
Yersterday I went to the Palo Alto Store and got my Macbook Pro Retina checked at the genius bar. Ok, let me add my experience to this annoying issue. Hopefully this helps others with bad graphics performance on retina MacBook Pros.įor anyone that wants to check out the problematic plists from my rMBP, here are the files: Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys before the gray screen appears.You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4. Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command (⌘), Option, P, and R.

Delete all files that start with (On my rMBP, there was one file called .12AFB147-95D6-5C70-8F62-C1E4F2BE81BE).Step 2: Delete user windowserver preferences In the Finder, from the menu bar, select "Go -> Go to Folder.".Step 1: Delete system windowserver preferences The directions in that post are a little hard to understand so I cleaned them up here: Now my rMBP has silky smooth graphics again! I searched all over various forums and tried everything: resetting SCM, manually selecting discrete/integrated graphics card, deleting graphics kexts, etc. My retina MacBook Pro has had terrible graphics performance problems for a couple of weeks.
