macOS High Sierra 10.13 slow graphics after battery sleep

I can confirm that this is NOT fixed in Beta 10.13.3.....

Tested with X-Plane 11, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom after long hibernates. Only reboot resolves the issue temporary

Come on Apple, talk about the issue and don't left the users alone. Same as your BatteryPerformanceGate.......

Yes, it seems the supplemental 10.13.2 update for some reason includes new graphics drivers for more or less all supported graphics cards (the ones from the upcoming 10.13.3 update perhaps? I don't know). Maybe it will solve this slow graphics after sleep problem some are seeing? I don't know that either, but give it a go! 🙂

Sorry, I made a mistake there. Seems there are no updated graphics drivers in the 10.13.2 Supplemental Update. If you go to ”Extensions” there under ”Software" in System Information you can list the Extensions by ”Last Modified” and it seems AMD graphics extensions hasn't been touched since September.

Another one in the same boat. mid-2014 rMBP 13". To me it seems the problem occurs whenever I do some intensive graphic work. Restart fixes the problem. Also, log-off/log-on does it too.

Thanks!

Trick with turning off automatic GPU switch during high speed period really helps! At least both short and long sleeps.

Same problem.

My system:

- MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016) Touch Bar, AMD Radeon Pro 460

- macOS 10.13.1

The same is reported in other communities.

Frame-rate problems after DL'ing High Sierra - World of Warcraft Forums

Okay, he said both, but the CUDA driver second after the other driver. With that said, this has worked for me thus far! If you try this and it works be sure to let others in this thread know. I'll let you know if the issues come back. TTFN

For what its worth, I’m experiencing the same issue with my mid-2015 rMBP 15” 2.2ghz/iris pro/512gb

A wake from sleep on battery (not plugged in) or any extended period of use without reboot or shutdown seems to trigger a noticeable drop in frames throughout the UI and desktop environment. A reboot does solve the problem.

This is very annoying. I’m glad to see though that I’m not alone; and it’s not only my machine specs with this issue since upgrading to high sierra.

Also check this Page, down below, for new NVIDIA OSX Drivers for "High Sierra":

Link: http://www.macvidcards.com/drivers.html

10.13.1 (17B48)378.10.10.10.20.107

This one worked for me.

I hope, it will help anybody of you, too.

I've been floating back and forth between this thread, and a few on reddit that are detailing others' experience(s) with this particular issue with graphics and macOS 10.13(.1) and the general consensus seems to be that the performance slow down/graphics issue isn't immediate after boot up, but takes time to set in--whether it's a sleep/wake issue, or just a general "time since boot" problem..I don't know.

I can appreciate the attempts at a fix by installing updated graphics drivers, but for those of us with the dedicated only graphics (in my case mid-2015 15"/iris pro only), those fixes don't begin to address the issue. Which is why I'm lead to believe the issue at hand is more a system wide problem and not related to any specific hardware or specs. Perhaps as has been suggested on here and elsewhere; metal 2...?

These issues are overall greatly irritating, but IMO, should serve as a lesson to those of us (*presumably most of us who belong to these support threads...because, let's be honest..we are a self selecting group...) that waiting a few months and keeping an eye on the tech headlines isn't always a bad decision..

Aha, it happens also for you with Intel only graphics. Sorry to hear. And yes, sure it could be something in Metal 2 and/or the WindowServer process that needs fixing, but this is just guessing on my part. 🙂 At the same time I wonder what it is that Nvidia is doing with their Web Driver that seems to help – I mean, this is still running on the same macOS 10.13.1. Hmm….

The problem isn't the automatic switching but low performance of the dGPU. For example, I can specifically choose the dGPU in Blender and get bad performance in the aforementioned setting.

I tried disabling the automatic switch though, didn't have any effect :-(

Haven't tried the latest beta yet, unfortunately I don't have the time to do that right now. Anyone else tried it?

Yeah, it is really frustrating...

Had yet another phone support session yesterday. I literally showed the support guy this thread and others on my screen, but he didn't even bother writing anything down. Instead I am scheduled for yet ANOTHER phone call this weekend.

And before you ask, phone support didn't seem to know about this problem and couldn't fix it either. Just the usual resetting/cache deleting/os reinstalling crap they give you to keep you busy :-/

I really don't want to go through the trouble of reinstalling the OS and if I am I would surely install Sierra just to be sure it's worth it. Reinstall it's not going to fix it, this is a ****** just like root issue. Either wait with the system like this or roll back to Sierra. I don't see any worth of wasting energy in troubleshooting this anymore. I give up. $2k machine acting like this is unacceptable.