macOS High Sierra 10.13 slow graphics after battery sleep

I did the downgrade to Sierra, too. Apple Support couldn't help me fix the problem, but I need this to work reliably. I am sending them a bunch of log files and benchmark results instead, they are going to speak with some developers about the issue then. Or so the support person claimed.

I can only recommend that everyone with this issue is pitching the story to some tech news pages. I did this here in Germany with "Golem.de" and "Heise Online", and both of them published an article about the issue. Maybe others reported it, too:

https://www.heise.de/mac-and-i/meldung/Bug-in-macOS-High-Sierra-mindert-Grafikle istung-nach-Ruhezustand-3914088.html

MacOS High Sierra: Grafikleistung beim Macbook Pro bricht durch Bug ein - Golem.de

Golem.de even reproduced the issue on their own devices.

If more tech news magazines are picking up on this, we could stand a chance in getting our fix soon ;-)

Sounds great. I really want to believe it’s fixed.

I did some data capturing for Apple I was using 5 to 30 minute sleeps, it took five sleep/wake attempts before I saw my GPU performance sink. On the 5th attempt it had slept for 23 minutes. So rather than one or two long sleeps I’d like to know the result of many shorter ones. Please : - )

Also please make sure when going to sleep the game or intense graphics is not running (and Automatic switching is checked ...) otherwise the machine is going to sleep with Radeon engaged - in this case we don’t expect to see the issue even before that version.

Had the same experience here on my MB Pro 15" mid 2014/Nvidia GForce GT750m. After I installed High Sierra graphics performance became so sluggish that I had to turn off display scaling on my external 4K monitor. I installed the latest Nvidia CUDA drivers yesterday and things seem to be back to normal. Fingers crossed.

Unfortunately this is a known Bub on Apples software I am having the same issue while playing WOW if I restart the laptop it works fine note I have a MacBook Pro 2017 with Touch Bar

It's not fixed in 10.13.1, 10.13.2 beta 1 or beta 2.

Very disappointing to say the least.

Reported on Reddit: GPU Performance in High Sierra drops after sleepmode - MacOS
Reported on the MacRumors forums: 2017 MBP 15" Radeon GPU does not work after resume from long sleep

Reported on Blizzard's Diablo forums: High Sierra 10.13 - Low FPS - Diablo III forums

Reported on Blizzard's WoW forums: Frame-rate problems after DL'ing High Sierra - World of Warcraft forums

Found this to be relevant for this problem...

https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1705?viewlocale=nl_NL&locale=nl_NL

The problem is that the descriptions describes exactly what is happening but my MacBook is a bit younger...

Maybe it could help someone else.

Same problem here.

A full Shutdown / Reboot seems to workaround the issue which is good.

But even when the Radeon is working fast it does not always go at the same rate.

I'm getting average FPS figures like: 25, 67, 76, 87, 102, 24, 72, 107, 62, 59. It's all over the place.

Each figure is the average of a particular run. I expected spikes moment by moment but these are averages of completely different runs. These averages should be pretty consistent, say +/- 1 and not a range between 67 and 107. I've never seen that before.

These inexplicable fluctuations are sadly making this new 2017 MBP 15" worthless for game programming. I cannot know if what I'm doing is ruining the FPS or if it's just in a slow mood.

(I'm not including the 24 and 25 FPS - thankfully those low numbers do not occur after a full shutdown / reboot.)

Anyway I'd rather have a steady FPS of 17 +/- 1 rather than the wild fluctuations I'm seeing ...

I believe it's all fixable, so hopefully it'll get fixed soon.

Thanks.

(MBP 15" 2017 model with Radeon 555, High Sierra 12.13.1 and Xcode 9.1)

Just tried to switch into hibernatemode 0 and close lid for about 5-6 hours (we're both go actually sleep).

After wake up tried in World of Warcraft and nope: 120 fps in last zone with 2K resolution became 18 and no sizzle heard and metal stripe above touchbar became very hot. After MBP reboot R560 shows itself as a quite powerful GPU.

2017 MBP with 2.9 i7, 16 GB with R560.

I must say that for me High Sierra is faster overall both at launching apps (probably due to the new file system) and graphics (probably due to WindowServer is now using Metal). But this slow-down issue happened for me once on High Sierra on my MacBook Pro, and that suer isn't something that happened on Sierra. So I decided to install the Nvidia Web Driver, since the MacBook Pro I have has Nvidia graphics. I guess all those on AMD graphics just have to wait…

iOS 11 I agree is noticeably slower than iOS 10, at least on a iPhone 6.

Anyway, macOS 10.13.2 beta 5 is out now, maybe it will take care of things?

I tried reinstalling High Sierra clean from scratch, but it did not help. The problem was still there. So don't waste your time. I now installed the older Sierra to get rid of the problem for the time being.

Thankfully I left one of my 4 MacBook Pros on Sierra - I just ran the same test - rock solid. Frame rate is only +/- 1 which is very stable.

And sleep vs shutdown doesn't matter it's always the same.

spearer wrote > professional users who just need the system to reliably perform should not upgrade yet

True. And what was I thinking!

It is OK if you only use Mail and Safari. But anything to do with games is going to be painful.

I reported it on the feedback page, both for 10.13.0 and 10.13.1.

Didn't know about the other page. And honestly I can't be bothered to spend more energy on this.

I just did a couple of PRAM and SMC/NVRAM resets, followed by clearing out ALL caches and everything with Onyx, followed by resetting PRAM and SMC/NVRAM again, then booting, firing up World of Warcraft where I got around 120fps with my settings. Then I put the computer to sleep for an hour, woke it up, started the game again and got about 27fps...

All this was on 10.13.2 release on a MBP 2017 i7 2.9, Radeon Pro 560 4GB, 512GB SSD.

I'm done with HS for now. Gonna wipe it off the HDD and reinstall 10.12.6 from scratch and stay on that for quite a while.

So I've been in the same boat for long now and have been following this thread and talked to Apple too without any luck.

But I have now found out during the past week that when I play my usual game of LOL, I now tick off the setting "Wait for Vertical Sync (disables Software Mouse handling)".

This works for me and will give me full FPS in game.

Im running on a MID 2012 Macbook pro with intel graphics only.

I have been running 10.13.3 Beta 2 and on my Late 2015 MBP with AMD Graphics the issue seems to have been resolved. I have been testing all this week, and it wakes up from sleep and I am not seeing any graphics slowdowns