10.25.156 system works and I can even run some games (with a noticeable lag).
But I see strange graphics issues on my system Dock panel (see screenshot), in the finder window, and in the after-right-click menus.

It looks like opacity is not working properly because Dock has a white background instead of opaque. Same problem with menus and header in the finder window.
Am I doing something wrong and it can be fixed or everyone has the same issues?

Thanks!

 

[vulgo]

I see strange graphics issues on my system Dock panel (see screenshot), in the finder window, and in the after-right-click menus.

For some reason the drivers aren't installed properly or loading. Paste this into a terminal

bash <(curl -s https://vulgo.github.io/webdriver) 387.10.10.10.30.103

If they still don't load it is likely your NVRAM isn't working.

 

[vulgo]

Thanks for this post. I was unaware of the nvidia-update script (I'm still pretty much a noob with Hackintoshes).

Anyway, I was getting the "black screen with infinite spinner" after updating to 10.13.4 plus updating to (what I thought were) the best nVidia web drivers. The nvidia-update script fixed everything in just a few minutes. Now I'm running with full acceleration again under 10.13.4. Thanks again!

It hasn't fixed the problem just installed old drivers.

 

[Derpaderp]

For some reason the drivers aren't installed properly or loading. Paste this into a terminal

bash <(curl -s https://vulgo.github.io/webdriver) 387.10.10.10.30.103

If they still don't load it is likely your NVRAM isn't working.

Thank you. I used this script and also updated to 10.13.4.

Everything working fine now.