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cdmihai Author

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4 points

Yosemite OS UI animation lag

Hello,

I recently updated my 2013 15" retina Macbook to Yosemite and I experience incredibly large lag on the OS UI animations.

The animations stutter badly and sometime even freeze.

While all OS animations stutter, here are the worst ones (since I usually perform them very frequently):

* changing between workspaces (3 finger left right swipe)

* showing all workspace windows (3 finger up swipe)

Does anybody know how to fix this?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 27, 2014 5:32 PM

80 replies

Jul 15, 2015 5:45 PM in response to tivoboy

This, in addition to using the 'default for display' resolution, gave me 100% seamless scrolling. Good find.

Jul 15, 2015 6:02 PM in response to fisher363

Good news is that 10.11 resolves *ALL* of the graphical issues that I've been beating my head in over since Yosemite's release. As crazy as it sounds, I'm enjoying the beta of El Capitan (10.11) much better than stable 10.10!

ddrt

Level 1

4 points

Oct 2, 2015 9:55 AM in response to ds10320

This fixed it for me.

aquaglia

Level 1

4 points

Dec 2, 2016 10:00 AM in response to cdmihai

I know this is an old post but I was experiencing the same issue on my MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012).

I simply had too many desktops (about 30 or so). I deleted them down to 8 and the lag went away.

aquaglia

Level 1

4 points

Dec 4, 2016 10:14 AM in response to cdmihai

Yosemite OS UI animation lag