After upgrading a MacBook Pro 2010 to High Sierra, the OS kept crashing randomly, making it unusable. The culprit is an NVIDIA GPU driver issue. Here’s the fix.
Steps
Step 1: Download the GPU hotfix
Download the fix from this GitHub repo:
MBPMid2010_GPUFix
Step 2: Apply the fix
Follow the steps shown in the video below:
The fix patches the NVIDIA graphics driver that causes the crashes. After applying it and restarting, the system should be stable.