
But things broke loose in 10.13.5 in June of 2018 when I not only got graphics lockups several times a day, but also experienced frequent kernel panics. I started avoiding the screensaver and simply relied on Apple Menu > Lock Screen. Random Lockups Still Plague macOS Sierra and High Sierra El Capitan was the current OS, and we Mac Pro owners were pretty much helpless. But a lingering, well-known problem with the screensaver app persisted. In High Sierra, graphics lockups were generally a thing of the past.

I wrote: “ 2013 Mac Pro GPU Freezes Appear to be Fixed by macOS Sierra.” With Sierra, I was getting uptimes of several weeks. “ 2013 Mac Pro Freezes Continue – Owners Have Little Recourse – Apple is Helpless.”īy November of 2016, macOS Sierra has shipped. Sadly, that wasn’t the case with Yosemite and El Capitan.


In Unix palance, “Uptime” was great, and the only time a UNIX OS should have to be rebooted is when the system is updated. Everything was perfect in terms of OS stability. As a refresher, my 2013 Mac Pro shipped with macOS Mavericks.
