Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

High Sierra's UI animation is lags

spasmsouns

spasmsouns

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Nov 5, 2017
6
1
Hi everyone! Sorry for my English, i know this language not so good.
So, let me speak about my problem:

I have iMac 27" middle 2011 (i5, 8GB RAM, AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512MB, SSD 250GB + HDD 500GB).

Everything was excellent, but recently something broke. I had an El Capitan installed, and everything was fine until UI started showing very very low fps. Firefox, safari, Finder, all system began to lag, to respond in a delay. In Activity Monitor everything was normal. RAM, CPU was not overloaded, computer does not overheat.

I tried to restart, i tried to reset SMC, PRAM, but this solved problem for a 5-10 minutes, then everything broke again. Then i tried a clean install macOS High Sierra, and a few days everything was fine, but today it happened again. I can resolve this problem by rebooting, and this is enough for several hours.

I don't know what to do, please, help me.

I'll attach a video showing the problem (it was recorded when el capitan was installed):
 
Do you mean even you leave the computer idle after cold boot, but the problem will still come after 5-10 min? Or it only comes when you use it for 5-10 min?
 
spasmsouns said:
Hi everyone! Sorry for my English, i know this language not so good.
So, let me speak about my problem:

I have iMac 27" middle 2011 (i5, 8GB RAM, AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512MB, SSD 250GB + HDD 500GB).

Everything was excellent, but recently something broke. I had an El Capitan installed, and everything was fine until UI started showing very very low fps. Firefox, safari, Finder, all system began to lag, to respond in a delay. In Activity Monitor everything was normal. RAM, CPU was not overloaded, computer does not overheat.

I tried to restart, i tried to reset SMC, PRAM, but this solved problem for a 5-10 minutes, then everything broke again. Then i tried a clean install macOS High Sierra, and a few days everything was fine, but today it happened again. I can resolve this problem by rebooting, and this is enough for several hours.

I don't know what to do, please, help me.

I'll attach a video showing the problem (it was recorded when el capitan was installed):
Click to expand...

The UI in El Capitan was always a bit rubbish with slow frame rates it was better than Yosemite though, you can either upgrade to Sierra or High Sierra for metal 2 support which seems to mitigate this issue to some extent.
 
h9826790 said:
Do you mean even you leave the computer idle after cold boot, but the problem will still come after 5-10 min? Or it only comes when you use it for 5-10 min?
Click to expand...
Samuelsan2001 said:
The UI in El Capitan was always a bit rubbish with slow frame rates it was better than Yosemite though, you can either upgrade to Sierra or High Sierra for metal 2 support which seems to mitigate this issue to some extent.
Click to expand...
I tried a clean install macOS High Sierra, and a few days everything was fine, but today it happened again. I can resolve this problem by rebooting, and this is enough for several hours.
 
spasmsouns said:
I tried a clean install macOS High Sierra, and a few days everything was fine, but today it happened again. I can resolve this problem by rebooting, and this is enough for several hours.
Click to expand...
My only experience with this kind of issue was when I had an app that was leaking some serious memory. The UI in macOS is relatively more memory hungry than others, and the bad frames you're getting could be the result of a memory leak. Are you using any third party applications, and is your software all up to date?
 
  • Like
Reactions: Samuelsan2001 and h9826790
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back