Screen Tiling on i5 MBP

[iCRUNCH]

I've had the laptop about a month and get this tiling problem when I stream from ESPN 3 or Pandora, and have Facebook open, have Mail open, and two or three other tabs (forums etc.) I know I'm putting a strain on the graphics, but not sure if this is normal. I have 4 gb ram, should I upgrade or is the graphics card garbage.

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/6117/tiles.png

 

[AdamRock]

http://codykrieger.com/gfxCardStatus

download that and force the mac to use 1 of the graphics cards (try both) and see if its fixed.

 

[Reelknead1]

I've had this happen to me once when i was using GFX but then i got rid of it and it went back to normal and haven't had any issues. It may be just a glitch in the card switching.

 

[iCRUNCH]

Thanks, I downloaded the file and am using the NVIDIA Only setting. We'll see how that works!

 

[AdamRock]

also turn off graphics card switching, if you need less power switch to intel graphics if you need more switch the nvidia...apple should really fix the graphics card switcher :/

 

[Detrius]

That's an exceptionally interesting image. The interesting part to me is that the distortion is happening behind the menu bar, which means it's happening on one software layer and not another. In turn, this means it could theoretically just be a software problem.