MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) freeze with Yosemite

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013)

2.4 GHz Intel Core i7

16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB

I will go on record and say that I had no such issue until that Yosemite update.Running FCPX on this machine has become a nightmare😠 This thing crashes at least twice week and apple seems to ignore the issue. I always notice the laptop becomes hot near the volume keys when it freezes. Note: shutting down one of your graphic cards is not a resolution cause you paid for the performance of two 😕 My guess is they are waiting on another Class-action lawsuit; however I did find the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti8LqIHMnlQ

I also have a MBP mid 2012 Retina with NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M. Since updating to Yosemite all the computer in general is slower and performing slower and worst than before. I had lot of problems with Photoshop and since few days ago my internet browser (chome) is freezing all the time, i just need to click in a different tab and come back to the frozen one and is solved.

I can see the annoying of all the mac user that we pay lot of money for a quality product and it seems is becoming more like a pc.... I am getting really angry with this kind of behavior.

Can someone from Apple at least response in these threat????? Is it possible to get a solution? or we need to change from a crappy mac to a regular pc

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Welcome to Yosemite my friend - "Every bit as powerful as its looks". Sorry for being so negative about this but they won't do anything. Best thing to do is revert to Mavericks and move on. As they wont give a crap or do anything about it. as a Mac developer I have filed endless big reports about that exact problem ( graphics corruption and sluggishness ) they just keep marking it as duplicate and keep closing the bug and new betas they keep seeding only address fixes about mail, wifi and other pointless fixes.

After replacing whole MacBook with new one - problem gone.

So, after all I said, this must be hardware related 😕

Good luck everyone!

I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) running MacOS 10.10.1. I have the same freezing except for mouse pointer problem everyone else has described.

I tried

fixing permissions

repairing the disk

resetting NVRAM

resetting PRAM

and going to the Genius Bar and getting my logic board replaced.

I still have the exact same issue. I have switching turned off, but that's a lousy fix.

Hi dem107. I had the same problem you have. I fixed it coming back to Lion (10.7.5). I never have had any hard freezes problem on Lion. I hope you can solve your problem. Best regards.

dem107, I'm in the same boat as well.

I have done everything you have mentioned. I think I might have narrowed it down a little further experimenting with gfxCardStatus. I personally believe it is related to the Intel unit, not the NVIDIA. Mine is also a mid-2012 15" retina (2.6 Ghz/16 GB/ 512 GB Samsung SSD). I can run it in the forced integrated graphics for approximately 4-5 days. This includes closing the lid to make it sleep. Typically, if I haven't rebooted at that point, I experience the system freeze. It has varied. Sometimes it will be when "waking up," but other times it will occur after 10-15 minutes of use.

When I completely disable the automatic switching and force it to the NVIDIA, I can run it weeks at a time without any issues. I know during the boot process the system will do a quick switch between the graphics cards, but I'm not sure if this occurs when the computer is "waking up" from "sleep" mode. I don't believe this occurs when the automatic switching is disabled. One issue I've run into is that my settings will not save (disabling automatic switching); once I've rebooted switching is re-activated. There was a similar issue with getting notifications to save when going to Yosemite, and it involved deleting a folder. If anyone has a fix, please let me know. (Thanks in advance!)

As an FYI, I run for work Windows 8.1 in Parallels 10 as well as many of the Adobe Creative Cloud Apps (natively in OS X) (I will often have to run Windows simultaneously with InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere, and SAP. I always have Outlook open and sometimes some of the Office programs.). The computer definitely gets a workout, and the 650M graphics card handles it all fine with no system freezes, as long as switching to the Intel doesn't occur.

My issues did not occur until Yosemite (just like the majority of users). I'm still leaning towards there being a software/firmware issue with Yosemite and the Intel unit. Like some of the other developers on here, I had also submitted this issue and it was closed as a repeat issue directing to the same submission others have received.

For those recommending to go back to old platforms such as Lion, that is just not feasible for many of us. The modern applications require the latests platforms. It would be like returning to Windows XP (well, I guess not as bad as that is just a security nightmare in today's world). At the same time, I hope that Cook can better address this as Jobs never used to put up with "buggy" releases like this. On the flip side, it is still significantly more stable than even the latest versions of Windows. My desktop workstation in my office is a Late 2013 27" iMac 3.5 Ghz i7/32 GB/1TB SSD/GTX 780M. That one runs Windows 8.1 in Boot Camp. I run the Adobe stuff on the OS X side and our SAP applications in Windows. Yosemite on there runs fine with no issues. So even though this switching thing is not excusable and very annoying (having to use workarounds), it could be worse. I hope they get this fixed soon to bring this back to the level of an Apple (especially with a $3,000 unit).

Same problem on 10.10.1 (MBP retina mid 2012) 😟 Getting this issue every day....

Is this solved in the latest update 10.10.2? I just installed it and switched automatic graphics switching back on.

That makes no sense at all.

Hey guys,

Can some of you attest that you can reproduce the problem by bending slightly the case (power on, one hand on each side applying a torsion in one direction and the other, then the screen should go dark and you have to pray that it will display again after the hard shutdown) ?

lets all hope that 10.10.2 fix the problem - until now i'm pretty sure i only had it on battery mode. for like 5-6 times every 4-7 day, but then twice a day.

the problem is: i do not believe in apple fixing bugs anymore )=

just had a gpu switch-related freeze in 10.10.2 on my late-2013 MBPr about a minute after updating. will this ever get fixed?

I have the same problem. When my computer goes out of sleep mode. The automatic switcher is enabled again... When I try to disable it, my computer freezes.

I have another problem that comes with that. I could live with force shut downs 5 times a day, but when I need to force shut down or when my pc shuts down itself, it does not want to start up correctly again... Sometimes it takes me more than A DAY before I get to my homescreen again....

HELP ME 😟

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