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Help, Freezing! No NVIDIA driver updates for Late 2013 imac.

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Jenlynn

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Oct 26, 2022
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Hello everyone, this is my first post. :)

I need your advice on what to do with an old computer that's starting to freeze up during gaming due to lack of graphic card driver updates. Buy a new computer or is there a fix?

Problems:
My entire computer just freezes, I can hear people talking in the background, but I have to manually restart my computer when this happens.

in game;
I'm constantly seeing glitches and artifacts and of course there's lag.
There's stuttering when my characters moving... and some of those will turn into my computer freezing up.
Ive tried everything from lowering all my settings to deleting addons.
Nothing helps.


Here are my stats:
iMac (27-inch, Late 2013)
3.5 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
24 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M 2 GB


NVIDIA apparently will no longer provide driver updates for mac, right? So then what am I to do now? I have no other issues with my computer but when playing world of warcraft (and I don't play any other games).

Do I buy a whole computer to fix this mess?
Should I buy an external graphic card? But then my computers so old, maybe I should just buy a new computer?
Is there a hack I can work with?
See why i needed to ask you guys?

I am novice at this, I dont mess with my computer at all.
Heck I didnt even know Nvidia hadnt updated my drivers in years until my computer started freezing up on me.
Maybe its not even the graphic card issue?

- Last update provided by Nvidia 2019 https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/cuda/mac-driver-archive/ :(

Thank you very much for your suggestions and advice.
 
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Jenlynn said:
Hello everyone, this is my first post. :)

I am novice at this, I dont mess with my computer at all.
Heck I didnt even know Nvidia hadnt updated my drivers in years until my computer started freezing up on me.
Maybe its not even the graphic card issue?

- Last update provided by Nvidia 2019 https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/cuda/mac-driver-archive/ :(

Thank you very much for your suggestions and advice.
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If you can't afford a new gaming machine, I would suggest you lower your game setting (resolution, details, etc) or quit the game.
 
Jenlynn said:
Hello everyone, this is my first post. :)

I need your advice on what to do with an old computer that's starting to freeze up during gaming due to lack of graphic card driver updates. Buy a new computer or is there a fix?

Problems:
My entire computer just freezes, I can hear people talking in the background, but I have to manually restart my computer when this happens.
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It’s unlikely that your computer is freezing up because of an old graphics driver. If that were the case, then it would’ve been happening shortly after the current driver was installed. Apple included updates to graphics cards in their operating system updates so it may not be running as old a driver as you think anyway.
It’s more likely that the computer is just developing a problem due to age– it may just be that dust inside is preventing the computer from staying cool.
 
chrfr said:
It’s unlikely that your computer is freezing up because of an old graphics driver. If that were the case, then it would’ve been happening shortly after the current driver was installed. Apple included updates to graphics cards in their operating system updates so it may not be running as old a driver as you think anyway.
It’s more likely that the computer is just developing a problem due to age– it may just be that dust inside is preventing the computer from staying cool.
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hm, let me try to clean the computer first, before ordering a new pc. Thanks for the tip! :)
 
I just downloaded a CPU temperature measuring addon to test for overheating.
In the meantime, does anyone know a guide where it'll show me how to clean the dust inside? Looking at my 27" Imac, I cant figure out where to even begin this task, its sealed so tight. How do you even open this machine?
 
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Jenlynn said:
I just downloaded a CPU temperature measuring addon to test for overheating.
In the meantime, does anyone know a guide where it'll show me how to clean the dust inside? Looking at my 27" Imac, I cant figure out where to even begin this task, its sealed so tight. How do you even open this machine?
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It's quite complicated to open an iMac- the screen is taped in and there are a bunch of cables that don't have much extra length. It's not a job for the inexperienced.
 
Jenlynn said:
I just downloaded a CPU temperature measuring addon to test for overheating.
In the meantime, does anyone know a guide where it'll show me how to clean the dust inside? Looking at my 27" Imac, I cant figure out where to even begin this task, its sealed so tight. How do you even open this machine?
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If you don't know how to do it, you'd better not do it at all.
There have been a lot of people broke their iMac screens when trying to pull that trick.
 
Nguyen Duc Hieu said:
If you don't know how to do it, you'd better not do it at all.
There have been a lot of people broke their iMac screens when trying to pull that trick.
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Youre right lol. There's no way I could do this...then to glue it all back together ...no way. o_O
 
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