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Q: Yosemite very laggy after installation

Hello,

I have a late-2012 Macbook pro and Today I installed Yosemite. But starting from the moment after finishing the installation I feel a very obvious lag in some cases. Especially in Safari, iTunes notifications and switching between windows I experience something like it gets frozen for a second, and it goes on. I don't know If it only happens to me or it is just an ordinary post-update process (already 5 hours passed after installation), I am really uneasy with that. So what can I do at this moment? If you have any suggestions or comments about the issue, I'll appreciate.

Thanks,

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 17, 2014 12:11 PM

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  • by smazurov,

    smazurov smazurov Oct 27, 2014 11:54 AM in response to staywatchful
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    Oct 27, 2014 11:54 AM in response to staywatchful

    I was having the same issue, and, for me there was a lot of mis-information.  What helped was a comment in another thread to reset the SMC. It was an immediate difference and took all of 2 minutes.  I never had fireVault turned on (fdesetup status signifies that it is off). If all you're getting is slow UI (without any flicker, weird spots on the monitor, etc), try SMC reset: Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC).

  • by dapvincent,

    dapvincent dapvincent Oct 27, 2014 1:34 PM in response to Jessie Bryan
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    Oct 27, 2014 1:34 PM in response to Jessie Bryan

    My issue is not fully resolved with disabling the transparency, though it does help a lot.

     

    Like Jessie, I too performed a fresh install over the weekend as a test. The issue is still apparent when plugging in an external. Not sure if I can afford taking the time to go back to Mavericks, although things did run beautifully.

     

    Anyone have any updates from Apple on a potential fix?

  • by Tommy grant,

    Tommy grant Tommy grant Oct 28, 2014 3:20 AM in response to staywatchful
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    Oct 28, 2014 3:20 AM in response to staywatchful

    hey. i think i found a solution but it does require backing up all your work.

    the problem is is that you may have installed mavericks on mountain lion, and Yosemite on mavericks, 3 layers of OS X does cause lag, doing a clean install should solve this problem for you

     

     

    You need to do a clean install by downloading a fresh copy of Yosemite on a (minimum 8gb) usb drive and then delete everything and start from scratch. click here to get a step by step: http://osxdaily.com/2014/10/18/clean-install-os-x-yosemite/

  • by Tommy grant,

    Tommy grant Tommy grant Oct 28, 2014 3:25 AM in response to staywatchful
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    Oct 28, 2014 3:25 AM in response to staywatchful

    hey. i think i found a solution but it does require backing up all your work. the problem is is that you may have installed mavericks on mountain lion, and Yosemite on mavericks, 3 layers of OS X does cause lag, doing a clean install should solve this problem for you You need to do a clean install by downloading a fresh copy of Yosemite on a (minimum 8gb) usb drive and then delete everything and start from scratch. click here to get a step by step: http://osxdaily.com/2014/10/18/clean-install-os-x-yosemite/

  • by Jessie Bryan,

    Jessie Bryan Jessie Bryan Oct 31, 2014 11:36 AM in response to Tommy grant
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    Oct 31, 2014 11:36 AM in response to Tommy grant

    Hello,

     

    I already tried that - no success.  Do you have an AMD 6490M ?  Chances are you do not, and are having separate issue than a few of us with AMD 6490M chipsets on Yosemite.

     

    I spent the time to format and clean install Mavericks, and it's back to running great,  I wish the same was true when I tried Yosemite.

     

    If anyone sees progress with AMD 6490M reported issues, please update this thread!

  • by dapvincent,

    dapvincent dapvincent Oct 31, 2014 3:03 PM in response to Jessie Bryan
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    Oct 31, 2014 3:03 PM in response to Jessie Bryan

    Anyone find a formal fix using the AMD 6490M yet?

     

    Something interesting happened to me the other day. I had the computer docked to the thunderbolt display, closed the lid, reopened it and finder crashed. I got an error report saying there was a critical graphics error. Everything refreshed and the desktop came back on. Since then, I have had 0 lag, like when I was using Mavericks. It's as if there was a cached driver file that needed to be flushed, and then the correct drivers were loaded. Wish I could explain how to reproduce, but it was completely random from my point of view.

  • by Rotox,

    Rotox Rotox Nov 3, 2014 7:16 AM in response to dapvincent
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    Nov 3, 2014 7:16 AM in response to dapvincent

    I'm having the identical problem you did with the same hardware. Tried closing the lid and reopening but did not get a graphics error/crash. Would be great to find out what it actually did to clear it up and whether the problem reappears.

  • by AA78,

    AA78 AA78 Nov 6, 2014 6:38 AM in response to staywatchful
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    Nov 6, 2014 6:38 AM in response to staywatchful

    Just adding my name to the list - same AMD Radeon HD 6490M 256 MB graphics as others have reported. Runs fine without the TB Cinema Display, but like a dog when its connected.

  • by Thataboy,

    Thataboy Thataboy Nov 18, 2014 4:57 AM in response to staywatchful
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    Nov 18, 2014 4:57 AM in response to staywatchful

    Try removing Backblaze.

     

    I had no problems in Mavericks.  After upgrading to Yosemite, I was getting constant beachballs with Carbonite installed.  Deleted it, and beachballs went away.  Installed Backblaze.  While doing the initial backup, I get the beachballs, but when I pause it... no beachballs.

     

    My guess is that these online backup processes might be causing problems in Yosemite (or on fusion drives, like in my iMac).

  • by t.cservenak,

    t.cservenak t.cservenak Nov 18, 2014 12:37 PM in response to staywatchful
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    Nov 18, 2014 12:37 PM in response to staywatchful

    Had same problem: MBP mid 2014 + 2yr old Thunderbolt display. Note: my MBP came with Mavericks, was upgraded to Yosemite.

     

    Problems I had: huge lag when switching between spaces, lag and dead slow window resizing, effects like combo box selection was almost as being slow motion, etc... was very slow. Still, Activity Monitor did not show any "drag" (CPU usage), nor did the other hints (like disabling transparency) help at all, lag was always same. One thing I noticed: in clamshell and two-monitor mode (MBP open), Thunderbolt display was laggy, but when MBP used w/o display, it was okay, not laggy.

     

    I went for solution recommended by user "smazurov" few responses below: reset SMC

     

    Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) - Apple Support

     

    Now the switch between spaces, window resizing is snappy as I'd expect...

  • by Rotox,

    Rotox Rotox Nov 18, 2014 12:42 PM in response to staywatchful
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    Nov 18, 2014 12:42 PM in response to staywatchful

    New firmware update came out today for Thunderbolt Display. Guess they were waiting for 10.10.1 to release first. With the new firmware and turning on Reduce Transparency, disabling auto-switching graphics card it seems to be better now on my setup especially with zooming. However not as good as it used to be before Yosemite so clearly not completely resolved (in my case).

  • by Rayced,

    Rayced Rayced Dec 6, 2014 6:01 PM in response to Rotox
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    Dec 6, 2014 6:01 PM in response to Rotox

    Those updates haven't fixed the issues. I did a clean install of Yosemite. Not only I am experiencing lags but also graphic glitches very bad. I agree with dapvincent. In Mavericks no problems, and that system of mine was upgraded from Lion to ML and then to Mavericks; it also has many more applications installed compared to the clean installed Yosemite.

     

    Does someone knows if it is possible to use previous (Mavericks) AMD Radeon HD 6490M  drivers on Yosemite?

  • by paolo.mactux,

    paolo.mactux paolo.mactux Jan 30, 2015 7:41 AM in response to staywatchful
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    Jan 30, 2015 7:41 AM in response to staywatchful

    Same here with 10.10.2 . MAcbook early 2011 was perfect with mavericks, very very laggy with yosemite.

     

     

     

    Unbelievable.

  • by gwhobbs,

    gwhobbs gwhobbs Feb 9, 2015 1:35 PM in response to paolo.mactux
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    Feb 9, 2015 1:35 PM in response to paolo.mactux

    I have an early 2011 MBP with the 6490m and am having the same issue.  Going from 4GB to 8GB seemed to help with the integrated card... I hope it is not an unresolvable VRAM issue. 

  • by paolo.mactux,

    paolo.mactux paolo.mactux Feb 10, 2015 6:50 AM in response to gwhobbs
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    Feb 10, 2015 6:50 AM in response to gwhobbs

    I have 16gb of ram and an ssd... and it is very laggy, 10.10.2 now.

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