MP 1,1-5,1 HS "Security"-Update leaves machine unusable AGAIN!

[flyproductions]

Anybody installed this too? Sadly i did!

Luckily i had my drive mirrored before. Otherwise i would not be able to write this.
Because after the update in every Apple App, Safari, Mail, AppStore every window's content rendered just black! No mail can be read. No website seen. No app installed. Nothing!

Also the Apple, search an notification icons in the menubar are missing. So it all seems to be a big mess again.

Anybody experienced similar or (better) had success installing and has any idea what i could be doing wrong?

 

[flyproductions]

Quick Fix!

Problem seems not to be on Apple’s side! Culprit turned out to be the new nVIDIA web driver 387.10.10.10.40.135!

I just returned to 387.10.10.15.15.108 and everything works fine again. So i strongly recommend not to install 387.10.10.10.40.135!

 

[MarkC426]

Your not alone, someone on another thread had problems with the Mojave update, they had amd gpu. So not nvidia driver issue there.

 

[flyproductions]

So not nvidia driver issue there.

Yes, i have seen his thread...

...but for me, after switching to the "unbreakable" driver, it seems to work fine so far.

 

[tsialex]

Don't worry your NVIDIA drivers stopping to work after every High Sierra Security Update will end really soon!

After 10.16 release, October this year if Apple don't delay it because of COVID-19, High Sierra will not receive any more Security Updates ever… ?

 

[flyproductions]

After 10.16 release, October this year if Apple don't delay it because of COVID-19, High Sierra will not receive any more Security Updates ever… ?

For what i see now with updates sometimes even pulled after a few days and how "nicely" Catalina works, this might be the best "solution".

 

[GHelf]

No luck for me with this update. Unfortunately there were a few convoluted steps.

1. Prior to "security" update, I installed CUDA to see if I could get it running for some of my rendering software. It was crashing my rendering program so I thought I might not be current.

2. At that point I ran the "security" update and then updated NVIDIA driver.

3. Ever since then, and after many install and uninstall, whenever the NVIDIA driver is active I get screen ghosting and redraw lags.

4. I have removed all NVIDIA drivers (including CUDA) and am running with the Apple driver.

Machine is:
Mac Pro (mid 2010)
OS 10.13.6 (17G12034)
Flashed NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 4096 MB

I have tried the following drivers:
WebDriver-387.10.10.10.40.135
WebDriver-387.10.10.10.40.134
WebDriver-387.10.10.15.15.108

General question— if I am not running CUDA, what difference is there in performance between running the default built in driver vs. NVIDIA WebDriver?

Any help is appreciated,

Thanks,

Gary

 

[flyproductions]

General question— if I am not running CUDA, what difference is there in performance between running the default built in driver vs. NVIDIA WebDriver?

Don’t know, if this is of any help for you. But the one thing i know is that 387.10.10.15.15.108 is not working with the most recent Cuda driver. It supports only up to 418.105.

 

[GHelf]

Thanks. Prior to all this, I just had WebDriver and no CUDA. Currently, just trying to get back to there.