Low resolution start up on mbpr

Recently, I have noticed that when I first turn on my mbpr that the first gray screen with the apple logo is low res, it quickly changes back to high res, but this has never happened before today. The same thing occurs when I hold down the option key to go into Bootcamp, the drives are all massive on the screen and low res, but again, it quickly reverts to high res as soon as I choose which OS to boot into.
Granted, it's not a huge deal, but I find it slightly irritating knowing that I haven't changed anything with my system but it seems to have altered itself somehow. Any thoughts?

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