Choppy/jerky UI in Mountain Lion

ok, volume control solved after reboot. but still a bit sluggish.

Try to update autocad, my friend... i seriously don't know why but i've got the same problem over here and the last autocad update solved my situation! GOOD LUCK! 🙂

Thanks so much this solved my problem!

I haven't used AutoCAD in days, yet just opening without even updating stopped all the lag.

I have a MacBook Pro late 2011, 16Gb RAM (upgrade from 8Gb). I upgraded from Snowl Leopard to Lion, and from Lion to Mountain Lion. An installation from scratch would not be feasable (I tried but I could not reinstall all my app easily) so I restore from time machiene and ru the update... but this is another story.

There is a lag between a user action (typing and moving on the mouse) and when the update get on the screen. VERY ANNOYING. I have the problem moving the windows on the screen (dragging and dropping windows), scrolling up and down and even on typing in this very window. On Lion I did not have any problem.

The problem happen ONLY on the external monitors.
I am using a Dell U2410 but I see the same problem also on a old Dell 19" (CRT).

Best,

Chris

I would be glad to do a fresh install if I can get back all my apps. When I tried there were some apps that were not registered on Launchpad (including iWork) and I am not sure where the licence # is. I tried to copy back the Apps including the Library folders and Launchpad could not detetect that the apps were already installed. I concluded that Installing from scratch and restoring the apps is not a use case for Apple.

Don't know if this is a universal issue with AutoCAD 2013 or not, but saw this issue immediately upon installing this program on a MacPro (mid 2010). The choppiness is there after either restart or power on inspite of AutoCAD being up to date. It does go away once the program is launched and shutdown again. Maybe a clean install will fix whatever AC broke.

Will post back with results

I can't freaking believe it!! I opened AutoCAD 2012 for Mac, and it fixed my problem. I was so mad about the performance I was seeing with my basically brand new iMac. Astonished, appalled, but relieved that this fixed the issue! Thank you forum!

My problem was solved by just launching and quitting AutoCAD. Weird

My isssues were fixed too by just launching AutoCAD and they have not returned even after many reboots. Weird is right.....

So there are several threads about this - and it was driving me mad. Many were related to either upgrading to ML, or rMBP. I had neither of these - but a older MBP 2008 that had been doing just fine with Lion and ML and then suddenly started having very laggy scroll.

Not sure what triggered it - but I did fix it. One or all of the following may have been the ticket

enable mirroring if you've used a second display but don't have one attached.

updated to latest flash player

uninstalled the following preference panes:

perian

menu meters

adobe flash

teleport

Rebooted and I've returned the the smooth scroll

DUDE!!!! I LOVE YOU!!! Well, I just really like you 🙂 I had the same issues and I removed the random preference panes I had, updated Flash and voila. I am back to a perky work flow. Thank you so much.

Sean

CAD Users...

I had a trial version of 2012 installed and couldn't launch it because my trial time had expired. So I installed 2013, launched it, and this issue immediately disappeared. If you have CAD on your machine you must launch it for the problem to "solve itself."

Good luck to all and thanks for the advice!

Just want to post my "solution", which eliminated jerking - even if the work around has nothing to do with CAD software.

1) Close all running user applications

2) Remove all created desktops (so that only one single desktop remains)

3) Close all trackpad extensions like jitouch or better touch

4) Reset all customized keyboard shortcuts which concern Mission Control to defaul values

5) Reboot

This workes for me, maybe for some one of you guys too.

OMG ! 😁

i was dealing with the same problem, choppy effects on translate windows, moving windows etc. i do fresh clean install cant fix the problem at all..

open autocad, all fixed..