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2011 MacBook Pro Freezing under load

Also watching video's in quicktime, VLC and itunes the machine is MUCH cooler now!

before after a few mins you could not touch the bottom of the MPB now its it bearly warm! :D
 
OK applied 10.67 and ran http://webglsamples.googlecode.com/hg/aquarium/aquarium.html

for 15 minutes without crashing on I and D.

Now D is 60fps (twice as Fast as with 10.66)
and I is 15fps (half as fast as with 10.66)

I'm running handbrake, full brightness, that 1000 googlecode fish thing, Istat pro, a 1080P movie, running backup to a second internal drive and so far no crashes.

Also my GPU is 78C and I've never seen it this hot without crashing. So it looks good.

Battery at 94% Estimated before empty 1:15. 100% CPU+GPU.

All GOOD! Apple Fixed the GPU crashing!!
Charger load is so great that the battery cant charge but who cares.

Two thumbs up for APPLE!!! 10.67 fixed the problem
 
Could you guys check the activity monitor (CPU %) while playing a 1080p
.MOV clip with the VLC Media Player?
What results are you getting?
 
amoergosum said:
Could you guys check the activity monitor (CPU %) while playing a 1080p
.MOV clip with the VLC Media Player?
What results are you getting?
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100% Pegged on all 8 threads when I did "all" the tests above and I was using VLC.

Just running a 1080P VLC movie hardly budges the CPU See the first screen shot:

Also Geekbench is faster now!
 

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i Use menumeters to check the cpu load , that says about 6% usage playing a 1080p clip in VLC player.
 
I did the terminal thingy + iMovie import + lost episode on external display + photo booth with fancy effects. No issues so far. Thumbs up Apple!
 
Technologist said:
100% Pegged on all 8 threads when I did "all" the tests above and I was using VLC.

Just running a 1080P VLC movie hardly budges the CPU See the first screen shot:

Also Geekbench is faster now!
Click to expand...

Man...this is driving me mad.
I play a Quicktime 1080p MOV file [with H.264/MPEG-4 (Base Profile @ L5) ]
(that's a file from the Canon 5D MKII) and my activity monitor shows
around 110% (VLC Media Player).
Whyyyyyyyy?
 
The 10.6.7 update seems to solve this for the vast majority of users. Please note that the Chrome WebGL test is not stable after the update but this is likely due to issues with that specific WebGL application (it warns it can freeze your GPU).

I have not been able to replicate any crashing since the update.
 
amoergosum said:
Man...this is driving me mad.
I play a Quicktime 1080p MOV file [with H.264/MPEG-4 (Base Profile @ L5) ]
(that's a file from the Canon 5D MKII) and my activity monitor shows
around 110% (VLC Media Player).
Whyyyyyyyy?
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At a guess because it's very high bitrate, and possibly higher profile, it's not just resolution that matters, both the profile used and bitrate have a huge effect on how hard it is to decode.
 
amoergosum said:
Ok...let's use the same file and run it with the latest VLC Media Player.
Here's an HD trailer >>>
http://www.dvdloc8.com/clip.php?movieid=12954&clipid=1

What are your activity monitor results?
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Using that file, I'd say the average CPU usage was around 30% for me, varying anywhere from 20-36%ish on 2.2ghz quad 2011 MBP.

For further comparison, that's only an 7.5mbit file. using a 50mbit 1080p file, VLC uses more like 110%.
 
iMacDragon said:
Using that file, I'd say the average CPU usage was around 30% for me, varying anywhere from 20-36%ish on 2.2ghz quad 2011 MBP.
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Thanks.
The average CPU usage for me was around 35% for me, varying anywhere between 26-42% (2.2Ghz 2011 MBP, 500GB 7200 rpm hard drive).
 
amoergosum said:
Thanks.
The average CPU usage for me was around 35% for me, varying anywhere between 26-42% (2.2Ghz 2011 MBP, 500GB 7200 rpm hard drive).
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are you using 32 or 64bit vlc? it might make a difference, I believe default download is still 32bit, I'm on 64bit.
edit: scratch that, checked and download is universal nowadays. wonder why your's is slightly higher then, or it might just be that I missed spiking over 40.
 
iMacDragon said:
are you using 32 or 64bit vlc? it might make a difference, I believe default download is still 32bit, I'm on 64bit.
edit: scratch that, checked and download is universal nowadays. wonder why your's is slightly higher then, or it might just be that I missed spiking over 40.
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I'm using the 64bit version.
 
long time lurker here - i've been saving money to buy the 13" i5 mbp and am a bit scared with all the problems happening. is the 13" i5 mbp also freezing all the time? hope to hear from you, it's taken me months to save. thanks!
 
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