High Sierra screen artifacts

I'm seeing residual screen artifacts on my desktop and also in applicationUser uploaded file windows that were previously active, but which have been hidden or closed. These artifacts are very faint, and I think over a suitable period of time, the initial set of artifacts "fade"... but they're replaced by artifacts from other open then hidden/closed windows.


Also, if I change the desktop to any solid color, I cannot see these artifacts. And they are visible only with certain background images. (I think if the background image being used is very bright or very dark then you cannot see these artifacts.


NOTE - the artifacts are VERY faint - I've attempted to create some screen shots, which as I look at the screen are relatively easy to see, but when I look at the actual screen shots, they are almost impossible to detect.

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), macOS High Sierra (10.13), Display issues - 27" iMac mid 2012

Posted on Sep 29, 2017 10:06 PM

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Posted on Jan 25, 2018 7:18 AM

> First I tried to install High Sierra again, I thought it might have bugged on the last install. Nope.
> Then I backed up everything manually to an external hard drive and installed High Sierra from the scratch like I would be selling my mac, meaning I would have to install all my apps, fonts, and so on again. Did not help.

> After that I googled a lot how to do "downgrade" to the older version which Apple seems to made hard if you don't have experience with terminal or don't know about formatting but when I Followed multiple tutorials I managed to it quite easily but took a long time.


I did this last night and I can't promise I remember all the steps right way but shortly this is what I did I downloaded old os, made a USB stick installer and wiped everything in my computer. Found some good instructions here:https://www.macworld.com/article/2981585/operating-systems/how-to-make-a-bootabl e-os-x-10-11-el-capitan-installer-drive.…


1. Backup everything

2. Double check you backed up

3. Download the el capitan from App Store

4. Format, rename and partition 8-16gb USB stick the proper way (link up there tells everything^)
5. Move the installer to the formatted stick
6. Restart the computer with special command, erase everything from the hard drive (the link I posted did not mention this part so when I Rebooted with command + r and used disk utility to erase my hard drive (it will pop up macOS recovery with this command: About macOS Recovery - Apple Support)

7. Rebooted again with command + option to Install El capitan from the stick (the stick wont show with command +r )

8. Hope, pray and sacrifice your soul then wait that the installation goes all the way to the end and for me this took ages, it looked really worrying once in a while with looong stops only white screen showing or text saying " about a second left" meaning 20-30 minutes but IT WORKED.


No screen problems, ghosting or "burns", no lagging, no pinwheel of death at the moment.

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Jan 25, 2018 4:25 AM in response to LuxViz

Hi, I have the exact same issue.


I'm on iMac 27 late 2013 with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4 GB (iMac 14,2). I'm using the MacOs High Sierra 10.13.2 (17C205).


Note that a lot of people (including me) have huge problems since the High Sierra update with Nvidia graphic cards and Cuda drivers. You can read a lot of bad experiences here : https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1025945/cuda-setup-and-installation/mac -cuda-9-0-driver-fully-compatible-with-m…


I don't know if the screen artifacts are related to this but it is a nightmare. Are they using the same technique like the did with iPhones to "invite" us to buy new computers ?

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