Since installing OS X Mavericks on my Mid-2010 Macbook Pro, occasionally there is distortion on the display- lots of coloured lines

Irish Floyd wrote:

Same problem. I have a 15-inch, Mid 2010 2.66 GHz i7 with Intel HD Graphixs 288 MB.

Seems like this would be an unhappy coincidence if all of our graphics cards went out at the same time immediately folloing installation of Mavericks.

The only coincidence is the known faulty GPU installed on the Mid 2010 15" Macbook Pro. Lion, Mountain Lion, and now Mavericks drives your GPU much harder, causing the fault to appear.

Same computer, same issue here. I think my computer is on bath salts... afraid to sleep at night.

I also have a MacBook Pro Mid 2010 Intel Core i5 2.53 GHz running Mavericks.

This problem occured after updating to Mavericks. It did not occur with Mountain Lion.

In addition to the same lines, I also see the desktop icons distort. By changing the Display resolution in Preferences it goes away temporarily.

I ran the AHT and took mine into the store I bought it at and none of the tests showed it as a hardware problem,

however, danthemanuk wrote here https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5492753?answerId=23917507022#23917507022 about this:

http://9to5mac.com/2013/11/15/apple-seeds-first-os-x-mavericks-10-9-1-beta-to-de velopers-with-focuses-on-mail-graphics/

Hi,

I have a MacBook Pro i7 (2010) with the HiDepth display. I had the exact same issue since installing Mavericks (never had it before). It got worse over time, it seemed. I found that this here instantly solved my problem: Force to use the discrete graphics card.

1. Download gfxCardStatus tool: http://gfx.io

2. Run it and switch to "Discrete only".

The problem went away instantly. The downside of this is that it will drain the battery faster.

Hope this helps you as well!

It's not TS4088 - I had that issue with my macbook (2010 15") and Apple replaced the system board. This is definitely something with mavericks and intel graphics.

I have the same problem.

Yes, it is not a hardware thing it is more software related (OS X Mavericks) and it really needs a fix. It normally crashes your system when there's transition between the integrated to the discrete graphic card. Here's the fix: Download "gfxCardStatus" and every time before you start any app set it to Discrete Only and that should keep you going till up come up with a better solution. I hope it will hope you as it really worked for me.

I've got the same Problem with horizontal and vertical artifacts.

MBP Mid 2010 17" (1920 x 1200)

Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 288 MB

Problem occurs since Mavericks update.

Specially after starting out of standby.

A temporary solution that worked for me 10 minutes ago, was changing the resolution, to a lower and switching back instantly.

YES I AM HAVING THIS PROBLEM...and now it has become totally unusable.This is exactly how mine started, only to worsen.

mid 2012 17" macbook pro

What seems to be a longer working fix of that issue is:

go to the safe energies tab in system settings and disable this "switch between graphic modes" settings.

that worked fine for me since three days now... but battery time is reduced drastically.

It has started after installing Mavericks, the exact same problem.

Than I have done the same as mentioned iMod86 and the issue disappeared inmediately.

Same exact problem after installing Mavericks - particularly bad when I'm flicking between detailed pictures. Fix?????

I am just tired that apple think we are stupid.

Since 2000 I have had 10 different apple products and never had this software issue. I think apple is limiting the hardware with their software and that they want you to replace a U$ 2300 of 3 years of use for a new one.

I have decided that I will burn my mbp 2010 because is useless even though it is still new.

I see my friends working on old windows computers faster than I do in my mbp and I don't like that, its so embarrassing.

I think I will buy a Surface pro 2 of 256 GB, any comments about it?

It worked for me. The graphic problem went away.

The computer is not so slow now, but the performance still not what it was.

I hope apple think in their real customers and solve this issue that is causing we want to turn to windows OS.