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Q: Mountain Lion UI Lag on rMBP !!! (Let's Make this thread serious and hope for a fix)

I personally think the UI lagging bug is a serious issue on rMBP because this machine cost $2000 and up and it lags on UI features such as Mission Control and Space Switching while classic Macbook pros don't. I do understand that the retina display models carries a high resolution display, but I think the quad core CPU should have the ability to handle it (please correct me if I am wrong)

 

 

I am hoping and asking anyone experiencing the issue to follow up with this thread and post your concerns. Let's hope for a fix soon and we can really enjoy the beauty a Retina Macbook Pro brings to us.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 27, 2012 7:26 PM

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Q: Mountain Lion UI Lag on rMBP !!! (Let's Make this thread serious and hope for a fix)

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  • by orhan_m,

    orhan_m orhan_m Oct 7, 2012 2:11 AM in response to quentin DEWEZ
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    Oct 7, 2012 2:11 AM in response to quentin DEWEZ

    So guys, I got my rMBP back yesterday. There are two possibilities which could cause the lag. The graphic card or SSD. My graphic card was changed by the tecnician and unfortunatelly there is still a lag. So he assumes that the SSD must have a defect because running the macbook with an extern HDD was very smooth he said. He couldn't try my SSD because I had forgotten to give him my password for login. So I will inform you after my SSD has changed.

  • by Tigerwong,

    Tigerwong Tigerwong Oct 7, 2012 6:50 AM in response to orhan_m
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    Oct 7, 2012 6:50 AM in response to orhan_m

    will be interesting to find out that the whole issues not with the Graphic card but dodgy SSD!!!

  • by quentin DEWEZ,

    quentin DEWEZ quentin DEWEZ Oct 7, 2012 9:52 AM in response to dsciel
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    Oct 7, 2012 9:52 AM in response to dsciel

    Did you guys installed gfxCardStatus?

    I've installed it 1 hour ago and my computer seems back on track and Diablo 3 runs smooth again.

     

    I also suggest you install the latest CUDA drivers from nVidia website...

     

    A lot of people install gfxCardStatus and run a Cinebench, once with the nVidia and once with Intel.

    The people having this problem with their graphics have better results with the Intel...!

  • by orhan_m,

    orhan_m orhan_m Oct 7, 2012 10:00 AM in response to quentin DEWEZ
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    Oct 7, 2012 10:00 AM in response to quentin DEWEZ

    Yeah it seems that there is a proble with the integrated graphic card Intel. Using just the Intel card causes a lot of lags. But I mean nevertheless this shouldn't happen anyhow. The rMBP is a very strong machine which costs a lot of money. So I can expect that everything should work smooth and proparly. Apple should be able to do that.

  • by Shanjie,

    Shanjie Shanjie Oct 7, 2012 6:15 PM in response to Tigerwong
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    Oct 7, 2012 6:15 PM in response to Tigerwong

    ****, if it is.. what can we do!?

  • by David_apple,

    David_apple David_apple Oct 8, 2012 1:26 AM in response to orhan_m
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    Oct 8, 2012 1:26 AM in response to orhan_m

    Suggesting the SSD is a fault sounds bizzare to me. The graphics drivers seem most likely to be a fault (or the graphics switching).

     

    Although they do seem to be improving ever so slightly in each minor version release of Mountain Lion.

     

    As a very simple test I have been using RDM to set my resolution to 1920x1200 (HiDPI) and viewing this website (noticing the animated clouds) and then setting the resolution to 19200x1200 - the none HiDPI one - and viewing the website again. The difference is quite noticable, as well is the performance throughout OSX.

     

    But, of course I haven't paid £2500 for a retina display to run in a lower quality mode, so I end up switching back to HiDPI and suffering the lag.

     

    Im am interested to know if anyone from Apple is reading this thread at all?

  • by orhan_m,

    orhan_m orhan_m Oct 8, 2012 2:54 AM in response to David_apple
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    Oct 8, 2012 2:54 AM in response to David_apple

    So to me but let's see if this resolves our problem.

    I am also interested to know whether apple takes care about theese issues?!

    I am very disappointed about the fact that apple promises a retina display, btw which is really amazing, but may be the hardware does not fulfill the requirements to run such a resolution of a display properly.

    I hope they work on it!

  • by poidet,

    poidet poidet Oct 8, 2012 5:32 AM in response to orhan_m
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    Oct 8, 2012 5:32 AM in response to orhan_m

    somehow i'm thinking they won't fix it ever they are thinking that we are fully idiots

  • by JosArch,

    JosArch JosArch Oct 8, 2012 11:36 AM in response to poidet
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    Oct 8, 2012 11:36 AM in response to poidet

    They'll have to fix it, i'm experiencing the same lag problems, but i´m on a early 2011 15'' MBP, wich means its a software issue and there are more products affected

  • by orhan_m,

    orhan_m orhan_m Oct 8, 2012 12:04 PM in response to JosArch
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    Oct 8, 2012 12:04 PM in response to JosArch

    That's a new view. I really assumed that the lag is mainly caused by hardware issues. So could you just describe short how you experience the lag? I'm just wondering if it is almost the same as we have on our retina machines. Thanks.

  • by JosArch,

    JosArch JosArch Oct 8, 2012 12:50 PM in response to orhan_m
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    Oct 8, 2012 12:50 PM in response to orhan_m

    at first, when i installed ML it ran smoothly, but a few week later it became all the features that required animation became slightly slower, such as mission control or launchpad, the issue that bothers me is that when i open safari the computer sometimes won't respond to the gestutures, i can move the cursor, but my mac won't respond until a few seconds later like trying to catch up with the actions i triggered before, generally the lag becomes stronger while using Safari, and i've also experienced the total "block" of my mac when i opened a tab on safari, when the only solution is to reboot it manually, it has happened to me 5 times in the past three weeks, and is really anoying, i had never experienced such problems before neither on lion nor snow leopard.

  • by g.asm,

    g.asm g.asm Oct 8, 2012 5:50 PM in response to quentin DEWEZ
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    Oct 8, 2012 5:50 PM in response to quentin DEWEZ

    Has somebody made the last update (well its not a proper update, it fixes chinese on Mail app and who knows what else) but I think my computer less laggier now??

  • by ptit_filou,

    ptit_filou ptit_filou Oct 9, 2012 12:25 AM in response to g.asm
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    Oct 9, 2012 12:25 AM in response to g.asm

    I did ! But absolutely no change for me !

  • by pj737,

    pj737 pj737 Oct 9, 2012 1:18 AM in response to poidet
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    Oct 9, 2012 1:18 AM in response to poidet

    They're too busy fixing their !@#% maps.

     

    We'll be lucky to see a fix in 2012. 

  • by togaen,

    togaen togaen Oct 9, 2012 8:45 AM in response to orhan_m
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    Oct 9, 2012 8:45 AM in response to orhan_m

    Yeah, there really seems to be something wrong with integrated graphics drivers, or the way the graphics are switched. I'm on all the latest updates, and if I force it to use the GPU graphics, all animations are perfectly smooth. On the Intel chip, they are horribly laggy. Pretty shoddy for such an expensive machine.

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