macOS Sierra & NVIDIA GPU

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macOS Sierra & NVIDIA GPU

Hello,

I have a MacBook Pro Retina 15'' (late 2013) with the NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M.

I just updated to the latest macOS Sierra 10.12.2. The NVIDIA CUDA driver in the System Preferences pane shows the following (as you can see the driver shows "No newer CUDA Driver available") but it shows in red as Update Required.

Every time my Mac restarts, this CUDA System preference pane shows up.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Nick

MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS Sierra (10.12)

Posted on Dec 14, 2016 5:01 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 29, 2017 9:49 AM in response to Nicolas Online

I was able to get rid of the annoying NVIDIA driver pop-up on my Mac Mini (2010) running OSX 10.12.6 by downgrading to the NVIDIA CUDA Driver Version: 7.5.30. It's available here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cuda-7.5.30-driver.html

CUDA Preferences in System Preferences says no newer driver is available and also shows "GPU Driver Version: 10.2.37 310.90.10.05b54"

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Answer 2

Dec 14, 2016 5:23 PM in response to Nicolas Online

Hey Nick,

So from what I could find it looks like there is currently no driver for Sierra that is compatible with this video card.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cuda-7.5.30-driver.html

The last supported version was 10.11.6

Is this a 3rd party video card or did it come preinstalled with your system?

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Answer 3

Dec 14, 2016 10:03 PM in response to pcalcagnijerjer

Hello,

I'm having the same problem. The driver that NVidia makes IS in fact compatible with Sierra 10.12.1, but in updated to 10.12.2 something went wrong.

It seems to me that Apple tried to fix the 2016 graphics problems and somehow messed up older graphics cards in this update.

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Answer 4

Dec 14, 2016 7:01 PM in response to Bobby Miller

Hi There Bobby-

According to NVIDIA'S website

It looks like support MacOS stopped with 10.11. Id refer you back to Nvidia to see if/when they are going to be releasing a driver update for the hardware.

Good luck =)

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Answer 5

Dec 14, 2016 7:04 PM in response to pcalcagnijerjer

currently only supported in the developer preview*** for 10.12, just an FYI

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Answer 6

Dec 14, 2016 11:01 PM in response to pcalcagnijerjer

This is incorrect.

As you can see in the following link: http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cuda-8.0.53-driver.html

Supported Mac OS is 10.12.x is included.

The latest driver is indeed number 8.0.53 as per the link above for my NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M

So my problem still stands.

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Answer 7

Dec 14, 2016 11:04 PM in response to Bobby Miller

I suspect the same thing. Let's keep each other posted of any new developments?

Is there a way to uninstall and reinstall the driver that could make this work?

Or is there a way to check that the driver and GPU actually work perfectly fine by downloading a test tool? (i.e. the update notification may just be a bug?)

Thanks

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Answer 8

Dec 15, 2016 8:15 AM in response to Nicolas Online

Just as an update I tried uninstalling and installing and it doesn't seem to have made a difference. But there is no direct way to uninstall, it's a manual uninstall so maybe i missed something.

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Answer 9

SoldOnMac

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Dec 15, 2016 9:20 AM in response to Nicolas Online

Just to add my $0.02, this IS indeed a PROBLEM. This isn't people with old hardware that haven't had unsupported graphics cards for years, and suddenly are running into problems. This is people who have kept their systems updated with every new (public) release, and NOW have run into a problem (as described above).

So thank you for taking the time to find somewhere that says our graphics cards are no longer supported, but that just isn't true. Sorry, and thank you for anyone who can figure out why this is happening (other than nVidia being lazy).

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Answer 10

Dec 15, 2016 9:21 AM in response to SoldOnMac

United front. I'll try and work on this from different angles and report back. Thanks for your input.

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Answer 11

Dec 15, 2016 10:39 AM in response to Nicolas Online

Besides this warning saying that it's out of date, are you guys experiencing any weird graphics issues? I posted about it here: 10.12.2 = Graphics Glitches on 2014 MacBook Pro?

I'm wondering if the best bet it to just downgrade to El Capitan somehow.

Also, I understand people wanting to help here. But, when your card works fine in 10.12.1 and then glitches out and says its driver is out of date in 10.12.2, then something isn't right...And it's not because our machines are too old.

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Answer 12

Dec 15, 2016 6:09 PM in response to Bobby Miller

Bobby. So far no glitches. What I did do was remove the NVIDIA CUDA preferences pane from System Preferences. Because it was too annoying to have it pop up every time my mac restarted.

What you can do as an informal test is download the CUDA-Z diagnostic app. And as you run GPU intensive apps, you can see the variation. And see if it's functioning properly (-ish).

I so far have had no luck

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Answer 13

Dec 15, 2016 6:42 PM in response to Nicolas Online

Think I'm going to downgrade to El Capitan. If I can figure that out.

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Answer 14

Dec 15, 2016 9:04 PM in response to Bobby Miller

Downgrading to El Capitan is very possible. So far no graphics glitches and CUDA works fine.

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Answer 15

Dec 16, 2016 1:45 AM in response to Nicolas Online

In my opinion, the outdated cuda driver is no problem, it still is under perfect working condition (on my mp 5.1 / 980ti).

google for CUDA-z, you should find it at sourceforge.net, this shows that cuda still is working.

Greetings from germany

Chris

ps.: yes, i too am waiting for a up-to-date version

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