Mid 2012 retina gfxcardstatus driver#
Mid 2012 retina gfxcardstatus mac#

I have the AMD Radeon 6490 M/Intel HD 3000 on El Capitan. Maybe gfxCardStatus set in integrated only is in conflict when the Energy Prefs setting is set to High Performance, which forces it to switch to discrete graphics whenever a graphics intensive app is launched. I'm not a programmer though I did a little bit of coding back then), so I have no idea if that is significant. Earlier on, I do switch that to 'Better Batter Life' each time I switch to integrated, and when I did a few minutes ago, while writing this, I was able to launch and create a new document in Illustrator. While browsing the issues here again for the nth time, I saw one of your comments about fiddling with the Energy Preferences setting. I didn't have projects anyway, so it's not so much an issue, except if I really needed to use Illustrator or Photoshop to do a quick graphic.

Then, I realized I can't launch any Adobe application without the computer freezing, so I was forced to just use the MBP for browsing and watching videos. Right now, whenever I'm forced to restart (and it's taking quite longer each time I have to), I'll just launch 2.3 and switch to integrated without a hitch. I also uninstalled Steve's versions, then reinstalled 2.3, without having it launch at login. I kind of figured Battery Helper, which starts up during login, might be a factor, so I uninstalled it. Simply clicking to switch the GPU freezes everything. I tried both versions of fork/fix, but, that didn't work at all. I've had this issue of switching to discrete first, then only to integrated the second time round, and then sometimes, it will switch to integrated right away, but, the MBP will hang, forcing me to do a hard-restart. I found your fix, tried it, and it worked every now and then. Then it was really bad, since I couldn't start the MBP up at all.Ī couple of months ago, it started giving out again, even though the AHT didn't register anything wrong with the hardware, I was sure it's the same graphics card issue. There is a chance that it would keep working for a few years more, which is just enough.Īnd yes, Apple My MBP Early 2011 has had its logic board replaced before the program expired in 2016.

I don't have to reboot too often - just close the lid and don't update.Ĭhances are, it would still brick soon, but it's something I wanted to try before putting it in the dump.

even if the GPU breaks again, cpu would be able to boot up and then gpu-switch would switch to integrated-only.with the discrete GPU disabled, the CPU will not generate enough heat to make the GPU relapse.I've used gpu-switch to execute it on startup (from crontab). Once you get up and running, disable the discrete GPU and don't reboot.

This would make it come back to life for a bit more (note, everyone agrees this is a temporary hack only). While there, also re-greased the cpu + gpu with a proper arctic silver thermal grease. Mine also didn't even get past the apple logo, but I tried the idea on the net where you disassemble the logic board and apply 120-160 celsius degrees temperatures with a heat gun.

Mid 2012 retina gfxcardstatus mac#

If I can fix it, I MIGHT buy another mac product, but I'd hate to get caught in this kind of a lurch again just because I don't shell out enough money for Apple when they screw up. So now I'm using the discrete chip with slow graphics, and I don't know if I can even USE the integrated chip. Thanks Apple for locking me out of my machine completely.).

Mid 2012 retina gfxcardstatus driver#

I don't know if that's because I had to move the driver (after going to target disk mode and using my wife's Mac because Sierra won't let you move any files if you can't boot into Recovery mode, which I couldn't, to turn off rootless. At any rate, I can't get v2.3 to switch to integrated graphics as it continues to claim I'm using an external monitor. If their 'vintage' (yeah, that's the term they use) macs can't be replaced with anything comparable, don't know what else to do. And, worse yet, Apple won't fix it claiming they no longer have the parts to do so (possibly true, but who knows the truth but them), or offer any kind of monetary settlement to fix anything like the program offered people who attempted to fix it prior to their program. Yeah, I pretty much had the same thing happen.