MBP Retina Filevault login screen is low resolution all of sudden

Hey guys, so I did the few software updates today to get ready for Mountain Lion and I started to notice that all of a sudden now my filevault enabled login screen (the one that's all grey and you see before even booting up the operating system) is in low resolution! Since i've had my MBPr it's always been in glorious retina resolution, and now it's all low res.
Anybody else encountered this problem or know of any fix? I'd appreciate it!
Best,
Oliver

I've got the same problem on mine after changing the resolution several times. I've just applied 10.8.2 but still have the same issue.
Havent found anybody else seeing the same thing apart from here. I'm going to try de-crypting the Mac and encrypting again to see if that fixes it. There must be some way to change it though.

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