Mulitple monitor graphics glitch

I'm experiencing a graphics glitch on my 2nd monitor which I'm using firefox 4 in. My dropdown live bookmarks are whiting out when my mouse pointer floats over them and becomes visible when they're not. only on the 2nd monitor. Also for radio / check mark buttons selections in the browser, I have to click above the radio button to select.

Have you tried installing the oldbar module?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/oldbar/
I had a slightly different problem to you - my site suggestion list flickered badly on my second monitor, which is to the left of my main monitor. It may be caused by the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/XUL:Richlistbox RichListBox] widget not working on the second monitor, but that's just a guess. The option to disable the RichListBox was [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407836 removed] in an earlier version of FF, but the oldbar module fixed the issue for me.
I haven't noticed the issue you have when selecting radio buttons or checkboxes.

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MSI N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II/OC: Graphical Glitches/Corruption

Hello, I bought and installed an MSI N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II/OC video card one week ago. For the last week, it has been running perfectly, but today when I started up a game the 3D graphics began glitching and showing random stretched triangles and distorted models. While the 3D graphics are running, the monitor randomly loses signal from the video card and occasionally the program will crash with a popup bubble stating that the NVIDIA driver has recovered from a problem.
After reading through some posts here, I downloaded the MSI Afterburner program, enabled voltage monitoring, and set everything to defaults.
The defaults are:
Core Voltage: 1000 mV
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When I click the button to run a Kombuster stability test, the 3D has the same graphical glitches that I saw in my games. Here is a screenshot:
http://i733.photobucket.com/albums/ww333/MP64x2/corrupted_880.jpg
I tried lowering the Core Clock speed and retrying the test. It appears that the level of corruption is proportional to the clock speed. At the minimum clock speed of 440 MHz, the graphics are almost perfect, however a glitch or two will still occasionally show up.
Here is the test at Core Clock = 705 MHz: http://i733.photobucket.com/albums/ww333/MP64x2/corrupted_705.jpg
and at 440 MHz: http://i733.photobucket.com/albums/ww333/MP64x2/corrupted_440.jpg
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- I do not have access to another system that I can try the video card in.
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As I type this I'm starting to get corruption right on my desktop too, with random pixels changing color and black rectangles appearing on applications.
From what I've read in other threads, it seems like my power supply may not be sufficient since it has multiple 12V rails, but before I spend ~$100 on a new one I thought I'd see if anyone had any other thoughts.

Quote from: MP64 on 22-April-11, 03:46:20
I have an interesting update on my original problem.
A week after I reseated the card, the graphical glitches returned. I turned the computer off, reseated the card again, turned it on, and it began working fine.
Another week goes by with no problems, and then a couple days ago the glitches came back. Thinking it strange that the card could somehow take approximately the same amount of time to cause the same kind of bad connection, I wondered if there was something else that was causing the glitches to temporarily disappear.
I tried rebooting my computer, but the glitches remained.
I then completely turned off my computer and pulled out the power cord and left it for a couple minutes. I didn't open the case at all and made sure not to do anything that would bump any components. I turned the computer back on - glitches are gone once again.
So, it would seem that it may in fact have something to do with the power supply and not any bad connections with the card itself - at least, that's the best guess I have at the moment. I leave my computer on 24/7 so it seems like it doesn't like being left on for an entire week with this new video card installed.
Does this sound sensible? Is it possible for a power supply to slowly fail over several days, only to start working again after being powered down for a couple minutes?
Did you ever figure your issue out? I have the exact same issue. My system runs fine for almost a week...and then my desktop starts artifacting. The only way it goes away is to unplug my pc (or flip the switch on PSU). Then it runs again perfectly for nearly a week again and I start getting artifacts and the message stating that the graphics driver has stopped working and then recovered.
I also run my pc 24/7 and this problem is getting very annoying! My PSU shouldn't be a problem as I have the PC & Cooling 750W...
Oh...almost forgot. I've seen the same issue on 2 video cards now. RMA'd the first one and the second one does the exact same thing...

[Solved] Catalyst graphical glitches with dual head setup

Hello all, having a weird issue with my dual monitor setup where graphical glitches make my primary monitor completely unusable. The Tear Free feature of the proprietary catalyst driver is what seems to be causing it:
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Tear Free disabled:
I can safely enable it with one monitor disabled also. The issue is that without Tear Free enabled, I'm experiencing some serious screen tearing when watching videos and playing games.
My video card is the XFX HD 7970 Double D and I'm using the latest version of catalyst (14.4), installed from Vi0L0's repo. The monitors are the same model with the same specs (1920x1200 @60Hz). I definitely used to be able to use Tear Free with my dual head setup at most a month ago, so some update at some point must have broken it. I temporarily switched back to the open source driver before I had found Tear Free to be the culprit and the performance is still hardly comparable.
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Rexilion wrote:Maybe try looking at /var/log/pacman.log and see if you can downgrade packages (start with the kernel). See if that works around the problem.
Downgrading catalyst to 14.3 seems to have done the job. Thanks for the suggestion, marking as solved.
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Sorry, I don't post often and wasn't aware of the rules on images. I'll keep that in mind next time.

Graphic glitch and freezing.

I had a graphic problem with my iMac 3 weeks ago, had to take it to an Apple repairer 3 hours away, there just isn't anyone closer, and have had it back for about 6 hours now. I got the Snow Leopard upgrade while it was away and have been looking forward to getting into it all. As soon as I got my iMac home I fired it up and straight away noticed a graphic glitch or something odd on my 2nd monitor, kinda looked like aliens from space invaders... This problem went away if I changed that monitors resolution or if I rotated the display, so I thought it might be a driver problem which should hopefully be fixed by upgrading to SL.
I attempted this upgrade, it seemed to go fine but when I finally got into SL I noticed that once again there were some space invader glitches, but instead of being huge and all the way across the 2nd monitor they were in 2 separate blocks 1 in the top left and one just slightly to the right from center at the very top, they were flashing green from time to time (just like before) but that was about all. After a few seconds all the icons on my desktop and also the dock icons screwed up, display as black and white lines, or weird colored blocks, or super pixelated and just pretty screwy.
I formatted from fresh doing Leopard (without updating fully to 10.5.8) then installing SL, same problem, I then tried installing just SL which worked as usual but still had the graphic glitches when hovering over or interacting this time, also there were some problems with the glitches showing over windows (I'll put a link to a screenshot of them at the end). I'm currently updating a fresh install of Leopard to 10.5.8 to then update to SL to see if that works.
I had a thought that it might be hardware, the logic board and graphics card were both replaced during the repair time, they said they tested it but on the repair form I got it just says 'restarted a few times with no problems' so I'm not sure if they even tested it very much.
It took almost 3 weeks to get my mac back today, and these problems are quite annoying, if I have to lose it for another 3 weeks because of this lack of testing I'm gonna be rather annoyed as I'm losing work because of it.
Anyone got ideas of what it might be? or just anyone else had this problem with SL or just Leopard? Any information would be great.
Screenshot of glitch while doing a google search:
http://www.xager.net/i/glitch.jpg

My old first gen macbook pro had a similar problem (under Tiger and Leopard), it was fixed. My current unibody macbook pro is doing this as well, I've only noticed it now under Snow Leopard.
I doubt it's a software problem, I've had similar issues in PCs when their video cards were running too hot. My current mbp gets these glitches when the system is under more load and so I'm sure its heat related. One time the heat and glitches got so bad the system just locked up.
I hope you can get your system repaired. I am going to now go ahead and try my luck with apple support as well.

Premiere Pro CS6 playback issues & graphics glitches

Hi everyone.
For a few days now (not sure whether it's been like this since the latest update) I have been experiencing serious playback issues and graphics glitches with Premiere Pro CS6. I'm on a Macbook Pro Retina.
Please see attached screenshot for reference. What happens is, I start Premiere - it works fine for a few minutes, but at some point things start to go wrong. The program monitor doesn't show anything anymore, even though the playhead is moving and I get audio.
Sometimes, either the program monitor or the source monitor displays some other part of the Premiere UI or even OSX Finder windows/ other applications like safari. What you are seing in the screenshot is a glitch showing a part of the source window within the program window.
Once this happens, there's nothing I can do but to restart Premiere.
Does anyone else have these kinds of issues?
Premiere is becoming unusable for me at the moment, which is a serious issue since this is my primary NLE.
What also happens from time to time is the following: i start up my project, and once i do anything like moving the playhead, i receive the following error message "a serious error has occurred that requires Adobe Premiere Pro to shut down" which then does exactly what it says. this will happen repeateadly until i restart my computer.
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Welcome to the forum.
Make sure you have the latest driver for your video card, and if you're using hardware mercury playback, then make sure you have the latest CUDA drivers from nvidia. If that doesn't work, then please answer the questions here as completely as you can:
Adobe Forums: FAQ: What information should I provide when asking a question on this forum?
Jeff

IMac (24" Aluminium, Mid 2008) Freezing and Graphical Glitches

Hi all,
I'm having to write this on my MacBook as my iMac developed serious problems yesterday evening. Nothing new has been installed recently, and I was just listening to music on iTunes when I noticed that my iMac seemed to have frozen, although music was still playing. After the song finished it switched to the next track, but I could not control anything. The screen developed graphical glitches in the form of a lot of speckles. All I could do was hold in the button on the back and turn it off.
I've tried turning it on a few times today and the problem still persists. I've tried resetting the PRAM but that hasn't fixed it. Myself and my housemate seem to think it's a graphics card issue (NVidia GeForce 8800GS), but the problem doesn't occur when booted in Safe Mode and also doesn't occur when in Windows XP under boot camp. My iMac is running Snow Leopard 10.6.8, and I have no idea why this has suddenly happened. I swear this has happened once before, but I think the PRAM reset was what I did back then and it worked.
A few weeks ago I upgraded the iMac from 2GB RAM to 4GB RAM but it's been absolutly fine until now. Could a RAM issue be to blame for this, and could it take so long to suddenly emerge?
Thanks in advance for and help or insight anyone could offer. I know there are a lot of posts about this but I know some symptoms are slightly different so I wanted this post to be specific to my case.

+I guess the big question is whether the iMac dvi port is output and input.+
Output only on that model iMac. You'd best borrow a real monitor for initial configuration of the Mini. Once it is configured and you've turned on Screen Sharing, you can access the Mini remotely from the iMac.

Weird graphical glitch - Aperture 2.1.1l

First, my system configuration is as follows:
Mac Pro (original 2006), OS X 10.5.4
ATI Radeon X1900XT with two monitors (24" 1920x1200 flat panel, 17" 1280x1024 flat panel)
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4GB of RAM
2x 250GB SATA hard drives.
Here's the problem. When I use Aperture, I frequently get a black screen in the photo area when I start editing a photo, particularly the levels control. I cannot see the photo once I start editing it, and when I switch to other photos it either randomly goes black or displays the photo with really bad color distortion.
If I export the photos and open them in Preview they look fine. It's only while being edited in Aperture that they look messed up. Also, if I use the fast preview feature (P to toggle it when browsing) the problem goes away. But of course this keeps me from adjusting photos which is the primary purpose of Aperture!
Has anyone else seen this problem? It's maddening that I spent $200 on this software and it has such obvious graphical glitches.
Thanks for any insight anyone can provide.
-John "Zorin" Flynn

Your post got me to thinking, and I started fiddling with the displays.
When I unplug the 17" flat panel from the Nvidia 7300GT card, the problem goes away. It only seems to happen when that display is active.
It doesn't seem to matter how I connect the displays, if the head on the Nvidia card is activate the problem manifests.
So there's some sort of conflict between the video cards. This is odd, because *everything else* on the system works great. Heck, I like to drag playing videos off onto that head and it works beautifully.
Oh well, guess I'll have to unplug the monitor whenever I use Aperture until the bug is fixed. Still very annoyed, as it's all Apple hardware and shouldn't have these problems. What happened to "It just works"?

Had a wierd graphics glitch...

Just had my first strange graphics glitch tonight. I was moving photos around in Aperture and listening to some music through iTunes, and also had Firefox open, when suddenly the menu bar turned into a bunch of random colored blocks and the computer slowed WAAAAY down, to the point I had to to a hard shutdown. The bottom did feel pretty hot to the touch, though iStat said it was running around 65C or so. First time it's happened, so hoping to not see a repeat.

If this happens again, you might want to check Activity Monitor and see if you have some process running amok in the background and hogging the CPU. This could possibly produce the heat and slowness you are describing. Be sure to select "All Processes" at the top when you do this. See if you can find and quit the rogue process. If you can, then your computer should calm down and run normally.
Good luck!

Graphic glitches in environnement

hi
just tried 8.02 on test drive. Macpro8. when i select a track with playing sound, i get graphic glitches in the environnement window, 2nd screen. the levelmeters are showing "LED's" under the lower objects end. redrawing doesn't cure the behaviour. redrawing only works, if there is no sound, no "flashing virtual LED's". the trackmixer is working correct.
any idea?
thanx
christian

Ben - I've got an 8800GT card in 2008 Mac Pro - using two 1920 x 1080 monitors.
10.5.3 & 8.0.2 seems to have less artifacts for me.
I'm not a power user, and haven't hit it too hard yet, but I've only noticed a level meter on the environment page where part of the led bar that goes up and down is slightly offset (just the bar, not the entire object). Doesn't seem to matter which monitor it is on. Redrawing doesn't fix the issue.

T400 - serious graphical glitches while Hardware Virtualization is turned on in the BIOS.

While hardware virtualization is enabled in my T400, I'm getting serious graphical glitches (garbled graphics). This happens both when outputting to the T400's monitor or when outputting to an external display.
I actually don't have to do anything special to get the garbling to start - just booting Windows 7 and using it regularly will make it start to glitch.
Help please.

Pickaxe wrote:
Thank you for that link, it was very helpful.
The 'solution' of course, was far from satisfying (I'm experiencing Type B visual corruption). Especially considering the model I'm using is preconfigured - Lenovo shipped it with a 2GB+1GB DIMM.
It boggles my mind that Lenovo uses a configuration that is not fully compatible with the processor.
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Momentary Pauses and Graphical Glitches

I'm having the following issues with my mac pro that I use at work. I also have the same specification machine at home without the problem.
1.) During a cold boot (after being off over night) two of the screens become absolutely garbled. Both of the LCD's are connected to an NVidia 7300GT thats plugged into the x16 PCI Express port. I also have another 7300GT that drives an additional monitor that doesn't have any issues. This happens when I boot to OS/X, and when I boot to Windows XP. However, on XP it doesn't happen till I login.
2.) When the machine is warm everything seems okay most of the time. Under OS/X it will occasionally hang where nothing does anything, but then after a second or two everything will be fine. There are little graphics hickups occasionally that go away if I move a window over them. Under XP every great once in a while the screen will become garbled and it will lock up. No blue screen or any error messages. I don't believe its ever the screen connected to the video card in the X8 slot.
These are the steps that I've taken to rectify the problem, but they've all failed.
A.) I did the hardware diagnostics and it reported everything as peachy. I ran both the quick test, and the extended test. It DID however seem rather unresponsive during sections of the testing, but that might be normal.
B.) I reset the PRAM/NVRAM. FYI - it only beeped once and rebooted.
C.) I pulled out the Video card on the X16 lane, and replaced it with the one that was on a X8 pci express lane.
D.) I used the video card from step C on the PCI Express X8 lane, and didn't have a video card in the X16 lane. I don't remember if this test worked because I soon had issues booting it. Apparently it didn't like this configuration.
E.) I removed a hard drive that I put in recently (couple months ago). I can't remember having any of the issues before I put it in. The hard drive seemed fine though. No errors, clicking or any strangeness.
F.) I reinstalled OS/X using a brand new disk, and I also installed Vista on it. Vista showed no signs of issues, and the brand new install of OS/X 10.5.6 still had the occasionally pausing. I haven't tried a cold boot with Vista yet. I imagine the graphics will become garbled. I also haven't used Vista enough to experience the every once in awhile (1 or 2 times a day) garbled screen lockup that I had with XP. I have used Vista enough to know it doesn't pause like OS/X does on the machine. I know OS/X doesn't pause like that normally.
G.) I reconfigured the PCI express lanes so that three of them are X8. I haven't tested the cold boot, but OS/X still hangs occasionally. I haven't been able to determine any pattern to the hanging.
H.) There is no indication in the console of whats making OS/X momentarily freeze
I just want to see if there is anything left to do before I start swapping parts with my Mac Pro at home. There really is only the memory (maybe the cards the memory is on as well), mother board and the power supply. My bet at this point is the logic board.
Message was edited by: Jason Mecham

Update - Despite my feelings that it wouldn't work I decided to try the Nvidia Geforce 8800 GT, and to my surprise it worked.
It solved the issue of momentary pauses within OS/X 10.5.6
It solved the problem I had where 10.5.7 wasn't working at all (it was nightmarishly slow)
It solved the occasional graphical glitches within XP
It solved the cold boot graphics/system freezes I was having within OS/X, and XP
It solved Vista's issue with the graphics driver crashing, and reloading a few times a day.(I never turned it off once vista was getting me by).
I find it really bizarre considering that I have two 7300 GT's and I tried both of them individually in the system with no luck.
I haven't tried putting one of them back in combination with the 8800, but that's my next step. I do want support for 3 monitors.
If that fails I'll try the questionable 7300GTs in my home mac pro. I have a 7300GT in it, and it's still working fine.
If the questionable ones fail than I'll feel a lot better. I don't care about a video card, but I do care that my mac pro is working without issue.
The only surprise in this is how well Vista works with crappy hardware. I mean it just kept running right throw the glitches. It would tell me about it, and where it occurred, and after a reloading the graphics driver it kept on going.

Freezing Macbook Pro. Graphical glitches and occasional 3 tones on start up. Hardware test shows no errors. Is it RAM or a graphics card on the way out, or software?

Recently my MacBook Pro has been freezing and showing bad graphical glitches. Multiple restarts eventually fix it and a couple of times the three tones break, three tones break warning has occurred on start up. From what I can find this is usually a RAM error but after doing a hardware check I get the response all is OK. This still happens after the check and I am unsure what the problem could be. Can anyone help? Could it be a memory issue, a hard drive issue, Graphics card issue (drivers are up to date) or is something up with the software. I also have a Bootcamp partition running Windows 7 too and this is a problem that presents itself there too.

Most likely to be RAM:
Beeps on startup:
1 beep = no RAM installed
2 beeps = incompatible RAM types
3 beeps = no good banks
4 beeps = no good boot images.
5 beeps = processor is not usable
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2538
I would suggest you take it to an Apple Store for a free diagnostic.

Crashes, graphics glitches, and more crashes when editing video clips

Can't for the life of me figure out why PE keeps crashing on me, so I'm here for help.
My system consists of a i7-970 hexacore, 6GB ram, 1x 500GB os drive, 3x500gb raid 0 drives (this is where my video clips are stored), 2x GeForce GTX460 video cards.
OS is Windows 7 Profressional 64 bit.
The video files I work with are generally in the 50-200GB size.
A little background - the videos that I am working with are recordings from Battlefield Bad Company 2 that I have recorded with some capture software called Dxtory.
I record at 1920x1080 at 60 FPS to avi files. The avi files are using the "xtor" codec (Dxtory's own codec)
[ISFT] DxtoryCore ver2.0.0.101
[ISRC] Video:YUV420 Audio:Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Audio is PCM 192000Hz recorded in stereo.
Let me start by saying I have not had trouble with this before until I started recording the videos at 60 FPS. 30 FPS worked ok (some crashes here and there, but they were bearable), but the frequent crashes started happening when I started working with the 60 FPS videos, done mainly so I could play around with slowing the clips down, etc.
Sometimes I can open and edit clips just fine.
Recently, a project that I'm working on is crashing when I try putting two different clips from different files together on the time line. I managed to get it to work once, and saved the project after that. Then, PE crashed randomly and when trying to reopen the project, it just crashes and won't let me get any further.
I should mention the graphics glitches as well - occasionally (especially when previewing video clips before adding them to the timeline) after I close the preview window, the graphics in PE will glitch out, causing random lines to appear in certain areas, graphics to stack on top of eachother and freeze up, and sometimes I can click on the "play" button in the main project window and hear everything start playing, but the graphics are completely screwed up to the point where I can't view the video or hit the pause button.
All of my computer hardware is fine, all drivers, and PE, are up to date.
Can someone please help me figure out what is going on? I'll be happy to provide any more information that might help out.

The most likely issue is the codec that your program is using the create your video. It's apparently not compatible with Premiere Elements.
This often happens also when people try to record their on-screen video with FRAPS.
You'll see lots of discussions on this issue in the Premiere Pro forum. However, it's even more pronounced in Premiere Elements, which is designed to work almost exclusively with camcorder video.
Some video programs are a little more versatile with this type of video. Some people have found Corell's Video Studio better at handling these non-traditonal formats.
But I did a Google search on Dxtory editing and couldn't find any information on it.
Sorry I can't offer a solution. But I can pretty much assure you that Premiere Elements isn't it. sorry.

Graphical Glitches: Objects appear not selected when they are, Symbols not appearing correctly

I've been having a ton of graphical glitches with Adobe Flash CS6 and I can't for the life of me figure out for the life of me.
Things that happen:
Objects will not appear selected when using the Free Transform Tool.
Symbols don't appar in scene when pasted, or dragged in until I leave the scene or symbol im in. They show up in the preview window though.
Something else I've been noticing is that when I use the Pen tool my computer or speakers or something making this werid noise and it only happens when I'm using the Pen tool.
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No one has had these issues? I just got another one. My timeline disappeared, I don't mean the menu hid or thats it not there. It's there its just not actually displaying the Timeline or at least it didn't till I wen't back a few changes for some reason. It was still there though as I could click the eye and lock and the layers (which ones I have no idea) it was all grey. Also again the selection area doesn't show up, all movements of symbols are slow to update their postitions and when I turn on outlines it does nothing.
Also everytime I close Flash I get an error from windows, no idea why.

Macbook pro retina graphic glitch

Hello,
I'd like to share with you my story with the problems I've had with my macbook pro retina 15' 2012 (with both intel and nvidia graphics) and ask for some help.
First of all, back when it still had Mountain Lion as its OS I already detected some graphic glitches. When I started the mbpr, 1 out of 5 times it would load buggy. The dock would shake whenever I move the mouse over it, exposé would lag a lot and eventually scrolling in Safari was terrible, incredibly shaky. Basically every animation on the OS went laggy or just at 10 fps.
However the performance in terms of speed and results was still OK. If I played a game I would detect no error whatsoever.
So after some months of ignoring it because I had work and couldn't take the mac to the store I decided to take it. It was getting worse as it started to happen more often than usual. By then I had already upgraded to Mavericks (no clean install, just updated) and the problem still persisted.
Visit #1:
After explaning the problem and being able to show it to the genius they took my mac. They called a couple of days after telling me it was a OS issue and they did a clean install of Mavericks.
So I took it home, reinstall everything from scratch, they told me it may be an account/user issue so I better not use time machine to recover anything.
After a month it started to happen again. I have to say that it happen after I had already installed everything quite some time before, not right after installing any particular app or while running any.
It would load buggy again 1 out of 2/3 times and it wouldn't stop until I restarted and if I was lucky enough it would load OK.
Visit #2:
I returned to the genius and explained again the problem. They decided that it had to be some graphic issue related to the intel or nvidia systems so they replaced the logic board.
Again a couple of weeks later I detected the problem again.
Visit #3:
Once more to the store, they were quite puzzled that even after replacing the motherboard it would still show the issue.
After doing some tests they decided to reinstall Mavericks. Once installed they found no issue so they decided it was solved.
After this I had to return once again because it turn out that they forgot to connect the keyboard backlight system and it wouldn't light.
Anyway, this time I decided to install only the absolutely necesary apps for my work. I even downloaded the newest versions of all of them (if they had newer). Most of those apps are from the Mac App Store and the ones that are not are absolutely famous and used by thounsands of people, not that I use alphas or betas of any app.
One important detail is that the problem was getting worse. Now every time I started the mac it would be buggy and it was extremely shaky, it was impossible to read while scrolling in Safari now. Sometimes when using exposé/mission control it would even show weird pixels on screen. Every time I had this problem it was worse, more shaky and more often.
Visit #4:
Being already a VIP visitor of the genius bar I went decided to solve the problem once and for all. I told them every detail, they saw the problem and I insisted on the software I had was completely "normal". They told me they would replace the screen, the logic board again and the IO just in case.
So imagine my surprise when I receive a call from the genius who was repairing my machien saying that after reinstalling Mavericks it showed no issue! I was furious. They insisted that it was some app I had installed and that I needed to install one app at a time, wait ONE WEEK and if nothing happens install the next.
They were not kidding aparently. After complaining I had no choice but to take my mac back and....here I am.
So my question (after the diary I've written, sorry) is:
Is this really being caused by an app I have installed? Is really an app capable of crash the entire animation system and only while in the OS UI and not in games? I've never had any app running on the background besides Fantastical (from Appstore) and Dropbox (updated).
I am listing the apps I had last time I resintalled everything:
1. 2Do (appstore)
2. Indesign CC
3. Appcleaner
4. Autocad 2014
5. World of warcraft
6. Dropbox
7. Evernote (appstore)
8. Fantastical (appstore)
9. Keynote, Pages & Numbers (appstore)
10. Pixelmator (appstore)
11. Sketchup 2014
12. Skype
13. Steam
14. The unarchiver
15. Transmission
16. VLC
17. iPhoto
So, 17 apps, which I believe are just a few. Is there any of those apps you think may cause any issue? I haven't installed anything yet. I am using my old macbook pro (which btw have every app I had in the buggy retina with no problem whatsoever) while I try to see if the problem persist while installing nothing.
I still don't believe it is a software problem. Since it appears every time sooner and with more "intensity" I suspect it might be hardware but I am no expert.
Thanks for any help or info you can share!

Go for a few day (2-3) without installing any apps. Then install AutoCAD 2014 first and run only that for another couple of days. See if the problems resurface. If not, go ahead and reinstall all software, making sure that you create a clone after everything's installed (try Carbon Copy Cloner - they have a few 30-day evaluation period, I believe).
If problems resurface, you'll know that it's hardware.
Good luck,
Clinton

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