Web Drivers work but MacOS is EXTREMELY laggy!

[davidcanada67]

Not just a little laggy, it's laggy beyond being even a little usable.

I'm on 10.13.6 and I'm running the 40.105 drivers. About This Mac shows PNY Nvidia GTX 970 4GB and the NVidia tray icon shows Web Drivers. Also my dock is see through.

But that's where all the good news ends everything is EXTREMELY laggy:
1. clicking things in safari doesnt work, I have to right click and select open
2. hovering over the dock takes 3 seconds for the zoom animation to work and only has 1 frame
3. the terminal app wont update the output until I click it or resize it (macOS installer had this problem too which concerns me)
4. A lot of the times I still boot to a black screen with a cursor and have to try again. Other times I have a cursor with the apple logo. One time it booted all the way to my desktop (I have auto login on) and the boot screen fadeout animation never finished so I could see my desktop behind a semi-transparent black apple logo....
5. Clover just freezes when I go to the "mount EFI" tab
6. Dragging windows around is quite laggy
7. Videos don't play on youtube.com (it took a long time to even get safari open and loaded to youtube to test this)

It's honestly hard for me to say if these are GPU problems or somehow other problems with my hackintosh given how weird some of the issues are, but everything just seems SUPER sluggish.

I have also tried unticking "Inject Intel" but it didn't fix the problem. The only thing on the GPU page I have ticked is "use web drivers". and platform-id 0x59120003 (my iGPU is connectorless and I boot with HDMI with the 970). I'm on Skylake though and don't know if I should be using this ID or if I need 0x19120001. Honestly I don't know what this id is for.

My specs are:

Specs:
Alienware X51 R3
Intel Core i7 6700 3.40GHz Skylake
PNY Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 / Intel HD Graphics 530
RAM 8GB
Sound: Realtek ALC898
Realtek RTL8168/8111 gigabit Ethernet Adapter / Intel dual band Wireless AC 7265

BIOS settings:
https://github.com/Macmee/x51r3/blob/master/50023985_1183002448530270_2506874944982351872_n.jpg
https://github.com/Macmee/x51r3/blob/master/50031923_389201901815271_1822434394120388608_n.jpg
https://github.com/Macmee/x51r3/blob/master/50071375_1621750064635454_6064802625805615104_n.jpg
https://github.com/Macmee/x51r3/blob/master/50116063_554462538367168_8409211722623090688_n.jpg
https://github.com/Macmee/x51r3/blob/master/50247539_225020681712864_7158360737419624448_n.jpg
https://github.com/Macmee/x51r3/blob/master/50325144_227021061512614_2354690977941159936_n.jpg
https://github.com/Macmee/x51r3/blob/master/50565902_292917658247017_408955026304663552_n.jpg

and I've attached my EFI and config.

 

[b000000mcat]

It’s weird. My X51 R3 is also EXTREMELY laggy.

i tried either using AMD card in HS and Mojave, Nvidia card in HS, and IGPU in HS and Mojave. Seems like in either combo the gpu had been drived correctly, but the system is always laggy with no luck.

Also, mine is super hard to get into the system or login screen. Most of the time it will get stucked at stage 2 boot with an empty progress bar, an apple logo, and a movable cursor. If I type type my password blindly, I have like 20% chance to get into the system, but still, super laggy. (The annoying thing is, stage 2 does not have a verbose mode, so its hard to figure out what’s happening)

Hope someone can help.

 

[davidcanada67]

It’s weird. My X51 R3 is also EXTREMELY laggy.

i tried either using AMD card in HS and Mojave, Nvidia card in HS, and IGPU in HS and Mojave. Seems like in either combo the gpu had been drived correctly, but the system is always laggy with no luck.

Also, mine is super hard to get into the system or login screen. Most of the time it will get stucked at stage 2 boot with an empty progress bar, an apple logo, and a movable cursor. If I type type my password blindly, I have like 20% chance to get into the system, but still, super laggy. (The annoying thing is, stage 2 does not have a verbose mode, so its hard to figure out what’s happening)

Hope someone can help.

my rx 580 just came. Graphics wise it's behaving better but I still can't figure out the strange system behaviour. The mouse is jerky, it boots 1/4th of the time. Everything is just crazy laggy and the system behaves really wonky. I don't even know how to describe it. It's definitely not GPU related I don't think.

Did you ever find out how to fix it?

 

[b000000mcat]

my rx 580 just came. Graphics wise it's behaving better but I still can't figure out the strange system behaviour. The mouse is jerky, it boots 1/4th of the time. Everything is just crazy laggy and the system behaves really wonky. I don't even know how to describe it. It's definitely not GPU related I don't think.

Did you ever find out how to fix it?

Well, no luck. I guess Alien has modified their hardware somehow so it’s driver or something may not fit OSX’s driver.