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spearer Author

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45 points

macOS High Sierra 10.13 slow graphics after battery sleep

2017 MacBook Pro 3.1Ghz

Having upgraded to macOS High Sierra 10.13, the graphics have slowed down significantly after sleep.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Close lid (default power settings)

2. Unplug from mains power

3. Wait 1 hour

4. Open lid and login

5. Try a graphics intensive app or game and notice a slow down?

Is this a known issue?

- Have a tried a clean install of 10.13.

- Have tried reverting to 10.12 (problem does not exist on 10.12.6)

The only option is to reboot.

MacBook Pro TouchBar and Touch ID, macOS High Sierra (10.13)

Posted on Oct 18, 2017 9:46 AM

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spearer Author

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45 points

Posted on Oct 22, 2017 2:53 AM

To update you further, I have reverted to macOS Sierra 10.12.6.

Although High Sierra promises great foundations for the future, I don't feel it's ready yet. Graphics and wake from sleep are quite fundamental issues and professionals require stability.

Looking forward to when these issues are resolved.. For now 10.12.6 is great.

Thanks,

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mjsagert

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13 points

Jan 12, 2018 9:58 AM in response to sff29

Installed 10.13.3 beta 4 yesterday to test for this issue. Ran Diablo III after install and worked on the PC using multiple applications (including Safari mentioned above). Let computer sleep for 8 hours, woke it from sleep, and immediately started Diablo III again. To my surprise, there was no slowdown in graphics performance this time.

This is the first time any version of High Sierra hasn't slowed down Diablo III after any amount of sleep (I've tried them all!). Had to roll back to Sierra to address the issue until now. Fingers crossed the bug is squashed on the next High Sierra release.

Forgot to mention I'm running a 2017 15" MacBook Pro w/Radeon Pro 560.

Jan 13, 2018 1:09 AM in response to sff29

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.

Jan 13, 2018 1:15 AM in response to mjsagert

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.

mjsagert

Level 1

13 points

Jan 14, 2018 10:50 AM in response to alexkay99

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.

kjetpett

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9 points

Jan 17, 2018 9:38 AM in response to spearer

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.

Nov 23, 2017 10:01 AM in response to spearer

Hi together,

I got the same explained issue. Some days I got the slow down after wake up and other days it works fine. I never used chrome. Reboot is a workaround. My setup:

spadilha

Level 1

4 points

Nov 25, 2017 1:46 PM in response to spearer

Same here!

ho_ax

Level 1

4 points

Dec 7, 2017 4:25 AM in response to osx_customer

Steve Jobs used big dispays intensively...)

Dec 10, 2017 11:04 AM in response to spearer

Same for me. I reproduced it with Cinebench

After a long hibernate

After a reboot

Jan 24, 2018 5:35 AM in response to spearer

spearer Author

Level 1

45 points

Oct 19, 2017 12:45 PM in response to brenden dv

Hi brenden dv,

I should have mentioned I already tried resetting NVRAM and SMC, same result.

Are you able to reproduce my issue on a similar machine?

Thanks,

spearer Author

Level 1

45 points

Nov 7, 2017 1:35 AM in response to Community User

- Disappointing that the issue is persistent in 10.13.1.

- Also noting that the graphics slow down is affecting multiple apps.

Thanks,

Nov 9, 2017 7:02 AM in response to spearer

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.