MacBook Pro 2019 awful performance and lags

MetraNikolaev wrote:

I bought mine (2019 16inch) two years ago (top end i9 32 RAM 1TB amd5500 8 GB). But all these two years I've been noticing incredible lags on Catalina.

For example, laggy scaling of even the simplest applications (notes, messages); constant brakes and jerky animations in the system itself (while minimizing applications or scrolling safari pages on YT); my macbook awakes from sleep for 10-15 seconds (when i open the lid), and the most critical thing for me, when I am working in the Logic for 30 minutes or more (on even a light project that does not load the system at all), the loggic itself and the whole system become terribly laggy. Even using the touchpad is difficult because of animations and gestures lag. In order for these terrible lags to stop, you need to make a reboot and then everything works more or less again (not smoothly, but at least it is possible to work with). All of this happens in high-performance graphics mode (in the battery settings) and repeats both when connected to the network and without it. If I uncheck the "use high—performance graphics" menu, everything also slows down (probably because animations are processed by an integrated one and not a discrete graphics card), but you can use the computer somehow, because those terrible brakes come only when using a discrete one. Such a strange and not smooth workflow on such a mac is very sad for me. Can you guys tell me, have you ever had such problems? Do you think I have a factory defect?

P.S I've tried all the systems from catalina to sonoma. Every system was laggy and not smooth. I dropped nvram and SMC 10 or more times. I installed the system both from the harddrive and via Internet recovery. The mac does not heat up more than 70 degrees Celsius. But different visual artifacts are constantly appearing (red squares instead of the animation of opening the application or, for example, replacing a piece of wallpaper on the desktop with a black square before the reboot)

thank you so much in advance for your help.

I have this machine and never had those issue...Catalina through every macOS upgrade to my current Sonoma macOS 14.0(?)

To get a good look at your User/System config. and reveal conflicts or issues, you can download/run this trusted utility https://etrecheck.com Allow Full DIsk Access—yes

If you need help interpreting the report you can post it here in its entirety in the "Additional Text" box in the editing toolbar below, in your reply.

Can you run the user Diagnostic...not as definitive as Apple's own AST2 (Apple Service Toolkit) back bench diagnostic, but may kick out an error code.

Use Apple Diagnostics to test your Mac

Use Apple Diagnostics to test your Mac - Apple Support

MetraNikolaev wrote:

<This is etrecheck report.log>

here is my report from etracheck, can U help me understand it`/

140 Audio plug-ins that are 7 years old...?

VPN...(?)

2023-10-17 Мобильное устройство (1.0.0.0) ....(?)

Try would consider what is the issue her, all these —

2023-10-20 19:31:39 iStatistica.app Crash

Executable: /Applications/iStatistica.app

Details:

Crashing on exception: *** -[__NSArray0 objectAtIndex:]: index 0 beyon

d bounds for empty NSArray

2023-10-20 17:04:33 rekordbox.app High CPU Use (2 times)

Executable: /Applications/rekordbox.app

2023-10-20 16:53:14 Ableton Live 11 Suite.app High CPU Use (2 times)

Executable: /Applications/Ableton Live 11 Suite.app

2023-10-16 21:02:36 Vpnify.app Crash (2 times)

Executable: /Applications/Vpnify.app

Details:

/Applications/Vpnify.app/Contents/PlugIns/Vpnify.appex/Contents/MacOS/

Vpnify

To trouble shoot further you can:

 —A SafeBoot Use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies

Does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled.

Login and test. Reboot  as normal and test.  Caches get rebuilt automatically.

This test will tell you if third party interference; most* extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode. 

—Test issue in another user (or guest user) account Change Users & Groups settings on Mac - Apple Support

  This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account. 

unplug all non-essential third party peripherals when testing 

Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus

all known to cause issues on the macOS

It's amazing that Mac works at all.