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Q: Macbook Pro screen becomes blue every time a discrete graphics card is used!

The screen color of my 2011 17" Macbook Pro changes to blue-ish every time the discrete graphics card is used! That started to happen only after I upgraded to OS Mountain Lion!

 

Whenever I open any app that use Discrete graphics card by default, the screen becomes blue and looks terrible.. Applications include, VLC, Chrome (20.0) and I guess quite a few others!

 

So now efectively my Macbook Pro has just one usable video-card - the buit in one, because the discrete card (AMD Radeon HD 6750M) is not usable!

 

Here's some other forums set up about this problem, so it's not just me:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1401741

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1392978

 

***..!? Apple, please fix this ASAP!!!

MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2011), OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 27, 2012 8:35 AM

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  • by paul8,

    paul8 paul8 Sep 18, 2012 8:54 AM in response to grapii
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    Sep 18, 2012 8:54 AM in response to grapii

    1. Developer intuition.

     

    2. Yup, indeed. Programs > Utilities > System Information. After its window opens (might take a while) go to Hardware > Graphics/Displays. Now you can check whether your screen is "attached" to the Intel HD chip or the graphic card (GeForce GT 330M).

     

    To check whether it's working properly do the following: Close everything. Open the System Information and check for the integrated chip. Open iPhoto/Chrome/etc and check again (be sure to either close and re-open the System Information or to press ⌘R before checking again).

  • by grapii,

    grapii grapii Sep 18, 2012 9:22 AM in response to paul8
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    Sep 18, 2012 9:22 AM in response to paul8

    Absolute genius!! Thank you so much! 

  • by grapii,

    grapii grapii Sep 20, 2012 12:30 AM in response to paul8
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    Sep 20, 2012 12:30 AM in response to paul8

    Spoke too soon.  Blue tint of death is back.  It was all ok whilst restarting or putting the laptop to sleep, but as soon as I shut down the machine and started it back up the blue tint came back as usual.  Again loggin off and loggin on works, but it's a workaround and not a permenant fix.

  • by peppolone1,

    peppolone1 peppolone1 Sep 28, 2012 10:53 AM in response to grapii
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    Sep 28, 2012 10:53 AM in response to grapii

    i created a new profile and there isn't the issue, then i see in this profile there isn't the ColorSync folder.

    so i back to my original profile and i remove the ~/Library/ColorSync folder, restart and i fixed.

    sorry for my english.

  • by grapii,

    grapii grapii Oct 16, 2012 5:59 AM in response to peppolone1
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    Oct 16, 2012 5:59 AM in response to peppolone1

    Deleted the ~/Library/ColorSync folder, but didn't fix it for me, still got the blue tint

  • by sqtcnt,

    sqtcnt sqtcnt Oct 25, 2012 8:30 AM in response to mrtsk
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    Oct 25, 2012 8:30 AM in response to mrtsk

    I'm on 10.8.2 for some time now. Haven't had this issue before. But yesterday when I tried to shutdown, my macbook pro got stuck on the shutdown screen. I held the power button to shut it down. Then today I'm having this blue screen issue. Not sure if they are related though... It happens with iFinance at first then goes away. Now it happens with VLC and won't go away...

     

    Getting my hand on the gfxCardStatus right now, but definitely hope for a real fix SOON!!!

  • by AlbBre,

    AlbBre AlbBre Oct 25, 2012 1:50 PM in response to mrtsk
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    Oct 25, 2012 1:50 PM in response to mrtsk

    here the solution:

     

    Last Driver download:#

     

    http://www.nvidia.de/object/cuda-mac-driver-de.html

     

    important !!!!

     

    To run CUDA applications, it is necessary to uncheck the Automatic Graphics Switching checkbox in the Energy Saver panel of the System Preferences.

     

    then sign off or reboot

     

    to check use the solution download gfxcardstatus

     

    --> no more blue!!! :-)))))

     

    Regards

    Alberto

     


  • by psu1989,

    psu1989 psu1989 Oct 27, 2012 4:58 AM in response to AlbBre
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    Oct 27, 2012 4:58 AM in response to AlbBre

    This seems to have resolved my issue:

     

     

    AlbBre wrote:

     

    To run CUDA applications, it is necessary to uncheck the Automatic Graphics Switching checkbox in the Energy Saver panel of the System Preferences.

     

    Alberto

     


  • by FlaY ,

    FlaY FlaY Oct 28, 2012 9:36 PM in response to mrtsk
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    Oct 28, 2012 9:36 PM in response to mrtsk

    When switching between two users is constantly blue screen! Picture desktop goes away and need it all the time to turn on again! :(

    10.8.2

     

    PS Imac same, blue screen

  • by pennbank,

    pennbank pennbank Oct 28, 2012 11:09 PM in response to FlaY
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    Oct 28, 2012 11:09 PM in response to FlaY

    I had blue screen when using Facetime and tracked it down to the update with adobe Adobe Flash Player which recently had an update.

     

    I deleted Flash Player and reinstalled it and it solved my Blue Screen

     

    http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/installation-problems-flash-player-mac.ht ml

  • by AlbBre,

    AlbBre AlbBre Oct 29, 2012 11:31 AM in response to FlaY
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    Oct 29, 2012 11:31 AM in response to FlaY

    Hi.

    I had a "date" today with an expert ;-) in an official apple store (CentrO Oberhausen in Germany). After 1 Hours discussion, he told me that this issue is new... and not known (also in the Apple "system"). 

     

    My personal solution is to deactivate the internal graficcard (as described above) without gfxcardstatus, because this programm has also a changeover feature.

     

    Furtherfore the CUDA driver is made for this issue:

     

    page description: (NVIDIA)

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    • There is a known issue in this release where CUDA applications will not automatically engage the discrete GPU on 2012 MacBook Pro models with automatic graphics switching. To run CUDA applications, it is necessary to uncheck the Automatic Graphics Switching checkbox in the Energy Saver pane of the System Preferences.

    --------------------------------

    sounds suspect ;-)

     

    At the end of my "apple date" the genius bar expert had an internal discussion and he told me that this issue is still known ;-) and the apple engineers are working on that (maybe a firmware update will come)....

    Who will believe can believe.... I think he had no more ideas.

     

    So I think we will had to wait and I strictly recommend to uncheck the Automatic Graphics Switching checkbox in the Energy Saver panel of the System Preferences.... I don´t think that the battery will be faster empty.

     

    Regards

    Alberto


  • by Bob Gustafson,

    Bob Gustafson Bob Gustafson Nov 5, 2012 2:23 PM in response to mrtsk
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    Nov 5, 2012 2:23 PM in response to mrtsk

    Well I know I mentioned a long time ago that this was fixed for me in a ML update, but it was never fixed afterall.  In fact, now it's worse than ever.  The blue haze over the screen is even more intense and I can barlely use my MBP on Integrated graphics only.  I can't even type text without it glitching.  This is so dumb.

  • by Steven W. Riggins,

    Steven W. Riggins Steven W. Riggins Nov 8, 2012 2:02 PM in response to mrtsk
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    Nov 8, 2012 2:02 PM in response to mrtsk

    I've been dealing with this issue in a Early 2011 MacBook Pro for a few weeks.  It just *started* happening, even under 10.8.2.

     

    The logout/login trick works, but is not optimal.  I also have FileVault 2 on.

     

    Today on a lark, I reset my SMC, and upon restart, the colors are correct.  I don't know if this will hold or not, but I'll keep people posted.

     

    Resetting SMC: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

     

    Edit: Ok, it did not stick through as shutdown/restart

     

    Message was edited by: Steven W. Riggins

  • by EEaudio08,

    EEaudio08 EEaudio08 Nov 10, 2012 10:44 AM in response to mrtsk
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    Nov 10, 2012 10:44 AM in response to mrtsk

    I'm having the same issue.  I have a 17" MacBook Pro 8,3 with a 2.3GHz i7, and an AMD Radeon HD 6750M discrete graphics card.  I'm on 10.8.2.  Any time I open iPhoto, iMovie, Photoshop, etc, the screen adds a blue tint.

     

    I don't have any solutions, just wanted to add my stats to the list.

  • by Steven W. Riggins,

    Steven W. Riggins Steven W. Riggins Nov 17, 2012 12:26 AM in response to EEaudio08
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    Nov 17, 2012 12:26 AM in response to EEaudio08

    I have figured out my issue - FileVault 2.  I had suspicions after going back and looking at what I had changed recently, and turning on FileVault 2 was one of them.  I turned it off, rebooted, and the blue tint issue was gone.  I shutdown, rebooted, no blue tint.

     

    So the theory that the color profiles are not gettig set up properly seems correct, and may be triggered by several things.  I have a Samsung M830 SSD in this 2011 macbook pro, and the color is fine without FileVault 2 enabled.

     

    Once it is fully disabled (about 3 hours it says) I will turn it back on and test again.

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