macOS High Sierra 10.13 slow graphics after battery sleep

A little early to say for sure, but High Sierra 10.13.3 Public Beta 3 seems to solve the slow graphics issue. (2016 MBP, Radeon Pro 460).

I used Unigine Heaven and Deus Ex Mankind Divided after 3 sleep/wake cycles and performance was exactly as expected. Hopefully it stays that way!

Until the release version of macOS 10.13.2 (17C88), I experienced Radeon Pro 460 graphics performance issues after a long time sleep.

After installing macOS 10.13.3 beta 3 (17D29a), the issues is not occurring until now.

Putting the machine to sleep with Radeon or Nvidia engaged has been one of our work arounds. Machine goes to bed fast and wakes up fast. To see the issue it needs to sleep with Integrated graphics.

So I wonder if that’s all that is going on here, do you have something like gfxCardStatus so you can see which chip is engaged when putting machine to sleep?

I do not use Chrome anymore because of its bloat and because it always forced the second graphics card to be engaged. I wonder if Firefox is doing the same? If that’s the case then no surprise you‘re only seeing full speed graphics.

Apart from the full blown slow down I have seen some less intense slow downs when other apps are running along side my game. When I shut down these apps I’ve seen the FPS go up right in front of my eyes. It seems like there is some sharing of resources going on.

In my case, disabling Automatic Graphics switching did improve the performance. This only applies if you have a dedicated graphics card. It still is a workaround though.

I think I've resolved this issue on my machine by disabling a custom color profile on my external display. Are you using the default color profile, or something custom?

Just updated to 10.13.3, it appears to have been resolved. 🙂 /knock on wood.

I am using Google Chrome but graphics performance is not slowing down when using Chrome. When performance drops (after sleep or after a long day of work), I logout and -in again, performance is restored. I use Chrome all day long. I cannot reproduce the performance slow-down in a reproducible way.

I found a couple things thought you all would find helpful. 1) Page of Nvidia archived Mac drivers. You'll see the latest was actually Nov 2, 2017. 2) A thread on Nvidia's Devtalk forum that runs through some steps to potentially fix the issues we're all having. I haven't tried it yet, but will be and will report back.

Let us know if this works for you too.

Same, or similar issue here. Even desktop apps, especially Java applications became very slow and unresponsive after the High Sierra Upgrade. I tried a completely new installation, resetting NVRAM, SMC, ... but the issue persisted. Also 10.13.1 did not improve the situation. I could hardly work on the MacBook anymore. It was much worse when working on an external display, which forced the switch to the Nvidia card.

I did now downgrade to Sierra and the problem is gone. Hopefully this will be resolved soon.

MacBook Pro 15 - Mid 2014 with NVIDIA GT 750M

An update on the "fast or faster" point I tried to make previously.

After a sleep - graphics goes south - definitely "slow mood" - we all know that and hopefully Apple knows it too : - )

But even after a full shutdown / reboot I was reporting too much variation in the games I'm developing.

I seem to have narrowed this down now - it's a simple case of close all other apps in particular Safari with a bunch of youtube tabs ... then I get the very fastest speed.

Big difference:

Slow 25 FPS (needs a full reboot), fast 60 (close safari etc...), fastest 100 FPS - more like it.

I would advise everyone to rule out a possible issue with the dedicated GPU because this is happening on integrated Intel cards too. Someone tried disabling Night Shift and install Flux instead? It worked for a guy on MacRumors forums.

Unfortunately, installing clean system (did many times) it's not changing anything. Turning off the SSD auto power off didn't change anything too. For me, only way is to get Sierra back and I'm advising this to anyone who only can. For an average user, the main different is the wallpaper. And so far, after got back to Sierra:

10:37 up 3 days, 8:23, 2 users, load averages: 1.50 1.49 1.48

And everything works like a charm. I think, we just have to wait until Apple will fix it.

Just throwing my hat in the ring, I had this problem on my Early 2013 MBP 15" and nothing helped to solved it except reverting back to Sierra. Don't waste your time with High Sierra. There are ZERO user features, and many low level system changes (AFPS/METAL2) which are just not finished yet. High Sierra is one massive beta test and Apple should be embarrassed by it. The latest security issue is just a symptom of that.