New macbook pro retina ruined by kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0x1f = Fifo: MMU Error

Question

hi everyone, i've been owning a macbook pro retina for 3 months. it never gave me any problem till 3 days ago, when i noticed it began to stuck randomly when the system performed an animation action (for example: click on the minus button on whatever app sometimes blocks my computer when the animation starts; opening an app from the dock; clicking on the "expand window" button of an app; dragging a usb device to the trash to eject it and more) this leads my computer to complete block, without possibility of recovery: only the cursor moves around, the screen freezes and after a while becomes dark, the combination cmd+alt+esc doesn't work, if i close the screen nothing changes and the apple on the back stays lit, the only thing i can do is forcing the shutdown through power button. now, after 3 days of searching in my console reports i've found this error:
kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0x1f = Fifo: MMU Error
which i really think is the cause of my problem. however, searching on the internet for this error, i've learnt that a lot of people has had this kind of problem when changing their graphics cards with others, but obviously i haven't touched anything in my macbook pro! plus, i've performed onyx scripts, and also apple hardware test which initially (mac without electricity plug) gave me this error 4SNS/1/40000001 : IDOR-0.002 but then, when i performed the complete test (after plugging the electricity) disappeared. today i tried again the fast hardware test with electricity too and it didn't give me anything, so the first error may have depended on the fact that i was using batteries?
is there a way to update graphics drivers on mac? can it be a solution?
please help me decide if it's the case to bring it to the genius bar or if a solution exists for my macbook!
thank you in advice,
a desperate mac addicted

Answer 1

NEVER EVER upgrade a version of OS X unless the computer is working perfectly to begin with, upgrading to attempt to solve a problem will only make your problem MUCH more difficult to troubleshoot.
Good luck.