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Apple Releases Snow Leopard Graphics Update

locked up

About 5 min after I installed this update my Macbook Pro locked up, I was just listening to music in iTunes. Not sure if the update was the cause but my mac never locks up.
 
AAPLaday said:
Fantastic update it seems!! Lets keep those graphics updates coming and crank up those game frame rates :D That would be one less reason to have to buy Windows for your mac :)
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I dont' buy Windows, I get it freely thanks to the MSDN Academic Alliance :D
 
dter said:
So has anyone else with a GTX 285 gotten absolutely no improvement with the update?

GLview showed essentially no change before/after, and I've still got all of ~25 FPS in Half Life 2. Star Craft II just drags, and eventually tells me to close apps to improve performance (which is ridiculous as it's running by itself, and the autodetect graphics settings are super high).

Not sure what to do other than consider reinstalling from scratch and stopping at 10.6.3...
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With everything set to max im getting 60fps and the quality is amazing at 1900x1200, with v sync off motion blur off and down to 2x anti i was getting 160fps average, but was abit choppy.

Dont know what happened to yours, this update actually improved the performance from the drivers i downloaded from nvidia last week, including the cuda support. It has pushed my update to a previous build, now my cuda window is telling me i need to upgrade it. Definitely not going to! that update was ****!
 
Wow. My 2007 MacBook Pro scores 3.5 times faster than your 2009 13 inch.

I measured at the same resolution as you to double check.

emiljan said:
Just installed on my 2009 MBP.

After:
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I think the graphics update made it worse.
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Works on my old system too

i've got MBP 3.1 C2D 2.2 GHz / 4 Gb ram / 128 VRAM, and i've noticed sometimes i need an upgrade after moving to 10.6.
So now i wonder if i need one, or at least if i need an Core i5/i7 system мы C2D 13" MBP :)
 
Does someone know if this update will also fix the random kernel panics that some had with their MID-2010 Macbook Pro's??
 
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All i know is my 15" i5 2.4GHz MBP could not play Starcraft 2 on High settings.... which is what SC2 even suggested i have my settings set to. After the update High runs seamlessly. I was getting very frustrated before, I am EXTREMELY happy now that it runs so well. Just ordered an 8GB Memory kit as well... my baby's about to be screamin. :D:D:D
 
forced Vsync

To all of you doing before/after comparisons on Valve games and Nvidia GPUs... you may not know that Vsync was forced on 10.6.4, due to stuttering issues with Nvidia cards (even if Vsync was disabled on the advanced video options panel).
The latest updates from Steam has disabled the forced Vsync, since it's no longer needed

So this may explain why you were having fps capped to 29 or 59 in 10.6.4 before this update. The performance improvement on Valve games may not be as huge as you may think.

There are however, huge improvements on radeonHD series (for which Vsync wasn't forced).
 
daneoni said:
Now this is something you don't see often from Apple...GPU driver updates.
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They usually ship with OS updates. This time, they wanted everyone to know they fixed performance issues. That's a good sign, but it also shows that Apple/GPU vendors can do much more, only if they want do.
 
jeanlain said:
To all of you doing before/after comparisons on Valve games and Nvidia GPUs... you may not know that Vsync was forced on 10.6.4, due to stuttering issues with Nvidia cards (even if Vsync was disabled on the advanced video options panel).
The latest updates from Steam has disabled the forced Vsync, since it's no longer needed

So this may explain why you were having fps capped to 29 or 59 in 10.6.4 before this update. The performance improvement on Valve games may not be as huge as you may think.

There are however, huge improvements on radeonHD series (for which Vsync wasn't forced).
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Well I have been using VSync since day 1, and this update did improve TeamFortress 2's frame rates (with VSync still enabled of course).

Good to know about the VSync being on by default though. Wasn't aware of that.
 
Just installed on my 17" mid-2010 MBP. However, even after the update my MBP continue to have problems with the Intel HD GPU (just had another kernel panic while watching Youtube.) I wonder if it's REALLY an hardware problem or it's just related to the GPU-switch thing.
 
jeanlain said:
They usually ship with OS updates. This time, they wanted everyone to know they fixed performance issues. That's a good sign, but it also shows that Apple/GPU vendors can do much more, only if they want do.
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Gaming on Macs suck because Apple won't let anyone except Apple release new graphics drivers. $2000+ for an i7 machine that can't even play SC2 with decent fps is a joke.
 
Master Chief said:
So you didn't noticed a changed GPU temperature? Weird :confused:
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Whys he supposed to see a GPU change? Do you even have the slightest clue of what you're talking about? I'm looking at my GPU temperature right now it is hovering around 43 Degrees Celsius without any problems - is probably actually running a lot more efficiently with the new drivers - my performance has doubled btw compared to my old benchmarks.
 
wrldwzrd89 said:
Downloaded and installed. Rebooted. YAY, no more garbled image if my external display gets accidentally disconnected! Thanks, Apple! :D
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What did this corruption look like?

Was this the green and purple "shading" I was seeing on my 30"?

Maury
 
Why should apple change its software for the 0.05% of users who use these games? Sounds to me like the games should change theirs.
 
I didn't expect to see improvements like this. Very pleased.

[ATI Radeon HD 4870]

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mattwolfmatt said:
Why should apple change its software for the 0.05% of users who use these games? Sounds to me like the games should change theirs.
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Because a game programmer can't workaround already subpar drivers. The GPU driver providers optimize for game engines instead, its been like that for years on any platform.

You should be happy, this 0.5% of users means that you get better Core Image performance for nothing.
 
I tested my Penryn Macbook Pro with the 8800 GT with TF2. Pre graphics update i got 30 FPS on 2MSAA and 2AF. Post update i saw about 40 to 45 frames on the same settings.

So all and all update win!
 
mattwolfmatt said:
Why should apple change its software for the 0.05% of users who use these games? Sounds to me like the games should change theirs.
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Well its a sign of the times that apple is getting serious about gaming on the mac. Steam coming to mac was a BIG deal and the level of support that valve is putting behind it to is also a big deal.

Here is to hoping we might actually start seeing some better GPU's in macs. They are getting there but i am going to wait until 28/32nm dies before I update my macbook pro to the unibody.
 
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