How to disable 3D acceleration on the Mac Book Air? I have a Mac Book Air 2010 with an NVidia GeForce 320M chip. When I use Xcode 6 in the View Debugging tool (a 3D interface that allows debugging the view hierarchy of an app),  the computer crashes and then reports an error with GPU driver (similar bug reported here).

One solution might be to disable the 3D acceleration with a utility called gfxCardStatus. Unfortunately, this solution does not work for the Mac Book Air. Is there any other method to tweak the graphic driver?

Many thanks!
One way of disabling your graphics is safe mode. I don't know if your xcode debug tool will run in safe mode but unless you know otherwise, I think it's worth a shot. good luck

OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?


  Safe Mode in Mac OS X v10.5 or later also disables Quartz Extreme (hardware accelerated graphics). Applications that depend on Quartz Extreme do not open in Safe Mode, and the Mac OS X menu bar will appear solid even if "Translucent Menu Bar" is enabled in Desktop &amp; Screen Saver preferences.