M2 Max GPU Artifacts

[bkdas0]

Hi everyone, my device is M2 Max MBP 16 (12c 38c).

Yesterday while using UTM (running Ubuntu 22.04) and playing back a video in PiP I encountered some GPU artifacting. I clicked on the menu bar then clicked on the VM and the system froze for about 10 seconds, I pressed the power key, when I locked the system on the lock screen there were weird artifacts. Those artifacts happened only on the lock screen and were reproducible locking the screen again.

I couldn't record it but it was something similar to this (bit more subtle, only lines not blocks) but only on the left side of the screen

https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/s18hek

After a reboot not I can't reproduce the issue, it seems like it went away. Can it be a problem with the GPU?

 

[dmccloud]

I haven't even heard of UTM before now, so I don't know if the issue described was related to issues with the GPU itself or something with the VM itself that caused the issue. I have only run Windows 11 via Parallels on my M2 Max, and I haven't seen any issues such as what you described.

 

[Blair110]

Has it only happened with UTM, and was it the Lock Screen for Ubuntu within the VM? Did any of the artifacting occur outside of the VM? Sounds almost like a driver issue since it only occurred on the Lock Screen. Keep an eye on it or see if perhaps you can run a GPU stress test in the MacOS environment.
You also can download a program like stats to monitor your temps too.
Good luck!

 

[bkdas0]

Has it only happened with UTM, and was it the Lock Screen for Ubuntu within the VM? Did any of the artifacting occur outside of the VM? Sounds almost like a driver issue since it only occurred on the Lock Screen. Keep an eye on it or see if perhaps you can run a GPU stress test in the MacOS environment.
You also can download a program like stats to monitor your temps too.
Good luck!

It was the macos lock screen only, what do you recommend as a stress test?