Mavericks - Choppy Scrolling - Mac Mini 2012 - Philips Monitor - DVI over HDMI

The scrolling is also choppy on my side, especially in Google Chrome. Also, the scrolling stop working on my magic mouse and my macbook trackpad in some application. Closing and re-opening the app make the scrolling work again but that's annoying.

I was expecting a bit more stability for this release.

Absolutely extraordinarily, fired up AutoCAD 2013 and now choppy scrolling in Safari etc gone away.

can someone tell me how to do this? When im in th launchpad scrolling is extremely choppy.

Is anyone else having any problems with video, system animations, or general scrolling choppiness everywhere, now with the Mavericks upgrade?

Yes, I am. Had a nicely running Mountain Lion on my late 2009 Mac Mini. Installed Mavericks, and now experience inexplicable delays in responding to new clicks, change of focus, etc. When I try to switch among apps, I have to wait 2 - 5 minutes for my mouse clicks to become functional again. Tried to search for a program in the app store, and couldn't get the search box to even let me enter text. System has not crashed. Once in a single program, once it has time to start, things seem to work. I don't see the spinning ball, but should.

Doing anything takes 4x as long now. ??? Or longer.

Mike

My Mac Mini:

Processor 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

Memory 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256 MB

Software OS X 10.9 (13A603)

I had the exact same scrolling issues as the OP after my initial upgrade, which was most noticeable in Safari. I actually went to the extent of doing a fresh install, and all was fine and good most of the morning, until the problem resurfaced.

Sure enough, opening AutoCAD does the trick. Hopefully they fix this ASAP, should not need to have a workaround for something that worked just fine before!

Just thought I'd add: I also updated to Mavericks on a MB Air. Everything went fine there, so far. No issues, as on my Mini.

Mike

Is anyone else having any problems with video, system animations, or general scrolling choppiness everywhere, now with the Mavericks upgrade?

Yes, I am. Had a nicely running Mountain Lion on my late 2009 Mac Mini. Installed Mavericks, and now experience inexplicable delays in responding to new clicks, change of focus, etc. When I try to switch among apps, I have to wait 2 - 5 minutes for my mouse clicks to become functional again.

Mike

My Mac Mini:

Processor 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

Memory 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256 MB

Software OS X 10.9 (13A603)

I have the same problem in Safari and Mail on my MacBook Pro 15" 2,66 GHz from 2010.

How to solve that?

I don't have AutoCAD 😟 I wish there was another way to fix it.

This is extremely strange, but thank you for it, I would never have thought of it myself.

I found this thread by searching for "jittering graphics Macbook Pro Mavericks" - I was prompted to do the search when I arrived home from work and restarted my MBP after a day of working on - you guessed it - Autocad (2014 for Mac). I shut the MBP down before heading home. When I restarted at home, my Dock hide/unhide animation was very jerky. Also had problems joining my home wifi network.

I just opened a drawing in Autocad and closed it immediately. Graphics problem gone. Wifi problem gone.

???

It appears the chrome cannot composite/render the pages fast enough with the integrated intel graphic GPU.

If you force the NVIDIA GPU (for example by running the Autocad or VLC or other apps that require the

dedicated GPU) the scrolling will be fast. You can also install gfxCardStatus app and manually switch between

the dedicated and integrated GPU.

Jiri

So I went back to mountain lion after some extreme choppiness from Mavericks. After I saw Autocad 2014 could fix the problem of chopiness in launchpad. I downloaded it...... and it didnt work.

here are my Etrecheck credentials

Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,1
1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4 cores
4 GB RAM

Video Information:
Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: 1024 MB
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M - VRAM: 512 MB

Audio Plug-ins:
BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0
AirPlay: Version: 1.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3

System Software:
OS X 10.9 (13A603) - Uptime: 0 days 0:7:55

Disk Information:
APPLE HDD TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF disk0 : (500.11 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 349.29 GB (95.48 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
BOOTCAMP (disk0s4) /Volumes/BOOTCAMP: 149.83 GB (121.08 GB free)

HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS31N

USB Information:

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

FireWire Information:

Thunderbolt Information:
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

Kernel Extensions:

Problem System Launch Daemons:

Problem System Launch Agents:

Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
[loaded] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist

Launch Agents:
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
[loaded] com.hp.messagecenter.launcher.plist

User Launch Agents:
[loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist
[loaded] uk.co.markallan.clamxav.clamscan.plist
[loaded] uk.co.markallan.clamxav.freshclam.plist

User Login Items:
iTunesHelper
Dropbox
Mail
SpeechSynthesisServer
Autodesk 360

3rd Party Preference Panes:
Flash Player
Flip4Mac WMV
Perian

Internet Plug-ins:
AdobePDFViewer.plugin
Default Browser.plugin
Flash Player.plugin
FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin
JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin
Silverlight.plugin

User Internet Plug-ins:

Bad Fonts:
None

Time Machine:
Mobile backups: ON
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 349.29 GB Disk used: 253.8 GB
Destinations:
Tre's Drive [Local] (Last used)
Total size: 499.43 GB
Total number of backups: 1
Oldest backup: 2013-05-12 07:03:51 +0000
Last backup: 2013-05-12 07:03:51 +0000
Size of backup disk: Too small
Backup size 499.43 GB < (Disk used 253.8 GB X 3)
Time Machine details may not be accurate.
All volumes being backed up may not be listed.

Top Processes by CPU:
3% WindowServer
2% EtreCheck
2% hidd
0% fontd
0% mtmd
0% Dropbox
0% mds_stores
0% mds
0% aosnotifyd

Top Processes by Memory:
250 MB firefox
180 MB mds_stores
123 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent
74 MB Dropbox
61 MB WindowServer
53 MB Finder
53 MB Mail
41 MB Dock
37 MB Autodesk 360
37 MB CVMCompiler

Virtual Memory Statistics:
1.59 GB Free RAM
1.48 GB Active RAM
360 MB Inactive RAM
589 MB Wired RAM
827 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outs

Perhaps useful to some here, I was still having choppy scrolling but only in Outlook for Mac 2011 when scrolling message contents (on a 2011 MacBook Air).

Interestingly, the scrolling of the list of messages was smooth, but scrolling the message contents with the trackpad was choppy. Even more interesting, the scroll bar moves smoothly even though the message contents moved in a choppy way, and if I grabbed the scroll bar and scrolled with that then it was smooth.

But I found another post with the answer. (Choppy scrolling in Outlook 2011 since Mavericks)

Going to System Preferences / General and changing "Show scroll bars" to Always did the trick. -Mark

2 weeks ago I had this very same problem.. I had posted the below message on another forum but got no reply, would you be so kind as to enlighten me a little..

only a week after installing Mavericks, after using Photoshop CS6, AutoCAD 2013 and SketchUp Sage simultaneously for 2 days straight (due to an Architectural Project deadline I have) did I encounter this problem. The following morning I turned on my Mac and everything was chopping up. I panicked and made a System Recovery of my iMac. It didn't' occur to me to try running any high RAM intensive programs.. I did not try to open AutoCAD 2013. Now that I have OSX 10.7.5 Installed again, it's smooth again.

I wanted to ask.. Did the AutoCAD 2013 fix work for that particular time of use, or is it a permanent fix? Moreover.. do you have to stay opening AutoCAD 2013 everytime you reboot in order to avoid this lag?

Because, if so, I doubt I'll be reinstalling Mavericks again anytime soon. 😟

Thanks.

AutoCAD isn't a permanent fix for me. I have to do the AutoCAD magical launch/openfile/quit after each reboot, otherwise Dock unhide & magnification graphics operations are so jerky the Dock is nearly unusable. Looking forward to a fix for this and finding out the cause.