Screen Flickering while scrolling after update to Mavericks.

Worked for me. Really weird fix to a really weird glitch.

i installed AutoCad 2014 and it instantly went away!

Quite surprisingly, this worked for me too!

I didn't even need to fully-install (i.e., activate) AutoCAD 2014.

In fact, I installed it as a trial and then I uninstalled it.

Apparently, all the flickering problems that I had (both in the Dock and in any other application like Safari) disappeared!

Also, I've to say that I started Xcode 5 for the first time after upgrading to Mavericks and it downloaded/installed some upgrades (i.e., maybe some graphics lib?!?) it required (I run Xcode while trying to fully-activate AutoCAD...).

So my final guess of this story is that an "obsolete" Xcode might be the reason of our flickering issues.

Just to give it a try, simply update Xcode *before* even trying to install AutoCAD and see what happens. If this will solve the problem then you won't even need to install AutoCAD!

Thanks to everyone 🙂

Hi Gabriele,

Wanted to thank you for your solution -- so far, it seems to have worked!!!! -- and all I did was to install the current version of Xcode (I didn't have any previous version). My guess would be that doing this overwrites some flawed bits of code somewhere in the graphical interface!! 🙂

Really happy this worked also for you! 🙂

Having the same problem. Worst with Chrome and Photoshop/Illustrator

Posted Here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5529599

Video Here: http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=axe05l&s=5#.UnlxuZTWy8E

Thanks, it works for me too... 🙂

Will apple buy me a copy of Autocad in order to resolve the issue they created?

Well Andy, actually you don't need the licensed version of AutoCAD!

In fact, the free-trial version is enough ;)

Cheers

I understand Andy's frustration. This is not really a good fix, (although it somewhat worked for me as well). Every time the issue recurs I have to mess around with autocad for a bit. This issue has been going on for a long time and osx updates have not solved anything yet.

On a side note, does anybody think that autocad causes the problem in the first place? I had autocad installed before the screen flickering mavericks update.

I let me rephrase that and be more positive. It's a great that some fix exists and people shared it here.

update: I had the same problem for about three months, from the day that I installed mavericks on my 1st gen 15" rMBP. IT moved my harddrive into three different computers and the graphics card issue pursued, meaning it was a software corruption, not a hardware issue. Ultimately: they backed up my data, wiped the entire computer blank and rebuilt it from scratch (i.e. reinstalled Mavericks after wiping any corrupted user profile settings) then loaded my files back onto the computer. Since then, I have not had any issues with the screen flickering or producing strange artifacts in arbitrary places. Installing Autocad wasn't strong enough to fix the issue.

Good luck!

Meh.....I sold my Mac and built a new Windows 8.1 PC.....fixed the issue for me 🙂

Weird. I've tried everything, and nothing worked.
I opened AutoCAD, and the problem was gone. 😕

I had very similar issues, especially when connecting/disconnecting external displays.

Try disabling Automatic graphics switching (System Preferences --> Energy Saver --> Uncheck the box). This solved it for me - no Autocad needed! 😀

Hope this helps.

hi recently i downloaded autocad 2014 full version on my macbook. after installing it my screen started flickering very badly

any one can help me from this situation??