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Late-2013 MBP w/ NVIDIA 750 Unusable

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adamjackson

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NVIDIA GT GeForce 750M 2GB, Late 2013 MBP. After updating to High Sierra, the system freezes, kernel panics and UI is slower than a base MacBook when plugged into my 4K monitor. It's completely fine w/o the external display using Intel's built in GPU.

Here's my memory use with iStat Menus Open w/o any open applications:

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NVIDIA has released 3 GPU updates since I upgrade to High Sierra and all have made the issue slightly better but none have fixed it. Every guide on how to remove NVIDIA's custom CUDA drivers don't work in High Sierra. I go to the folders identified in NVIDIA's own documentation and there is no sign of the drivers there to delete. Anyone dealing with this and have any advice? I was waiting to post for the first HS update and now that it's out, my issues persists. I've been gettin work done w/o an external monitor which has really slowed down my productivity.
 
I have the same issue. It feels like a freeze, but it actually isn't... it just slows to a crawl. I've been able to recover by hitting cmd-q a few times and waiting for apps to quit, usually 3-4 mins. After that system seems to get back to normal until the next freeze.

I started to notice that everything a freeze comes, Safari is in the foreground. So, today I switched to using chrome only. So far, after about half a day, still no freezes. Fingers crossed.

I'm just using the std drivers from os, not nvidia's web drivers.
 
I have a 2013 MBP Retina w/ Geforce 750M. I wiped and reinstalled 10.12.6 a month ago for the same reason. Totally unusable. Watching a video, or being on a video conference, made the entire machine stutter and lag all over the place. I suspect at this point, I'm not upgrading this computer ever again.
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macagain said:
I started to notice that everything a freeze comes, Safari is in the foreground. So, today I switched to using chrome only. So far, after about half a day, still no freezes. Fingers crossed
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My experience was exactly the opposite. Safari was slightly more tolerable for video playback. Chrome was worse.
 
Well, switching to chrome didn't help. As I'd noted in another post, I've noticed that the freeze happens after I unplug from one monitor config and plug in another (going from home to office, and vice versa). in looking at the system log, I notice a lot of this msg prior to reboot, which goes away after reboot.

Nov 3 10:13:48 rwR com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

So, I'm going to try shutting down when i go between home and office and see if that makes things different.

BTW, I did not have this issue in Sierra
 
Been having the same problem. When I connect to my UHD tv my macbook becomes unuseable... Stuttering of the screens, freezing up, the whole shabang... can't locate the problem since it happens with both safari and chrome... even just watching a movie or using popcorn time screws everything up... This happened after I updated to high sierra...
The same goes for when I'm using safari, some simple matlab programming and ms word open.... Wish I never updated... Hopefully a fix or workaround will come soon.
 
Where do I find this feedback assistant?

edit: nevermind, found it

edit2: Apparently you're only allowed to use the assistant when you're enrolled as a beta tester...
 
Also have a late 2013 15-MBP. Latest CUDA update (which also states that an update is needed). FCPX is unusable. "Fortunately" I keep a 5,1 MP lying around ....
 
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