Board Thread:Troubleshooting/@comment-28829111-20160731224938/@comment-28829111-20160804060136

My son and I have gotten to the bottom of the crashes. Apple laptops have two GPUs - one on the CPU chip and one standalone chip. Theoretically the two GPUs can hand off graphics to each other and have been able to do so up until El Capitan. Most apps run on the "lower level" GPU on the CPU - things like the calculator, your time, etc... Seeker Notes App leads Apple computers to believe that it can too. But in reality it needs the higher level GPU to process some of the new graphics in the app. When El Capitan OSX tries to pass off some graphic tasks it crashes from the communication b/w the chips.

FIX: if you have a MBP running OSX 10.11.X and your comfy crashes with some applications that need more graphic oomph - Go to System Pref>Energy Saver Tick the box "Higher Performance" You will have to Login again for the change to set in

YOu should be good to go. This tells the MBP to always use the higher level graphic processor. Voila - no crashes.