Plus there is nothing running in the background. You can run all the rigorous OpenGL benchmark tools and it won’t kernel panic. The kext hack just leaves the nvidia on but at a medium speed setting all the time, which prevents the capacitor problem and retains OpenGL compatibility. Plus OS X seems to need to flip the nvidia back on whenever you quit an app and gfxCardStatus can’t do anything about that, so you still run the risk the nvidia could turn on and end up with a kernel panic. Plus it has to run in the background all the time. And there are other weird issues with it. GfxCardStatus works by disabling the nvidia entirely which occasionally can cause some apps to not even render correctly or not work. It would probably get in the way of serious gaming in which case you need to fix the capacitor. In theory the above hack prevents the nvidia from running at its top speed, which means video frame rates of animated stuff is a little reduced, but it’s plenty fast to run logic and you tube and everything else most of us do. Just back up the kext first! I think he has those manual directions on the github site.
#GPU UTILITY FOR MAC HOW TO#
There are directions about how to do this manual tweak yourself and I think you should be able to do it in your older OS X. It’s the change of speed that causes the capacitor to have a problem. But since figuring this out I have upgraded to Sierra and it has been very stable for me.īut anyway the gpufix is basically to tweak the powermanagement kext so that the nvidia doesn’t change speeds. I don’t know why it never happened before that. I was on el cap for a long time and mavericks is when I started getting the kernel panics for some reason.
That is correct about the warm up and you have to keep it running hot to keep it from happening. Two, you can’t use an external display with that patch, you will need to fix the capacitor in order to use external display. One, every time you update OS X you have to rerun the fixer to repatch the kext. XRG allows you to monitor CPU activity, GPU activity, memory usage, battery status, machine temperature.
#GPU UTILITY FOR MAC FOR MAC OS#
The above gpu fixer also fixes the issue and all software functions 100% but a few things to be aware of. XRG is an open source system monitor for Mac OS X. There are a lot of people on the net who replaced the capacitor and it ended the problem, many people did it themselves, the cost of the capacitor is about $10. He charges a couple hundred bucks for that service but I plan to use my mbp for five more years so it will be worth it.
I’m going to send my mbp to have it replaced by the guy on that video who figured it out. If that doesn’t work then consider getting the capacitor replaced. His utility is very simple it just patches the plist of a kext file, which can be done manually. You should contact the developer through github and ask him.
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