Are you saying it did NOT occur before 10.14.2 on medium resolution ?
Are you saying that it does NOT occur now on medium resolution ?
Because of my eyesight I needed to run medium resolution and it was definitely occurring there in 10.14.2, 10.14.3 beta 4 and after an Apple tech on the phone had me install the latest firmware.
He said it was a hardware fault and that I should return it (which I did).
I was NOT getting any display flickers prior to 10.14.2 on the resolution 1440x900 scale (I used the computer for over 3 weeks before updating). After updating to 10.14.2, I began getting flickers on that resolution (1440x900) immediately within 5 minutes of normal use. So yes, it does occur now at that "medium" resolution.
However, once I switched to the "Default 1680x1050" resolution a couple of weeks later, I no longer was getting any flickers at all and have not gotten one since. I use my computer for about 10 hours a day for work in GPU intensive programs such as After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator to the basics such as Mail, Safari, Chrome, Sublime Text and such.
I would also like to note that I do NOT use any external monitors. I am simply stating for the case of the internal display included in the MacBook Pro with no external monitors attached ever. I am not sure how the MacBook Pro handles scaling external monitors (my gut is saying it handles it the same as scaling the internal, which is why it is producing the same flicker as a result of the software bug), but want to clarify that I do not use an external monitor for this laptop and never have.
Hey Farfooz,
Funnily enough right after I posted that I got the dreaded flicker on my mac screen at native res (my monitor is fine) while playing music via iTunes.
I seem to get it a lot a lot less at native res and almost never get it when I'm using the laptop without another monitor hooked up - perhaps thats why we get a 50/50 split? I'm guessing a decent amount of people use it in clamshell/alone without a monitor.
Gonna play around with it in 10.14.3 and see what happens - Apple gave me another week or so to do an exchange.
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Did your flickers occur when the mac was attached to the monitor?
I don't use any external monitors unfortunately (nor do I have any at the moment that I could test with), but I was getting it as mentioned earlier in this post reply to Inikj. But I am guessing the software for resolution scaling is affecting them based on your experience, which lines up with everyone else's tale/encounters on this thread! It must be when the computer is doing any resolution scaling to any display, it is going to flicker, which is a software bug, and not a hardware one considering this problem didn't exist until 10.14.2 which I can personally verify as true. I don't imagine the code to be at all different or separate for external display scaling vs internal display scaling, based on what I know and my own experience and how Apple has it configured.
10.14.3 is out today. Anyone notice any improvement after updating?
Waiting a bit before updating to make sure they didn't screw up the default resolution either with software