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Dan Yetman
9/27/2017 07:56:47 am
Seems to have some problems. Encounter a "Driver encountered a problem" message while installing on Mac Pro 5,1, and continuing gets it 'working', but it's slow and there's some graphical glitchiness (not quite like using the OS X CPU driver, but similar).
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John Graham
9/30/2017 09:01:47 am
Same here running on a patched 3.1 Mac Pro with GTX 1080. Windows do not update when moving or resizeing.
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Tiberiu
10/3/2017 01:35:52 am
I'm also waiting for the new Cuda driver. The latest version 9.0.197 is not compatible with High Sierra "Supported MAC OS X 10.12.x". High Sierra is 10.13. My MacPro 5.1 (with Geforce GTX 980Ti) works fine, but all the apps that require Cuda switched to OpenCL.
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Gary
9/27/2017 09:14:36 am
Installing this driver put my 5,1 mac pro into endless start up boot. Upon installing it did the same thing as above, 2 driver managers in top task bar. Unable to get system to boot properly, now doing a complete restore from last night and I guess will try a different approach. Make sure you have a backup before installing :)
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William Espinal
10/9/2017 11:08:07 am
You need an original card that came with your Mac first I had your same problem. I installed the gt 120 video card downloaded the drivers first then your Mac will boot up fine, take out the gt 120 and install the video card you want problem solved. I have a gtx 980ti and 64gb of ram on two 2010 Mac Pro 5.1. macvidcards thank you you saved my behind
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Murat M.
11/7/2017 03:45:03 pm
Hello William, Can you tell me how you instaled the driver on high sierra? The terminal command did not work with sierra. Is it working with High Sierra now? I have a flashed GTX 980 and can not get it to work. Would be happy about help. Greating Murat
william espinal
11/8/2017 03:38:35 am
Hello, Murat 9/27/2017 01:03:32 pm
I had the same issues as Dan. Got an error during installation, and after reboot the Finder/Dock is slow and glitchy. I opened the installer .pkg and checked that files had been installed in the correct place, but clearly something isn't right. The Nvidia Driver Manager preference pane on my system seems to be an old version, so perhaps that's the item that didn't get installed correctly. I tried to manually run the 'NVPrefPane.pkg' item I extracted from the full installer and it wouldn't run. CUDA is also complaining.
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Updated my 2012 5,1 w/ Macvidcards flashed GTX980 and everything seems to work fine. No hiccups except the CUDA preferences is telling me there is an update required despite running the latest 9.0.197. Saw small bumps in Lexmark, Cinebench and Geekbench as well. So far so good.
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Doubt it makes a difference, but I had first installed the new CUDA driver before the update to High Sierra. After I installed High Sierra I then went to the Nvidia preferences panel and checked for updates, then let it download and install the update itself from within system preferences -- rather than installing it myself from the .pkg manually.
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Paul Drummond
9/28/2017 08:41:30 am
I had a similar issue with Iray for Cinema 4D and Mac OS 10.12 until the drivers got an update. I think we just have to wait and hope.
Thomas Scott
9/27/2017 02:15:59 pm
Tried it on my CMP 5,1 12-core for my flashed Titan X. Accepted the driver offered from the Nvidia Prefs pane. First reboot "stalled" on the grey apple screen with the thermometer barely creeping forward; after about an hour of nothing I did a hard power-down and restart. Endless boot looping ensued. Tried Single User mode with [sudo nvram boot-args="nv_disable=1"] switch but no love. Resored from last Time Machine backup and am running again using native OS X driver (not special).
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Andy D
9/27/2017 05:52:42 pm
All working with a GTX 1080 Ti here now. The trick I had is that Gatekeeper wants to block loading of the kernel extension. I got a pop-up message while installing. Once installation of the driver is complete, don't reboot - load System Preferences, head to Security and Privacy and click 'Allow' next to the 'NVIDIA Corporation' notification. Then, force-quit the installer and run it again. This time, no message from Gatekeeper. Reboot and the driver is spot on.
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Paul Drummond
9/28/2017 01:13:14 am
I wasn't getting any warnings from GateKeeper so couldn't do this. According to the system profiler the GeForceWeb extension is being loaded and I have Metal v2 support, but performance is pretty bad.
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Paul Drummond
9/28/2017 01:19:39 am
The dock is solid white, not transparent as usual. I thought this meant the system was using the default drivers but these don't support the Titan X. Previously the system wouldn't boot unless I installed the Nvidia web drivers.
Paul Drummond
9/28/2017 02:03:17 am
I've submitted a support request to Nvidia. It was quite tricky because the graphics driver problems mean Safari can't render their website properly. I had to use the element inspector to find the submit button!
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Dan Yetman
9/30/2017 06:12:52 am
So, it appears that, at the very least, the CUDA drivers are broken - not, in my opinion, should be something that breaks the actual display drivers so badly - but Nvidia have promised better CUDA at a later date.
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Luka
9/28/2017 10:49:24 am
poor performance, non-transparent dock... after next restart: endless boot-cycle... how to fix that?
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Dan Yetman
9/28/2017 03:10:58 pm
I think the worst part is that, with the change from HFS+ to APFS, reverting back to a previous OS is no longer a painless procedure.
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Paul Drummond
9/30/2017 07:16:00 am
Just got this from Nvidia tech support:
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John Graham
9/30/2017 11:06:55 am
FYI on the driver on the Nvida download page about the Cuda driver.
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Paul Drummond
9/30/2017 11:12:47 am
This could be what’s causing the problem but I didn’t get any kind of alert in the security settings. Just a more vague ‘the installer had an error message’.
John Svec
9/30/2017 11:05:07 am
Very slow cinebench scores. I have a Mac Pro 5,1 12 core @ 3.46 ghz 64 gigs ram, Nvidia 980 TI
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Paul Drummond
9/30/2017 11:09:26 am
Everyone should report the issues to NVIDIA tech support. The more information they have the quicker they can fix the drivers.
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Hey, So, on the good news front I finally got HS Web Driver to work.
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Thomas Scott
10/1/2017 11:11:52 am
Thank you, Dave, this worked for me as well (thankfully *without* bricking my PCIe SSD boot drive).
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Carbon43
10/1/2017 03:53:54 pm
I can confirm this worked for me as well. Specifically following Thomas's process. Should note that the first time I threw the nvidia card back in I got a black screen, and wound up swapping back to my 4870 thinking I'd borked it. Didnt bother with a second PRAM reset on restart, and got OS right away, still with nvidia web drivers selected. Might just have been taking a really long time before. Swapped back to 1080 and tried again, and it came right up after a couple minutes. Full transparency, no tearing.
slim
12/18/2017 12:39:50 pm
ho ! Thx for this Thomas ...
Lxixboss
10/1/2017 04:59:47 pm
I installed the High Sierra update onto my 2011 Imac 27 which has a 2GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 765M which I transplanted from a Sager laptop. After I installed the Nvidia web drivers, I also get the Cuda Preferences message saying that an update is required. I deleted the preferences pane and downloaded the CUDA drivers from the Nvidia website (4.1.19.4606). I still get the same nagging message upon startup but everything else is running very smoothly including a translucent dock.
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Paul Drummond
10/2/2017 01:33:22 am
Uninstalling the web drivers, restarting with a PRAM reset, then re-installing the web drivers worked for me too. I had to replace the Titan X with an older card for this operation so I'd have something that could boot using the drivers included with Mac OS, but I afterwards I was able to put it back in place. CUDA is still complaining, but I remember this from previous upgrades. Hopefully the next CUDA update will sort it out.
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Paul Drummond
10/2/2017 08:29:46 am
Uninstalling the drivers, resetting PRAM, then re-installing will work for a Hackintosh, but you'll have to temporarily re-enable SIP.
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John Svec
10/2/2017 02:01:52 pm
Thats good news for some, but I'm not dealing with resetting PRAM then having to slightly disable SIP I have lots of software that will not work correctly with SIP on.
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Paul Drummond
10/3/2017 09:37:38 am
I only had to re-enable SIP for the installation of the Nvidia web drivers. Once that was done I could disable SIP.
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Paul Drummond
10/3/2017 09:35:59 am
Just been told a CUDA update for Mac OS 10.13 will be out soon.
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John Svec
10/3/2017 03:17:03 pm
Thanks for that piece of news Paul. But I don't think SIP has anything to do with it. Seems it would be refused by macOS and not just get the "Seems to have some problems. Encounter a "Driver encountered a problem" message while installing on Mac Pro 5,1. I'm in no big hurry anyways, my mac smokes on El Capitan... I have the Refind boot loader because I run Windows 10 and varieties of Linux occasionally. After clicking on my usual choice "El Capitan" Both monitors are on and all booting activity finishes ready to rock in like 4-5 seconds... Even if I choose Windows 10, maybe 10-15 seconds as that ssd is in a drive bay. El Capitan is on a Samsuncg PCI Flash 500 gig.
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Petros Paranikas
10/3/2017 10:01:37 pm
If you could post updated instructions to disable the web drivers (so that one can the access the recovery mode) and then enable them (so that you can boot normally), that'd be much appreciated. Have managed to disable the driver, disable SIP but have been unable to re-enable the Nvidia driver under High Sierra. Thx so much & keep up the good work!
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Paul Drummond
10/4/2017 01:23:32 am
To disable SIP and install the Nvidia web drivers I did the following:
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John Svec
10/4/2017 04:36:03 am
I'll give that a shot Paul after work... SIP is not a big deal, it is all the PRAM settings I chooses not to mess with because of the bootloader and my sound prefs, using toslink digiital out to my Denon receiver with a pair of B&W speakers.... I can rock the neighborhood.
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10/6/2017 12:21:17 am
Don't update to the 10.13 Supplemental Update!
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John Svec
10/6/2017 09:34:27 pm
John is right, I saw that they had the new display driver for the Supplemental Update... Borked High Sierra as he said, endless boot loop. Fortunately I have El Capitan on it's own PCI SSD, I just held the option key after forced shit-down and rebooted to 10.11.6 Then I borked High Sierra, Disk Utility... gone for a long time. Centos 7.2 liked that HD Intel 180 gig SSD to keep Windows 10 Enterprise company beside it :)
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Paul Drummond
11/3/2017 11:13:31 am
Has anyone tried the 10.13.1 update with the latest Nvidia web drivers? Does it all work?
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John Svec
11/7/2017 08:26:38 pm
I made a full 10.13.1 bootable disk with Diskmaker X7 and installed rigt over 10.11.6, then the new driver. Graphics work perfect. I had a few apps messed up like Messages, Contacts, something else.... Esay fix with the install media, just navigate your install disk and re-install with Pacifist. Apple tells you to re-install the whole OS. No fricking way.
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1/20/2018 01:13:48 am
High Sierra 10.13.2- 2013 iMac 27- nVidia GeForce 780m.
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John
9/27/2018 11:50:35 am
So where is the driver for 10.14?
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