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My Macbook display changes color when I open applications. It looks like there is a light blue layer over the screen, thus changing the color of my display. This layer goes away when i quit the applications.

I am facing a problem and I am not sure if its a graphic card malfunction. When I open applications like Chrome, VLC player, and most apps, my display suddenly changes color. It is as though the Theme was changed. The normal grey panel on opened windows turns to light blue and everything else seem as though there is a light blue layer on top of it. When I close these applications (quit) the display returns to its normal self.

My MacBook Pro is 2 years old, and I have an extended warranty. Will Apple replace my graphic card if it is actuall the graphic card's problem?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Aug 8, 2012 12:03 AM

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clintonfrombirmingham

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Posted on Aug 8, 2012 12:09 AM

I had that problem, too, and it's been documented both here and on the Adobe forums. What happens is that when you have dynamic switching on, when an application that uses your discrete GPU kicks in, the screen will change color. My problem lasted for a couple of weeks then just vanished.

What you need to do is download Cody Krieger's gfxCardStatus and turn off dynamic switching and leave your GPU set to discrete only. That's the only fix that I know of at this time. I don't know why it happens or why mine stopped.

Good luck,

Clinton

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n748

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Nov 10, 2013 1:45 PM in response to sandrixroma

Finally someone found a real solution to this stupid issue: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4891394?answerId=21532737022#21532737022

Simply run Onyx and have your ColorSync cache cleared.

ioshertz

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Aug 6, 2015 1:59 AM in response to philberndt

the log out - log in works great! 🙂

By the way - I had this problem from time to time also with the regular HDD - before I switched to SSD, and I used to solve it with restart, but now with the SSD is too often, but went away with the log out...

My Macbook display changes color when I open applications. It looks like there is a light blue layer over the screen, thus changing the color of my display. This layer goes away when i quit the applications.