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User profile for user: Charles Hess
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2013 iMac NVIDIADriver

I have a late 2013

27" iMac. 32 GB RAM.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M video card, 4GB VRAM.

I recently had the drive wiped and they did a fresh reinstall of Mojave.

All data was then migrated from my backup.

I now do not have the option of choosing the NVIDIA web driver over

the Mac OS driver. It's greyed out in the control panel.


Some applications I use in video work are misbehaving a bit.


Could this be related?

NVIDIA has dropped support and drivers appear to be no longer available.

I did find a site with what appears to be the last available, but for High Sierra.


Solutions?

iMac 27″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Sep 4, 2021 4:47 PM

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User profile for user: padams35
padams35
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Posted on Sep 5, 2021 10:31 AM

The Apple/Nvidea spat has worsened to the point where the two can no longer agree on terms for a driver update. Starting with Mojave Nvidea web drivers are unavailable.


Downloading the High Sierra web drivers is pointless: there is no harm, but the drivers won't work either.

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User profile for user: Charles Hess
Charles Hess Author
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Sep 5, 2021 8:45 AM in response to rkaufmann87

For a number of applications I use, I need to stick with Mojave at present.

So is there basically no difference between the NVIDIA web driver

and the one supplied by Mac OS? As mentioned, I no longer have the option

of choosing since the drive was wiped and I upgraded to Mojave from High Sierra.

Any idea why?


Lastly, would any harm be done by downloading the High Sierra NVIDIA driver found here?

https://www.tonymacx86.com/nvidia-drivers/

I am interested to see if the option of driver choice would reappear.


Thanks.


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2013 iMac NVIDIADriver

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