{"id":1962,"date":"2022-10-09T13:44:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T12:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2025-07-11T18:02:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T17:02:16","slug":"diskgraph-disable-metal-in-favour-of-opengl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/diskgraph-disable-metal-in-favour-of-opengl\/","title":{"rendered":"Disable Metal in favour of OpenGL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On newer Macs, Metal is the preferred technology for drawing the graph. On some older Macs, in particular if you&#8217;re using a patch for a macOS version that is not officially supported by your device, Metal could cause drawing issues, in which case using the older OpenGL technology is preferred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Disable Metal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Open the Terminal (in <code>\/Applications\/Utilities<\/code>), copy and paste the following line:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>defaults write org.desairem.Disk-Graph disableMetal true<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>and press Enter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re using Disk Graph Lite, use the following instead:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>defaults write org.desairem.Disk-GraphLite disableMetal true<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Enable Metal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To enable Metal again, use the following line:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>defaults delete org.desairem.Disk-Graph disableMetal<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re using Disk Graph Lite, use the following instead:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>defaults delete org.desairem.Disk-GraphLite disableMetal<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On newer Macs, Metal is the preferred technology for drawing the graph. On some older Macs, in particular if you&#8217;re using a patch for a macOS version that is not officially supported by your device, Metal could cause drawing issues, in which case using the older OpenGL technology is preferred. Disable Metal Open the Terminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"wp-custom-template-disk-graph-help-post","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diskgraph-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4759,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions\/4759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}