Screensaver preferences crashing 2017 15"MBP
So a week or 2 ago I changed my screensaver from 'word of the day' to 'Drift'.
I would get crashes (your mac restarted because of a problem) intermittently when it came out of screensaver/sleep mode.
At first I thought this was to do with a hardware peripheral (wacom cintiq plugged in using a usb+hdmi adaptor), so I left it unplugged to see if the issue resolved. I also updated to catalina 10.15.7. The mac still crashed ad rebooted when moving the mouse while the screensaver was on.
I now know it was the screensaver for certain, as I went to change it back to word of the day, and clicking a new screensaver forced the black screen of death.
Has anybody encountered this issue before? Is there a way to check the health of my video card?
Thanks
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro14,3
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.9 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled
Memory: 16 GB
Boot ROM Version: 428.0.0.0.0
SMC Version (system): 2.45f4
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15