High Sierra and The Nvidia Web Driver

[h9826790]

What "2.5 GT/s" bug? If you mean the GPU cannot negotiate at 5GT/s link speed in macOS, that was fixed by Nvidia long time ago.

New CUDA available through system Prefs

And here:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cuda-387.178-driver.html

Lou

All those updates, OS or NVIDIA side, and the "2.5 GT/s" bug remains. Probably it's here to stay.

[h9826790]

I am one of those with an unaffected system (performance wise), but I am with the genuine Mac Pro 2009 (flashed 5,1).

Hi All,

I read the whole topic to find a possible solution for my bad nVidia 1080Ti experience, mainly since Sierra / High Sierra. As noticed by members in the hackintosch scene recently on TonyMacX86 / InsanelyMac the nVidia drivers are terrible. Special the latest are almost unusable. Fallback to older versions will help but to some point they will cause problems too because they are old and not intent to be used on the latest MacOS versions.

At this moment I'm using an old version of the nVidia drivers : 378.10.10.10.25.106 together with two options "System Preferences / Accessibility / Display / Reduce Motion + Reduce Transparency the GUI responds more snappy and to some point even to an almost acceptable experience. Also Cuda performance is very good 12200GB / Host to Device and reverse. The issue looks to be GUI related only.

I am still looking to a possible solution or to find out why the hell the experience is so bad. So I bought an old R9 280X to be added in my hack. I was unlucky because the card did only one good Valley bench and after it failed and caused artefacts so this card is dead. The card was performing perfectly without issues but again its no party against the 1080Ti when it comes to gaming which I also do on my Hack from time to time. Also struggling with many GPU's in a system is also far from comfortable. I also considered to move to AMD Vega 64 but I'm to spoiled with the 1080Ti if we are talking to gaming performance in windows, especially when it comes to 4K gaming.

After reading this topic I came to a few conclusions.

• Best is to stick to MacPro5,1 SMBios definition. This definition is supported by the nVidia WebDrivers. Other SMBios definitions are unsure to work as they should.
• The main reason of lags can be narrowed to the latest CPU's like Skylake and newer or in combination with mainboards with the latest chipsets to drive these CPU's

Do I forget things here ˆˆˆ?

I also read comments from guys in this topic that they are fully comfortable with the drivers and don't experience any lags at all with 10xx or specific with the 1080Ti. Are they indeed on older CPU / Mainboards?
Do I miss something, and is there something to be the "Golden Tip" to solve my issue?

Because eGPU's are officially supported more people will throw in a GPU in an enclosure to profit from extra external GPU performances. Although Apple has announced that only AMD will be supported there is a chance
that nVidia will provide better drivers that their cards are supported as well. I hope this brings better drivers for us, hackintoshers as well!.

 

[eVasilis]

What "2.5 GT/s" bug? If you mean the GPU cannot negotiate at 5GT/s link speed in macOS, that was fixed by Nvidia long time ago.

Just a cosmetic one in the PCI section of system report

[h9826790]

I see. Yes, that cosmetic bug still there.

What "2.5 GT/s" bug? If you mean the GPU cannot negotiate at 5GT/s link speed in macOS, that was fixed by Nvidia long time ago.

Just a cosmetic one in the PCI section of system report

[Rominator]

And if you put a new Vega in there I think it reports PCIE 3.0 speeds.

[eVasilis]

Driver now updated to 387.10.10.10.30.106. No clue what it does, no time to check...

[lowrider]

Thanks - Here:

https://images.nvidia.com/mac/pkg/387/WebDriver-387.10.10.10.30.106.pkg

Lou

[h9826790]

Driver now updated to 387.10.10.10.30.106. No clue what it does, no time to check...

A quick test shows that the glitches in FCP X preview is fixed (this is 100% reproducible when previewing Titles, so very easy to check).

And so far, I didn't see any colour bug when Transparency is ON. I tried a lot of Finder Windows movement, but still didn't hit one. For the old V387 driver, even though still need some "luck" to see that, but usually easy to hit one within 5min.

And super smooth for about 1 hour now. So, should be quite safe to use this driver.

[mysticalos]

Reading about update on reddit it fixes the lag issues too

Important to note about person recommending lilu and fixup. FYI the workaround they were using for lag was to force opengl mode instead of metal on windowserver. If the drivers fix bug, you WANT to be using metal not opengl. I generally avoid lilu in general too cause every macos update people update to new version and start having kernel panics until lilu is updated. It's a pretty low level kernel hack so it always needs updates too before updating macOS (and always someone doesn't listen).

It also taints nvidia driver so libval is no longer valid (which is also why fixup also does libval work around)

TLDR though, if you don't NEED lilu or any of fixups, it's best to run as vanilla as possible so libval is clean and nvidia drivers run the optimized metal path. Only use work arounds if it doesn't work otherwise, Don't use them cause everyone on and their grandma on tonymac said so.

I run a hack and it's very clean.

[eVasilis]

Driver now updated to 387.10.10.10.30.106. No clue what it does, no time to check...

A quick test shows that the glitches in FCP X preview is fixed (this is 100% reproducible when previewing Titles, so very easy to check).

And super smooth for about 1 hour now. So, should be quite safe to use this driver.

That is good news. Now, if only export and render times in fcpx were improved, I would be particularly happy... oh well, I guess fcpx is only geared towards AMD.

[Asgorath]

That is good news. Now, if only export and render times in fcpx were improved, I would be particularly happy... oh well, I guess fcpx is only geared towards AMD.

What GPU and CPU are you using?  What performance do you get with the BruceX benchmark?

FWIW I also have a very "clean" Hackintosh setup, I have SIP enabled and only inject FakeSMC and the IntelMausiEthernet driver to enable networking.  I use a USB audio device so I can avoid the audio hacks as well.

[lowrider]

New driver!

https://images.nvidia.com/mac/pkg/387/WebDriver-387.10.10.10.30.106.pkg

Guess you missed my post just above yours?

Lou

[eVasilis]

What GPU and CPU are you using?  What performance do you get with the BruceX benchmark?

FWIW I also have a very "clean" Hackintosh setup, I have SIP enabled and only inject FakeSMC and the IntelMausiEthernet driver to enable networking.  I use a USB audio device so I can avoid the audio hacks as well.

I use a 12 core 2010 mac pro, that is 2X2.66 Ghz CPUs, 48 gig or RAM and a GTX 980. The Os is on an 512 MB EVO 850. With El Capitan I could export from BruceX in 29 to 30 secs. I tried to run it with 10.3.4 and the latest nvidia drivers but I cancelled it after 2 minutes. Rest is fine.

[Asgorath]

I use a 12 core 2010 mac pro, that is 2X2.66 Ghz CPUs, 48 gig or RAM and a GTX 980. The Os is on an 512 MB EVO 850. With El Capitan I could export from BruceX in 29 to 30 secs. I tried to run it with 10.3.4 and the latest nvidia drivers but I cancelled it after 2 minutes. Rest is fine.

By latest driver, do you mean the one that just came out this week?

[eVasilis]

Precisely; it was the same with the previous one, though.