10.8.4 consistent nvidia crash when waking from sleep

Question

On a Mid 2012 Macbook Pro I am getting a crash every time the nvidia card is engaged and the laptop goes to sleep.  This only started occuring after ugprading to 10.8.4 and I have since zeroed, formatted and reinstalled with a minimal set of applications.  The crash is easily reproducible and I can also verify that it only occurs if the computer goes to sleep while the nvidia card has been activated (using gfxCardStatus) not if it sleeps while the Intel onboard is engaged.  Unfortunately I only use OSX to use music software like Ableton Live.  Whenever I start Ableton Live 9 the nvidia GPU is engaged (why I have no idea) then if I walk away from the computer for 20 minutes I've crashed.
     Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
          com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.7)[990D1A42-DF16-3AB9-ABC1-6A88AC142244]@0 xffffff7fa9b85000->0xffffff7fa9bbcfff
                   dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.3)[1D668879-BEF8-3C58-ABFE-FAC6B3E9A292]@0xffff ff7fa9907000                    com.apple.NVDAResman(8.1.2)[96AE69DE-8A37-39D0-B2D3-D8446A6AA670]@0xffffff7fa9b dc000->0xffffff7fa9e81fff
                   dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.3)[1D668879-BEF8-3C58-ABFE-FAC6B3E9A292]@0xffff ff7fa9907000
                   dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.7)[6C8CFC18-75F0-3DEF-86C7-CEB2C1FD6BB1]@0xff ffff7fa9bc8000
                   dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.7)[990D1A42-DF16-3AB9-ABC1-6A88AC142244]@0 xffffff7fa9b85000             com.apple.GeForce(8.1.2)[7EC545A4-4B57-32F1-8DC3-C31023AFBDCB]@0xffffff7faaa140 00->0xffffff7faaae1fff
                   dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(8.1.2)[96AE69DE-8A37-39D0-B2D3-D8446A6AA670]@0xffffff7fa9b dc000
                   dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.7)[6C8CFC18-75F0-3DEF-86C7-CEB2C1FD6BB1]@0xff ffff7fa9bc8000
                   dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.3)[1D668879-BEF8-3C58-ABFE-FAC6B3E9A292]@0xffff ff7fa9907000
                   dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.7)[990D1A42-DF16-3AB9-ABC1-6A88AC142244]@0 xffffff7fa9b85000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer
Mac OS version:
12E55
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 12.4.0: Wed May  1 17:57:12 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2050.24.15~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 896CB1E3-AB79-3DF1-B595-549DFFDF3D36
Kernel slide:     0x0000000028e00000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8029000000
System model name: MacBookPro9,1 (Mac-4B7AC7E43945597E)

Answer 1

Try booting into the Safe Mode.  Shut down the computer and then power it back up. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart by using the application unistaller. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don't do them all at once.
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