macOS High Sierra 10.13 slow graphics after battery sleep

Supplemental Update 10.13.2 was released this morning. I don't recall HD Graphics 630 showing on the About This Mac page.

Can anyone confirm if there was a change/update to the GPU driver for the Radeon? (see below; this was after the supplemental update.)

For what it's worth, I haven't experienced the graphics slow down at all in the past two weeks--I'm using a mid-2015 Retina MacBook Pro 15" Iris Pro only (2.2GHz) and have installed all Apple supported updates the day they've come out.

I can't say that this is what's causing the slowdown, but I have made one change to my workflow that lines up with the timeline of stopped slowdowns..

I no longer use Safari -- I've switched to Firefox (57) full time-- and as a result, I've turned off iCloud sync of safari data --

Again, I'm not attempting to point the finger at Safari or iCloud to blame these slow downs..but in my workflow at least, it's the ONLY change I've made; and since making the switch to Firefox (as in NOT using or even opening safari since the switch at all) I haven't experienced the slowdown at all--and HAVE NOT rebooted once since the switch.

I hate to say it, but it's still an issue even with 10.13.3 Beta 3. I can tell right away when the animation for launching Safari is crawling. :-( Come on Apple! Fix it!

Just installed the supplemental 10.13.2 update and I can still reproduce the issue on my MBP 2017 Radeon Pro 460 after a sleep of nearly 60 minutes (with AC adapter connected)

Aloha I’m still having issues sometimes not all I’d say 50/50 in another note I’m getting an anonymous UUID Panic attack while playing WOW had my logic board replaced on the 2nd and last night happened again seems to be an issue Battle.net app I launched WOW not through Battle.net app and have had no Panic attacks also ran a GPU test called Heaven for 29 minuets on Ultra settings and no restarts just putting it out there just Incase anyone else is having issues Mahalo.

star-affinity i don't know were you have this info, but the update contains no new driver or firmware for the graphics interface. The issue still persists, after some hibernates. I analyzed the content of this update, no graphics......... Please do not give any fake infos about graphics updates

tributepower

I don't deliberately give ”fake infos”. If I have done a mistake I will correct my post.

Edit:

I would update it if I could… Seems the tmee window for editing a post is rather short. 😟

Anyway, I will try to verify that about new graphics drivers in the 10.13.2 Supplemental Update. It's something that I was informed about, but didn't actually verify myself (therefore I wrote ”it seems” in my initial post).

I didn't have any of the mitigation techniques in use during my test, otherwise the testing would have been meaningless. 😝 After a few days, I still haven't experienced any slowdowns and haven't restarted the computer since the beta 4 install.

Got the same problem. MacBook itself is just about 3 months old, so no technical problems to be expected. Same as with you guys, bad FPS after long sleep. Only reboot fixes the problem.

Software that I could confirm to be affected:

- Photoshop CC 2018

- World of Warcraft

- Diablo 3

- Blender GPU Rendering

- Unigine Heaven Benchmark

On the phone with Apple support somewhen around the next few days, I'm letting you guys know if there is any news.

My System:

Unigine Heaven benchmark results (left: after some hours of sleep, right: after reboot)

Same problem on HighSierra and AMD Radeon R9 M370X

Apple and gaming/graphics are still in a confused relationship ...

Sierra vs High Sierra on NovaBench: (siera is high, like really 'high' 🙂)

Great hardware, good ideas, bad software lately 😟

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)

"Today it slept for 3 hours and still ran quickly!"

- please, this kind of info, even if true in your case, is never ever helping anyone!

It only makes Apple say "Oh, so in some cases it works!? Than go reinstall, replace the mackbook, etc." -> it makes it a user problem, see the idea...?

And about 3hours: 2h59m59s or 3h00m00s ? ...

You see, this is like math, and 0.1 something can make all the difference!