I have 10.12.5 Beta (16F71b) installed and it's not working well for me- no display at all (just black screen) on my DisplayLink monitor. If I roll my mouse onto it, that does show but no desktop background and dragging a window there just makes it disappear.

edit: I am on the final 10.12.5 now (16F73) and my DL connected display works again. Mystery.

Here is a datapoint that might help others:

2014 rMBP with discrete video card will cause the scrambled screen issue 100% of the time when the discrete video card is being used. I can monitor this in the energy section of activity monitor. Launching certain applications requires "High Perf GPU".

I can also replicate the issue 100% of the time when I disable "automatic graphic switching".

Co-workers with 2015 rMBP is able to use discrete video card without any issues. Other users with 2015 rMBP and no discrete video card never experience the issue.

Hope this helps others...

This was posted a month ago and there have been no updates. Mine doesn't work AT ALL with my macbook pro, whereas it used to. I say, either update the driver appropriately, show me how to make it work, or send me my money back... Because this is infuriating, and the product isn't maintaining the standards for and specifications for which it was purchased. I'd really rather write a glowing thank you than a condemning review...

I have a Macbook Pro 13" middle of 2012, and I am still running 10.12.3 which works very well. Does anyone have experience with this setup running 10.12.4?

I don't understand how every single release can mess up so much... Apple seems to be remaking driver code all the time, breaking compatibility to everything you have connected.

Working with 10.12.5??
 

So, has anyone with the issues in this thread upgraded to 10.12.5 yet to see if Apple's bug that is causing this has been resolved yet? I'm still keeping my machine at 10.12.3 just to keep my monitors working.

I'm on 10.12.5 and it was working Ok for me. I see DL 3.1 was released yesterday I have't tried yet but that should be even better.

I've updated to Sierra 10.12.5 as well as v3.1 of the DL driver and I'm still having the same issue with the scrambled screen.

MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012)
2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB
Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB

so this is interesting, i updated to 12.5, and it worked... ...for about half a day... now i'm back at scrambled screens...

not sure what caused it, might have been locking the screen or google chrome running some stuff fullscreen... but nevertheless it is back, and rebooting doesn't help..


mbp same as kbmcguire

Thank you for the updates.

Despite much insistence, we have not heard from Apple recently about this issue, we probably need to see what happens at WWDC.
On both systems we have that can reproduce this issue we're now pretty stable with the issue reproducing reliably when GPU switching is enabled and not reproducing with it disabled.

I'd still recommend trying a SMC reset to bring the system to this deterministic state. Most likely it needs to be performed while GPU switching is enabled, but it's difficult to confirm as we can't get into the previous state.

This is all we have at the moment, I'm afraid it's not much and I can understand your frustration as I'm using an affected system myself.

Kind regards,
Carlo