MacBook retina screen artifacts

I put my screen to sleep using the hot corner and when I came back it looked like this (notice the curtains on the bottom). Anybody else seen this?

Yes - I'm seeing something like this (mine looks a bit different - bits of windows all over the place, strange pixelation etc.), but only after my mid-2012 Retina (same specs as Olivier.c but 2012 model) has been asleep for a while. It's something others have been noting here for a while and I've yet to see a universal fix. It's not specific to Mavericks as it was happening in Snow Lion too: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4036736?start=0&tstart=0
I already have automatic graphics switching turned off in Energy Saver, so it's not because of some glitch when it switches the graphics.
I have recently reinstalled Mavericks, as I was experiencing very slow startups after the upgrade, and having an ongoing issue with the very jerky scrolling in Safari which had carried over from Snow Lion; the reinstall fixed both of those problems, but now I've got THIS problem.
Interestingly, I cannot take a screen shot of the issue - at least not using Command + Shift + 4 - as soon as I start dragging the cursor across the screen to take the shot, it clears up! I haven't tried Command + Shift + 3 for the whole screen yet. Also haven't tried opening and closing the lid; it's only happened about three times now and it's rather transitory and resistent to reproduction on demand, so it's hard to test.

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Yes - I'm seeing something like this (mine looks a bit different - bits of windows all over the place, strange pixelation etc.), but only after my mid-2012 Retina (same specs as Olivier.c but 2012 model) has been asleep for a while. It's something others have been noting here for a while and I've yet to see a universal fix. It's not specific to Mavericks as it was happening in Snow Lion too: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4036736?start=0&tstart=0
I already have automatic graphics switching turned off in Energy Saver, so it's not because of some glitch when it switches the graphics.
I have recently reinstalled Mavericks, as I was experiencing very slow startups after the upgrade, and having an ongoing issue with the very jerky scrolling in Safari which had carried over from Snow Lion; the reinstall fixed both of those problems, but now I've got THIS problem.
Interestingly, I cannot take a screen shot of the issue - at least not using Command + Shift + 4 - as soon as I start dragging the cursor across the screen to take the shot, it clears up! I haven't tried Command + Shift + 3 for the whole screen yet. Also haven't tried opening and closing the lid; it's only happened about three times now and it's rather transitory and resistent to reproduction on demand, so it's hard to test.

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Take a look at this thread, they are following the same issue that you have at the moment.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18689511#18689511
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