macOS High Sierra 10.13 slow graphics after battery sleep

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 :-/

Hi Spearer (not ho_ax here but ...)

Unfortunately disabling automatic graphics does not workaround the problem, it is suppose to lock in the discrete graphics - the Console and all indicators say it is engaged ... but the speed is same as integrated graphics.

As for simple fix, they are putting Metal 2 on top of the existing OpenGL foundation so I'm not surprised there are issues, especially in recovery from sleep/hibernate.

Hopefully it'll be fixed in 10.13.2

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.

Just to keep you guys updated: Got off the phone with apple support just now, the guy had two treats for me:

- uncheck "put hard disk to sleep when possible" in energy options

- clean install of macOS high sierra

-.-

I am SO looking forward to testing the reinstall and getting all my stuff back from a backup :-/

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.

I think many people already have tried full reinstalls, but the results are the same.

If I were doing a full reinstall I would simply use 10.12.6 Sierra and wait 6 months (.5 patch) before I tried High Sierra again.

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.

Yeah, just leave it and try to survive another week. Seems 10.13.2 is pretty close, and I’d be surprised if that update doesn’t fix this. There are usually graphics card driver updates included in every 10.xx.x update.

Having same problem - 2017 Macbook Pro 2.9 GHz AMD 560. Upgraded to 10.13.1 yesterday and the difference is insane. I'm getting maybe a quarter of the performance I was getting with sierra. Super bummed. I wish I found this thread before I upgraded!

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.

Man that *****... how can we even be sure that Apple knows about this problem? I specifically asked the support guys if this problem is known to Apple and everyone said "absolutely not, heard it for the first time myself". Surely this could be a strategy by Apple, but an official statement would be much apreciated nevertheless.

I think I'm going to collect my hard data in form of benchmarks into a pdf and pitch it to a few tech news sites, maybe they care more about us than Apple does 😁

andytran93 reported that the issue is still there on 10.13.2 Beta 6, so it will not be fixed in the imminent final release of 10.13.2, probably. I wouldn't be surprised to know that Apple still isn't working on a fix at all.