MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) freeze with Yosemite

Sorry, my fault, I didn't read every single reply in the thread. I hope that doing a clean installation might at least help those with a GT 750m then. 🙂

I'm curious as to whether this really is an OS- or rather a GPU driver-related problem. Wouldn't surprise me if NVIDIA provided Apple with a sparsely tested new GPU driver for Yosemite.

Anyway, it's still Apple's responsibility, even if this is GPU-related, because they are shipping Yosemite with no option to manually change the driver or the configuration. It seems like a joke that these problems affect their $ 2000+ notebooks. It's been almost two weeks since release, hope there'll be an update soon.

The strangest thing here is that I used every single Yosemite beta since July and didn't have any graphic card related problems at all. of course Bluetooth and other things weren't working but never had problems with graphics. This bug was introduced in final build(s).

I am having the same problem (if not a trickier version of it). The screen freeze happens when the system switches TO the discrete GPU (in my case AMD Radeon HD 6750M on an Early 2011 MacBook Pro). This means I cannot force the system to stay on the AMD GPU (e.g. by disabling automatic graphics switching in system preferences), so there's no way to get around the freezes in my case.

Since this problem appearing in macs across many years, and across multiple GPU makers (nvidia, AMD), and it's happening only after the Yosemite update, it's reasonable to assume this is not a hardware issue, but something Yosemite-specific. I hope Apple releases an update to fix this soon.

Event: GPU Reset

Data/Time: Tue Oct 28 13:37:48 2014

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OS Version: Mac OS X Version 10.10 (Build 14A389)

Graphics Hardware: AMD Radeon HD 6750M

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I'm also having this problem. Apple when comes a solution?

I have been having the same issue... when surfing some websites, the graphics begin freezing. Also, the entire computer freezes, so I end up doing a hard restart. This only happened after updating to Yosemite. Hoping Apple will fix this issue with an update.

Hi,

I've the same problems but they occured with Mavericks also. Doesn't seem to be a problem with the OS but with the Hardware.

The System freezes only, when it switches the graphics card.

Cheers, Ingo

Same problem here, on mid 2012 Retina Macbook (Gt650m).

I don't have a perfect solution, however I wanted to suggest gfxCardStatus as app to controll which graphics card is used. This way you can also force to the IntelGPU.

Apple, please fix it!

I just bought a brand new MBP (Mid 2014) last week because my "old" macbook started experiencing GPU Panics.

My old macbook had the wifi connection issue after upgrade to Yosemite.

The first thing I experienced on this one was the GPU Reset about 10 minutes after I installed Yosemite.

I also have the impression it is a bunch slower than my old MBP, graphics are really sluggish. The graphics switching between integrated and discreet is sometimes visible as a small "flash". So basically I traded a macbook with wonky wifi and a hardware issue with the nvidia chip for a brand new one with nvidia crashes.

Been an extremely happy Apple user the last 4 years, but this Yosemite upgrade has really cost them a lot of reputation points in my book. It's so not their usual M.O.

My god what a bunch of crap this thing is. Hopefully a patch is released really soon, both for the wifi problems and the bad graphics performance.

I've had the same problems, not only with the graphics, but the WiFi. Hoping they are seeing this and will release a patch to fix these issues. I had to replace my 17" MacBook Pro with a new Macbook Pro Retina.... and to have the graphics act up, along with the other issues, is pretty unfortunate.

Seeing the same on Mid 2012 Retina MBP.

Event: GPU Reset

Data/Time: Thu Oct 30 21:23:18 2014

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OS Version: Mac OS X Version 10.10 (Build 14A388b)

Graphics Hardware: Intel HD Graphics 4000

Signature: 801

hi geeks,

yes u r right...i too facing the same issues due to the up gradation to yosemite...yosemite was developed with high performance of GUI, so the hardware chip of the VGA get heat and the problem occurs...so better the geek who stay at marverick remain same...good luck....the solution is from srilanka is to replace the chip with the cost of 22k or else to change the mother board which cost 78k.

Regards

Ok guys, the only solution right now is gfx.io Install it and lock ur integrated/external card. You should not have freezes when locked to a card.

Now we are waiting for a fix from Apple.

I forgot to mention that I have this issue with my MacBook Pro Retina 15-inch Early 2013 (NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB) ...

It's kind of funny. Several years ago I had that tool installed just to see when it switched (because it was all so cool when it did and you didn't notice).

Now I have it installed on both my macbooks and it currently is my most important tool...

The one that is in for repair had it to keep the graphics on integrated (if discrete graphics activates it crashes within minutes) and for my brand new, one week old one I have it locked on discrete, as I use external monitors all the time.

So yeah, it's a life saver and everyone should install it until someone at Apple wakes up and realizes it's time to release that patch 🙂

gfxCardStatus is one possibility to lock the system to the integrated Intel graphic card. Unfortunatly this is no solution for people with an external display. In my case, I'm using a Thunderbolt Display at the office. If I connect it, gfxCardStatus pops up a message and reactivates the automatic switching because the dedicated GPU is needed if you run an external display on your Mac :-(