WindowServer crashing repeatedly since upgrade to Ventura

Just chipping in that I, too, am seeing this. Only with Command + Tab, and for me, it only started recently, like a couple of days ago. I am using 13.0.1; using MBP monitor along with external monitor connected via HDMI.

I have a 2018 15 inch with 2.2 i7 16 GB of ram and 1TB HD.

I started having htis issue about 3 weeks ago. Two OSs ago. It seemed to occur after updating my monitors to UHD samsungs. I went from running two external monitors at home and work via USBC HDMI cables to a single external UHD via USB C to HDMI. Always with the lid closed.

Apple wanted me to update to Ventura. I did. It helped. For about 3 days.

I seem to get the crash when the computer sleeps over night and when I am doing "stuff too fast."

I went back to the old set up with two 1080p monitors today. Same issue.

Today was me hitting spacebar to preview a document and then changing my mind and then changing my mind again - quickly.

Full screen isn't used frequently, if ever.

I am beyond frustrated. I am glad I found this forum as I was about to run out and buy a new machine thinking something hardware wise was failing. Seems a new machine will likely have the same issues. If I have to use the machine as a laptop without a monitor it is worthless.

I am at a loss at this point.

Just switched to that Separate Spaces off config, with hope in mind. Problem for me is, I do calibrate the monitors separately for my photo and video work. That side, I always use one monitor for the color work, so having the other one with the same color space is not so bad. Thanks for the suggestion!

Is there a way to get some media attention on this. It always seems the apple is quick to move to fix issues that are cast poorly in the media.

In this day and age, not being able to run multiple monitors on a machine that is built for productivity that comes with such a hefty price tag is shocking.

Just submitted feedback to Apple about this with a link to this topic.

When I spoke to Apple Support about this a while back, the response I got back was "You have to contact Microsoft, we don't support Windows Server".

Urgh, How annoying is it having to try to explain their own software to them!

Exactly same issue - I am using a trackpad and it is connected directly via lightning and Bluetooth when this happens. I have two setups for my MacBook Pro M1 Pro with Ventura. One at home with a LG 4K and another in the office with a BENQ 4K - both create the WindowServer Crash.

Ditto here. MacBook Air 2020 (Intel) with OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock with HDMI attached monitor. Very frustrating!

I thought about the option of making my MacBook the primary monitor, but that defeats the purpose of connecting my external monitor and expecting everything to switch over to it, so now I'm trying running on the external display with my MacBook closed (also not a very good option, but better than crashing!).

I'm running a 2018 i7 MBP and was experiencing what you're all describing back on Monterey. I was hopeful Ventura (and the recent updates) would clean a bunch of stuff up and the prob would go away, but it hasn't. The crashes really do seem random. Just for clarity, I rarely run apps full screen and sometimes use command-tab to app switch. Neither of those things mentioned in this thread has ever caused a crash here.

I run an ultra-wide external monitor via display port. If I use clamshell mode, it's a crash every time. If I don't, I can sometimes use apps for hours. If I use the MBP without the external monitor, I can sometimes go hours without crashes or, like today, simply opening Photoshop was locking the machine up over and over (Photoshop almost never locks it up) but I was also at a different location (different wifi) than I usually use. I was suspect of the GPU starting to go bad, but PS's compatibility check says mine is OK.

I typically use Brave or Chrome browsers and suspected them for awhile.

I can usually run TONS of memory-intensive graphics/3D/music/video apps at once without crashes. Then something as simple as opening a browser tab may crash the machine.

I used to never manually shut my machine down when finishing with it. I'd just close it to sleep. Now, I manually shut it down every day. It seems to have helped somewhat, though it does a daily crash when booting up. The fans let out a big "breath" and it crashes to a black screen. Starts right up after.

I've browsed hundreds of thread posts from folks who have the same issues and lots of various solutions that I've tried. It's clearly some bug that's made its way from Monterey (or even before) now into Ventura that's causing seeming random crashes having to do with drawing items to the screen. The only real way to know may be to wipe the machine and start it fresh on Big Sur or something. But we all know how much we love doing that.

I have Ventura 13.1 with Razer Core X (eGPU) with AMD RX6600XT and a Samsung Odyssey G9.

Crashes when the Macbook is idle and turn screen off. When I come back the screen don't come up or the OSX has restarted and when I login there is a crash report from WindoServer process.

The problem started not when I used the eGPU, but when I installed this new monitor (G9)

The previous monitor was an Asus ROG PG348Q 3440x1440 and worked pretty well until I decided to install a KVM switch to use the monitor with my PC.

Because of issues to use the KVM switch with Mac and PC I decided to upgrade to this Samsung that comes with two DisplayPorts. Now Mac and PC works with this monitor. But the crashes started to happen :-(

Two hard crashes in the span of about an hour. This sucks really bad. I've been working in MacOS for over a decade now and I've never seen it be as unreliable as this. If I wanted crashes and hard reboots, I would have bought a Windows machine for half the price.

I had the same crashes, but currently it seems to run stable again.

For me, I think the trick was to switch off AMD FreeSync in the settings of my screens.

I also noted, that with other screens I didn't have such problems.

So my guess is some screens might have features leading to the crashes we observed.

I am using 16-inch, 2019 Macbook Pro, and have the same issue. Graphics: AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 4 GB

Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB, processor: 2.4 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9.

WHAT HAPPENS

My macbook randomly freezes when I close/open the lid with external monitors connected.

This happened since I was forced to update the system to Ventura 13.1; and it has not been fixed after updating to the latest 13.2.

Panic logs recorded very frequently. Crash report it is related to WindowServer.

DEBUGGING I HAVE DONE

(1) I have two monitors, one uses DisplayPort-TypeC, one uses TypeC-TypeC. Both have the same issue.

(To reproduce it problem, you may need to connect two monitors to the same mac, and then randomly disconnect one monitor. Once you see the crash for one time, you will see it happens again when connecting to just one monitor.)

(2) My personal macbook with older system 10.15.1, does not reproduce this issue.

(3) SMC and NVRAM reset does not resolve the issue. Hard drive repair does not resolve the issue.

(4) I tested a new macbook with 13.2 system, it can reproduce this issue.

The random crashes impact the work efficiency quite a bit.