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I advice all Mac users to be cautious when updating your drivers.

I absolutely wouldnt recommend doing this unless you know what youre doing and confident in your ability to do so (thats my disclaimer if everything goes catastrophically wrong I cannot be held responsible).

Even if youre confident about updating manually think before you do it, is it really necessary Apple optimise macOS and update the drivers themselves to deliver the most stable, safe operating environment for your Mac.

If you choose to update PLEASE understand what you are doing and how to reverse it.

This isnt happening to everyone who updates but Ive had others tell me its also happening to them.

I suspect it has to do with the automatic graphics switching in 15 MacBook Pros so you could try disabling this in System Preferences.

Turn it back on and immediately hold down the following keys CMD, Option (the Alt key), P, R.

Keep them held down until you hear the startup chime for the second time then let go.

Under the Product dropdown select one of the specific Mac ones, doesnt matter which.

Under the Operating System dropdown select which version of macOS you are using.

Note that only a few specific Mac Pros are officially supported.

At the bottom of the Release Highlights tab youll see a list of the Macs supported in beta.

If your Mac is not listed there, there will be no point in you performing this update.

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Once restarted you should see a new little NVIDIA Driver Manager icon in the menu bar.

This will prevent your Mac switching back to the Intel graphics when it needs less graphics power.

Please click on the links I have provided and choose exactly what I have listed in the drop down fields.

The download and installation went rather smoothly, and upon restarting I attempted to run NVIDIA Driver Manager.

The program froze and I gave it a few minutes before attempting to force quit.

A rather loud crackling sound began coming from the back of my iMac.

I checked to see what could be the cause and I immediately noticed my iMac was overheating.

Before I could shut it down to let it cool off, a single spark came from the back of my iMac.

I ran into the kitchen to grab our fire extinguisher and fortunately was able to put out the flames.

I contacted Apple Support and they prompted me to contact NVIDIAs support service.

I was surprised to hear from the support service that this was already a known issue with Apple products in particular, although they said it was uncommon.

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