10.8.3 Forcing Discrete Graphics With Dropbox and others

Dropbox have, now, released a new stable build, 2.0.4, that incorporates the fix for the graphics problem. That's one app fixed. 🙂

And, yes, mercer77. Apple's own software has problems, too. You may have noticed that Dictation forces the discrete GPU, too. All we can do is bug Apple about it. Maybe they'll get on the ball...

Just filed another bug report.. let's see if things will get fixed. I went back to 10.8.2 so everything keeps working without problems. Maybe i'll bring my MBP to a service point to see if my logic board is crappy..

Did anyone check if this problem still occurs in the new 10.8.4 beta version?

I did. Latest seed, problem intact.

Also tried the seed that was released yesterday. Exact same issue. Don't think apple is going for a fix in 10.8.4, it's been three builds so far with the same issue

this information isn't so good. I hope Apple will change that...

New 10.8.4 seed, same issue.... (12E36)

Latest seed (12E40)-

Only ONE improvement so far: Tweetbot doesn't trigger Discrete Graphics anymore. Others, like Growl and Skype, still do.

At least there is some improvements..

Seed released today (12E47):

Even less apps are triggering the Discrete graphics now! Growl doesn't do it anymore, but Skype still does it on launch.

That means Apple is in the process of fixing it!

Good thing growl does not trigger it. As for Skype it is pretty normal and logic to trigger the nvidia card as it uses the isight camera

Growl 2.0.1 continues to use discrete graphics on my Mid 2010 15" MBPro. Growl is configured to show in the menu bar. What is your configuration?

narciszait wrote:

Good thing growl does not trigger it. As for Skype it is pretty normal and logic to trigger the nvidia card as it uses the isight camera

It's not that simple. Both FaceTime and Messages use the iSight, yet only Messages switches to the discrete GPU when you videochat.

A little birdy told me that Dictation now runs on the integrated GPU as well.

I am happy they listened.

I had to take advantage of Apple nice treatment for Apple Care customers and make sure a senior advisor knows about this issue in 10.8.3. He also asked me to collect some logs and information so he can forward them to the engineering department. Let's hope the final 10.8.4 puts an end to this issue.

That was very wise of you to contact Apple Care about this issue! Thank you!

The last two seeds introduced absolutely zero improvements to this issue. Apps like Skype and Keynote still trigger discrete graphics on launch.... This is disappointing.