I have vertical lines in the middle of my screen

have vertical lines in the middle of my screen

Disabling "Automatic Graphics Switching" seems to work to resolve this problem if there are random lines that appear around windows and glitches in the display.
System Prefs -> Energy Saver -> Disable automatic graphics switching
Source:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/23982751#23982751

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