pastrychef's build - Asus Maximus VIII Gene - i7-7700K - GTX 1080

[esetnik]

@xelanaiznac @pastrychef unfortunately Quick Sync stopped working when I upgraded to 10.13.2.

❯ /Applications/VDADecoderChecker
GVA info: Successfully connected to the Intel plugin, offline Gen95
AVDCreateGPUAccelerator: Error loading GPU renderer
VDADecoderCreate failed. err: -12473
An error was returned by the decoder layer. This may happen for example because of bitstream/data errors during a decode operation. This error may also be returned from VDADecoderCreate when hardware decoder resources are available on the system but currently in use by another process.
VDADecoderCreate failed. err: -12473

 

[pastrychef]

I have this problem unsolved for so much time. The update rarely works, I tried everything!
Now, for me, the solution seems to remove the file EmuVariableUefi-64.efi before upgrade. Than reboot, upgrade and replace the file EmuVariableUefi-64.efi.

I don't know what is this file. Is it for nvram ?

the best thing is to have a usb stick with clover without this file and use the stick only to update osx.

Did you try downloading and using the full macOS High Sierra installer to update?

 

[esetnik]

@xelanaiznac @pastrychef are you also experiencing worse the expected GPU performance after upgrading to 10.13 from 10.12? I'm definitely affected by this issue https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/gtx-1060-performance-on-10-13-high-sierra.236962/ and I'm looking for anyone else who also has it.

 

[pastrychef]

@xelanaiznac @pastrychef are you also experiencing worse the expected GPU performance after upgrading to 10.13 from 10.12? I'm definitely affected by this issue https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/gtx-1060-performance-on-10-13-high-sierra.236962/ and I'm looking for anyone else who also has it.

Hi. I haven't had much time to test it. I received my Coffee Lake CPU and motherboard today and have been messing with that... I'll try to check a little later.

 

[rob3r7o]

Did you try downloading and using the full macOS High Sierra installer to update?

No, I have not tried the full High sierra installer. Just for last two upgrade

 

[pastrychef]

The full installer updated me from 10.13.1 to 10.13.2 fine. All my apps, settings, etc remained intact.

 

[xelanaiznac]

@xelanaiznac @pastrychef are you also experiencing worse the expected GPU performance after upgrading to 10.13 from 10.12? I'm definitely affected by this issue https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/gtx-1060-performance-on-10-13-high-sierra.236962/ and I'm looking for anyone else who also has it.

bad performance using which benhmark for test?

 

[xelanaiznac]

@xelanaiznac @pastrychef unfortunately Quick Sync stopped working when I upgraded to 10.13.2.

❯ /Applications/VDADecoderChecker
GVA info: Successfully connected to the Intel plugin, offline Gen95
AVDCreateGPUAccelerator: Error loading GPU renderer
VDADecoderCreate failed. err: -12473
An error was returned by the decoder layer. This may happen for example because of bitstream/data errors during a decode operation. This error may also be returned from VDADecoderCreate when hardware decoder resources are available on the system but currently in use by another process.
VDADecoderCreate failed. err: -12473

for me it's working

 

[esetnik]

@xelanaiznac weird. Looks like you also upgraded to coffee lake. Congrats. How is it?

 

[pastrychef]

xelanaiznac, can you post your copy of VDADecoderChecker? Mine is showing errors but I'm not sure if it's my copy of the checker. Thanks in advance.