Performance reduced under Bootcamp after EFI update on Macbook Pro Retina

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Performance reduced under Bootcamp after EFI update on Macbook Pro Retina

after i upgraded EFI on my retina macbook pro the proformence reduced to unusable. under heavy load under bootcamp windows7. the cpu clock drops and as well as cpu clock. this is the screen shot of gpu clock monitoring from windows u can see the gpu clock is running at 270Mhz at most of the time and trying to be back to 725Mhz(yea, not 900Mhz!) when im running a graphic benchmark at same time cpu will run about 1.1Ghz as well. i noticed that it will run 10-20sec normally then CPU and GPU clock will start dropping. It's almost like speedstep is programmed backwards. My CPU is constantly running at 3.1-3.2GHz, and then as soon as a game loads, it drops to 1.2GHz. I've lost track of how many times I reset the SMC reseting SMC PRAM, reinstalling windows using Bootcamp or even erease the entire drive and start over from network recovery MacOS did not solve this problem. so all the recent games like COD MW3, Starcraft II, BF3,or D3 will only run about about 10 fps as i was playing them with no ploblem before the EFI update.

this is killing me! please help.

im in NY, in this season i dont think is the overheating problem. when i check the temperature, it stays about 80C (fans will run about 4k rpm). but some time heavy loaded Mac OS cpu is about 90 degree but only with 3k rpm fan kicked in.

i did search online, seems that some other people have the same problem with rMBP or MBA 2012.

anyone knows if i take my macbook pro to the store, will those people work at genuines bar help me with this "windows" problem?

thanks!

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Sep 26, 2012 9:06 PM

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Sep 26, 2012 10:50 PM in response to ShinJi900715

I am having the exact same issue. I went from incredible performance to absolutely awful FPS and performance. I tried reinstalling all my drivers and nothing. Help on this would be greatly appreciated.

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R3P1N5

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Sep 27, 2012 7:08 AM in response to ShinJi900715

Having the same issue, Hoping this will be solved promptly ... I have a LAN to go to this weekend and low framerates will get me killed, in more ways than one. Not to mention I have a good slab of Dark Souls I'd like to play at above 15fps.

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R3P1N5

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Sep 27, 2012 8:13 AM in response to R3P1N5

I just reset my SMC (System Managment Controller), booted and it appears to have solved the issue. Hope you find a solution that works for you soon. For those out there having the same problem, here's a link to instructions on how to reset your SMC http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964

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Sep 27, 2012 11:04 AM in response to R3P1N5

Oddly enough, last night when I reset the PRAM and SMC and it was still doing it, however when I reset both this morning it cured it like you mentioned.

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Sep 27, 2012 6:44 PM in response to Kenny Wilson

so you guys all running the test under Bootcamp? i know reseting SMC will fix the fps problem for Mac OS, but not windows, at least not for me. 😟

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R3P1N5

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Oct 1, 2012 6:43 AM in response to ShinJi900715

Hi ShinJi900715, sorry for the delay in response, hopefully your problem has been fixed before I type this, I only reset the SMC, not the PRAM and It cured all issues in Bootcamp'd Windows. I did not notice any issues in OSX.

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Oct 1, 2012 10:03 AM in response to R3P1N5

Thank you every one who remind me to reset the SMC. as i said reseting SMC is not helping me. however, i just found out by reseting SMC it will only work once(CPU continuously running about 2.0-3.3Ghz) until i attach the Thunderbolt Drive or a USB3.0 harddrive. as most of my games was saved and playable from my external harddrive, reseting SMC will not help that much. im having 256GB ssd as my game library is about 1TB. i believe this is a bug of the newest EFI update. im having no troubles was so ever before i update this EFI.

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Nov 4, 2012 9:15 AM in response to ShinJi900715

Hey shink take a look in my answer in Re: Performance reduced after EFI update on Macbook Pro Retina .

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Nov 4, 2012 11:14 AM in response to ShinJi900715

SMC resets DO NOT resolve this problem. Hopefully as rMBP owners start noticing and reporting this, Apple will start to take the claims seriously. The throttle is waaay too aggressive.

Otherwise its a wonderful non-gaming laptop 😀

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Nov 4, 2012 12:14 PM in response to ShinJi900715

Hey Shadowyani, please take a time and fill a bug report at http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/ . The machine is useless for me as it is now because I develop and use very GPU/CPU demanding scientific applications, after the update my realtime applications are completely useless as they drop from something like 25fps to 9 fps even on Mac OS X (no SMC reset fixed the issue). In bootcamp the situation is worse, my software runs at 4 fps and gaming turns to be impossible to play as well.

Please let Apple know about the problem, fill a bug report, even if SMC reset once in a while fixed the issue for you (this is not a common behaviour and must be fixed). We paid the price for cutting edge technology.

Apple shall not do a downgrade of the system after few weeks, remember that most of reviews and benchmarks were done BEFORE the EFI Update, so people are being fooled by Apple in this sense.

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reery

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Nov 5, 2012 3:49 AM in response to Filipi Nascimento

Have this issue as well, but my thread has been left unresponded.

Reseting SMC helps temporarily until the next boot or wake up.

It all started after the 10.8.2 update.

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Nov 8, 2012 12:26 PM in response to Filipi Nascimento

Absolutely. Fortunately the work I do on my laptop doesn't push the GPU but for you gamers and certain power users out there, this is a large shortcoming on the rMBP. I'll definitely put in a bug report; its so easy to reproduce the problem anyways...just game it up haha

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Nov 13, 2012 8:37 PM in response to ShinJi900715

Hey, Apple Insider just published a article about the problem, lets hope Apple deliver us a fix soon.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/11/13/some-15-retina-macbook-pro-users-compl ain-of-graphics-issues-after-efi-update

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Nov 15, 2012 11:16 AM in response to Filipi Nascimento

Yay I knew I wasn't crazy! 🙂

Here's to hoping the patch wipes away all that buyer's remorse!

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Nov 18, 2012 10:22 AM in response to shadowyani

I got the problem, too. I hope apple is taking this seriously and is working on a solution right now! This "update" really breaks the mbp pro for me as a gamer. The decrease of fps in games on windows is about 60-80%.

Right now i have a computer i paid 2,400€ for, with the speed of a 100€ second hand laptop. 😠

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