macOS High Sierra 10.13 slow graphics after battery sleep

Extracted the new Beta 4 Files. Found a GPU Rom file and new GPU drivers. Now we have to check again, hope the issue is fixed 🙂

Well that's certainly good news. Can't wait for the release of the update now. Maybe I will give High Sierra another try then, too. Thanks for testing and sharing your experience!

Unfortunately this is not the case for me. I am still having the same issue with this latest beta, in fact it seems worse than how it was with Beta 3

Works for me too so far, although it's only been a few hours since I applied the update.

Aloha as of January 27th 20:44 Hawaii time the issue has not surfaced what so ever have launched WOW numerous times without any slowdowns in FPS

I'm also experiencing this issue.

It was never an issue in Sierra 10.12.6, but ever since upgrading to High Sierra (10.13.0 and 10.13.1) this issue is present. I have to reboot my computer every time it's been to sleep, otherwise the graphical performance is reduced by about 70%. I have a MacBook Pro 2017 with an i7 2.9GHz, 512GB SSD and Radeon Pro 560M.

This issue is also widely documented on macrumors and on multiple gaming forums (Blizzard, WoW, Diablo, etc).
It needs to be fixed asap as this also severly affects rendering times in Final Cut Pro X byt A LOT.

Didn't have any success with different hibernate modes either. The problem is not random or dependent on GPU usage for me either.

Every time my Macbook goes to sleep for several hours GPU performance is bad until I reboot the machine.

I can boot the machine completely fresh, start no program at all and shut the lid directly after logging in -> several hours later: bad GPU performance.

The performance is also always on the same "bad" level, meaning benchmarks during this low performance state are always consistent. Seems like the GPU driver is not coming back from sleep to high performance mode again.

I can also confirm that the bug still exists in 10.13.2 on my machine.

I did some quick digging in the system report immediately after updating to 10.13.2 and found some updated kernel extensions:

to give some clarity, I arranged the extensions with the most recently modified at the top--today at 2:55pm being when I updated to 10.13.2 -- unfortunately as I stated before, the graphics slowdown still exists on my machine (mid-2015 rMBP 15" 2.2GHz Iris Pro Only model)

**To elaborate on my above post, I should mention that I have absolutely no idea if those recently modified (I'm assuming it was today's update to 10.13.2 that brought on the most recent modifications as the time they read as being modified is the time in which I updated to 10.13.2) kernel extensions have anything at all to do with how my Mac handles graphics--and the slowdown I experience after a wake from sleep, or extended period of use without a reboot--I'm just making an educated guess based on timing, and some of the names...To me, "AppleGraphicsDeviceControl" is likely a relevant extension when having a discussion about our shared issue--on this thread, at least.

Despite the bug still being present, the good news is a reboot still fixes the problem.

Do you people see Tim Cook using "Game, Final Cut Pro X video rendering" etc.?

I can bet whatever that Apple management does not have a clue about this.

- by "management" I am referring to the decision makers, not developers,admins or support stuff.

I use all kinds of software and OS'es and I did not notice this if it wasn't for VirtualBox with 3D

If you use 'regular' apps like office, web, viber/imessage, movies, music etc. - oh and emojis you won't notice so ...

To people recommending here to set the hibernatemode to 0 - do you folks read the manual?

(funny, one user said here "-do this" and then 3pages of users "-it isn't working" ...)

pmset --man

#1. hibernatemode supports values of 0, 3, or 25. Whether or not a hibernation image gets written is also dependent on the values of standby and autopoweroff.

#2. to disable hibernation images completely, ensure hibernatemode,standby and autopoweroff are all set to 0.

But, this is not a solution unless you use your macbook as a desktop machine!

Hi #seonguki,

how is it going now? Still no issues?

Are you putting your laptop to sleep with Radeon engaged, for example if you have WOW still running it will be engaged, in this case any version of High Sierra would work.

The machine needs to sleep with Integrated graphics. In this case I find about half the time it wakes up in a slow mood the other half it'll be fast. ...

# Oso Grande - I have not applied the 10.13.2 Supplemental Update, actually I'm still on 10.13.1, my system info looks exactly like yours.

If MacBook: close lid - open lid, voila!

If other: drop your machine into Sleep Mode via Apple menu - voila.

Easy to reproduce but not confirmed by Apple in public at least.

I would prefer Apple to fix a stupid bug that force me to reboot a 3000+$ machine multiple times a day.

I've tried to run WoW after all-night sleep without AC plugged and Auto-Switch on. Game was running on crazy 200+ FPS in closed locations so it seems that issue may be fixed.