pastrychef's Asus ROG Strix Z370-G Gaming (WI-FI AC) build w/ i9-9900K + AMD 6600 XT

[pastrychef]

Although I read almost everything I can't find anything about an USB lag issue. Since a while I noticed lag every few second it interrupts for half a second and then it continues butter smooth. I disabled all programs loading at start, tried removal of SSDT-USB.aml / rolled back older version USBInjectAll but it doesn't make a difference. I found this already and it seems more people having same issue. https://www.******.com/r/hackintosh/comments/88lsj5/macos_10134_upgrade_mouse_laggingstuttering/
Did I miss it in this thread and is there someone who have possibly a fix for it?

I have never experienced this. I use my Magic Mouse 2 pretty much exclusively and only use my Magic Trackpad 1 when the mouse is charging or when I need to Trackpad Handwriting.

Besides you, there was one other user who reported the same issue to me, but, again, I was never able to reproduce the problem and he eventually swapped out his video card and the problem went away. I don't remember which video cards he used.

 

[dclive]

Have you considered the card instillation chef does in post #40 ?

Yes, that's the exact card I'm using. Apologies to misreading it - I'd interpreted (4.0) in paren as the part to mean BT2.1, but I should have taken the 0x6 part. --- too late last night to be working on the Hackintosh!

 

[hannibal1969]

I have never experienced this. I use my Magic Mouse 2 pretty much exclusively and only use my Magic Trackpad 1 when the mouse is charging or when I need to Trackpad Handwriting.

Besides you, there was one other user who reported the same issue to me, but, again, I was never able to reproduce the problem and he eventually swapped out his video card and the problem went away. I don't remember which video cards he used.

I found a possible solution. I removed XHCI-200-series-injector.kext and the SSDT-USB.aml in clover. I enabled the 837D8C10 / 837D8C1B replace patch in clover. The lags are gone however now I keep black screen from wake. To be honest I have a slightly different mainboard (Asus Z370 Prime-A) but it worked in 10.13.3 smooth and I think it started to be an issue in 10.13.4 (not sure for 100%) but in 10.13.5 its an issue.

 

[pastrychef]

I found a possible solution. I removed XHCI-200-series-injector.kext and the SSDT-USB.aml in clover. I enabled the 837D8C10 / 837D8C1B replace patch in clover. The lags are gone however now I keep black screen from wake. To be honest I have a slightly different mainboard (Asus Z370 Prime-A) but it worked in 10.13.3 smooth and I think it started to be an issue in 10.13.4 (not sure for 100%) but in 10.13.5 its an issue.

Hmm... I didn't expect SSDT-USB.aml and XHCI-200-series-injector.kext to be the issue and I don't see how USB can cause black screen on wake... Very strange...

We know that there were changes in USB with macOS 10.13.4. That's why there were new port limit patches needed and USBInjectAll.kext was updated. However, those who used SSDT for USB didn't have problems with this update. So, the only thing I can suggest is to double check that your SSDT-USB.aml is correct and update to the latest USBInjectAll.kext.

The black screen after wake is very strange. I don't see the relation between USB and video... I know that without SSDT-USB.aml, sleep/wake can be hit-or-miss but I don't think I've ever read that it causes black screen on wake.

RehabMan can probably help diagnose what the problem is. I suggest you start a thread in the High Sierra Desktop Support sub-forum and ask for his assistance. Be sure to generate problem reporting files using the tool found here when posting. He won't answer questions without those files.

 

[dclive]

OS: 10.13.5
Asus Z370-I i7-8700 -> Asus Z370-G i7-8700k
HP EX720 1TB NVME -> Samsung 860 EVO 500GB, SATA
AMD Radeon RX580 -> Asus 1080 8GB

1672.8 MB/s write -> 472 MB/s write
2891.7 MB/s read -> 505.4 MB/s read

LuxMark 3.1 gives 15478, with a Radeon RX580, 36 @ 1366 mhz -> 15443 with the 1080.

Heaven is a decade old, so I focused on Valley, running the same specs as the prior post, 1920x1080, 8xAA, Ultra:
FPS 47.4 -> 90.8
Score: 1985 -> 3797
Min FPS: 28.2 -> 42
Max FPS: 83.4 -> 177.6

System: Darwin 17.6.0 X86_64
CPU Model: I7-8700 @ 3.2 -> 3.7
GPU Model: RX580 (256MB) X1 -> 1080

 

[pastrychef]

OS: 10.13.5
Asus Z370-I i7-8700 -> Asus Z370-G i7-8700k
HP EX720 1TB NVME -> Samsung 860 EVO 500GB, SATA
AMD Radeon RX580 -> Asus 1080 8GB

1672.8 MB/s write -> 472 MB/s write
2891.7 MB/s read -> 505.4 MB/s read

LuxMark 3.1 gives 15478, with a Radeon RX580, 36 @ 1366 mhz -> 15443 with the 1080.

Heaven is a decade old, so I focused on Valley, running the same specs as the prior post, 1920x1080, 8xAA, Ultra:
FPS 47.4 -> 90.8
Score: 1985 -> 3797
Min FPS: 28.2 -> 42
Max FPS: 83.4 -> 177.6

System: Darwin 17.6.0 X86_64
CPU Model: I7-8700 @ 3.2 -> 3.7
GPU Model: RX580 (256MB) X1 -> 1080

With Apple shifting focus away from OpenGL to Metal, I feel that GFXBench Metal is most relevant now.

Edit:
Guide to delete and clear up disk space after running GFXBench.

 

[hannibal1969]

Hmm... I didn't expect SSDT-USB.aml and XHCI-200-series-injector.kext to be the issue and I don't see how USB can cause black screen on wake... Very strange...

We know that there were changes in USB with macOS 10.13.4. That's why there were new port limit patches needed and USBInjectAll.kext was updated. However, those who used SSDT for USB didn't have problems with this update. So, the only thing I can suggest is to double check that your SSDT-USB.aml is correct and update to the latest USBInjectAll.kext.

The black screen after wake is very strange. I don't see the relation between USB and video... I know that without SSDT-USB.aml, sleep/wake can be hit-or-miss but I don't think I've ever read that it causes black screen on wake.

RehabMan can probably help diagnose what the problem is. I suggest you start a thread in the High Sierra Desktop Support sub-forum and ask for his assistance. Be sure to generate problem reporting files using the tool found here when posting. He won't answer questions without those files.

I'm not sure, I had a hit miss ratio of about 85% before with a successful wake. I had one failure out of the wake but the second was working. Don't know if its workable for me. Thanks for the tip with sending the stuff to rehabmnan but for now I'm happy the lags are gone. (first Nvidia and now USB ;-))

 

[dclive]

Any worries on the "new" Z370-G BIOS 0805?

 

[pastrychef]

Any worries on the "new" Z370-G BIOS 0805?

I haven't updated yet. But I've gone through every other BIOS update and never had any issues.

 

[pastrychef]

Any worries on the "new" Z370-G BIOS 0805?

I just updated. All seems fine.