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

I have the same issue. After taking it to the apple service centre, initial response was to me was that it looks like a hardware issue. And as suspected they came back to me reporting that my logic board needed replacement. It's very surprising that the logic board is gone for a toss in less that 2 years. Unfortunately I do not have extended warranty. The cost of replacement is as good as buying a new MBP. I have shown the various discussions like the above to the concerned team and even highlighted the same to the India call support team. However to no avail. Does anyone know how to work around this? Or does apple even recognize this problem in the first place? I've been a long time user of apple and never expected this to happen. Please provide solutions if any. Thanks

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.

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I read this disscusion and i want to give you my point of view. To solve go to energy options and choose not changing grafics card. So the problem are in intel card and drivers for Mavericks. On october apple store change me the motherboard because in some macbooks 2010 there are a problem in Ndiva Card. So with this new motherboard on my notebook i dont belive its another hardware problem, sooo please move on and get the fix for MAVERICKs

I have been having exactly the same problem with my MacBook Pro (Late 2010 mdel), despite the most recent Mavericks updates. This obviously something that Apple will have to resove.

I'm at a Genius bar now, nobody seems to have ever seen this:

And it only started AFTER I updated to Maverick. I have another friend with the exact same problem.

Looks like there may be a solution. Check out Pehtis's post on the second page of this thread:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5673404?start=30&tstart=0

It appears as though disabling memory compression prevents the graphics corruption from happening. I haven't tried this fix, yet, myself. The obvious downside, of course, is that if memory compression is disabled, you wouldn't be able to enjoy the benefits of one of Mavericks' most heavily touted new features.

There are thousands of us out here. You are NOT alone and they have to know abou this issue. My oct. 2010 MBP $3,000 17" is sitting in it's box in the closet right now because of this issue. Comes on perfectly...and then about 5 minutes into working...I get this...only worse. Had lots of issues, while it was under warrantee the mother board was replace, the power supply was replaced, upgraded hard drive and ram...and I can't use it.

I been trougth the process you just describe.

After apple replaced my board the mbp started to have display distortion.

I too have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro, and get the artifacts. I got rid of them, but they just started up again. As someone else suggested, I went to System Preferences, Energy Saving, then unchecked the automatic switching for graphics, then re-checked it and the artifacts went away. Going to save this into my "Apple" email folder so I remember for next time. As with everyone else, this began when I upgraded to Mavericks. It isn't faulty graphics cards over the world, it's a software glitch. Please, Apple, we are not delusional. Please get a patch to fix this issue.