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Apple Releases Snow Leopard Graphics Update
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Early 2008 Mac Pro+8800GT seems improved
I have an early 2008 Mac Pro with a 8800GT - SCII was crap under 10.6.4 but great under 10.6.3
this update seems to have improved my 10.6.4 performance significantly
Settings were default "high" per the games recommendations -
If not using a Hard Drive with 10.6.3 for game play is only a minor inconvenience... I have 4 bays - and lots of old hard drives lying around...
I have an early 2008 Mac Pro with a 8800GT - SCII was crap under 10.6.4 but great under 10.6.3
this update seems to have improved my 10.6.4 performance significantly
Settings were default "high" per the games recommendations -
If not using a Hard Drive with 10.6.3 for game play is only a minor inconvenience... I have 4 bays - and lots of old hard drives lying around...
Showed up on my Early 2010 Dell Vostro i5-750 Hackintosh. Hope this will fix the sluggishness in FarmVille.
I don't think Farmville nor the GPU is the problem.
I have an identical machine, and from my brief testing this morning High settings (ie. the default) are fine as long as you set shaders to Medium (or even low if you find Medium unsatisfactory).
Testing with SC2 now
I had recently switched to an SSD, and was praying that my 30-second lockups on SC2 weren't due to the SSD (which is doing great otherwise)... even the installer would lockup every once in a while.
I'll have to see if it's going to resolve the issue, or whether I'm still going to have to devote some space to an XP partition to play this game (hooked, alright).
I had recently switched to an SSD, and was praying that my 30-second lockups on SC2 weren't due to the SSD (which is doing great otherwise)... even the installer would lockup every once in a while.
I'll have to see if it's going to resolve the issue, or whether I'm still going to have to devote some space to an XP partition to play this game (hooked, alright).
What? The GPU is working just as hard, the power is just being used more efficiently now.
Just installed on my 2009 MBP.
Before:
After:
I think the graphics update made it worse.
Please tell me how this is worse. You got the same FPS before, and after. Just because it passed GL 3.0 with a 0 FPS you think it got worse.
Im sorry, but if you pass GL with a rate of 0 you did not pass.
I don't think Farmville nor the GPU is the problem.
You're right, it's probably the i5-750. Maybe I should upgrade the processor to an i7-870
Something that I think is important to keep in mind:
GLViewer is not a good benchmark of OpenGL performance. It tells you one thing: how quickly you can draw a bumpmapped cube (or a cube with a fractal shader). This is NOT a good representation of any shipping game or app.
If you really want to know if your performance has improved, you should run Star2 or TF2/HL2 and compare the same settings and the same timedemos/actions.
GLViewer is not a good benchmark of OpenGL performance. It tells you one thing: how quickly you can draw a bumpmapped cube (or a cube with a fractal shader). This is NOT a good representation of any shipping game or app.
If you really want to know if your performance has improved, you should run Star2 or TF2/HL2 and compare the same settings and the same timedemos/actions.
No relief for GTX 285
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...
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...
On my 21.5 2010 imac it has loaded ATI5000Controller.kext which was not there prior to the update!!!
Thank Apple...
The update let me play SC2 on my Late 2006
24" iMac! with the NVIDIA 7600 256M vid system. Of course, a disclaimer, the screen size is not the largest nor at the highest settings, but def. playable! And the graphic quality blows away SC1 in comparison even at SC2 lower settings.
24" iMac! with the NVIDIA 7600 256M vid system. Of course, a disclaimer, the screen size is not the largest nor at the highest settings, but def. playable! And the graphic quality blows away SC1 in comparison even at SC2 lower settings.
Well, I never got to test the graphics part. It installed fine, but my computer would not go to sleep after the fact, even when closed, so I had to restore to 10.6.3. Currently restoring from backup...
Don't worry, that guy is either very misinformed, or kidding. It won't do anything to your GPU's lifespan, except make its useful lifespan longer thanks to better performance.
Apple seems to eliminate any system older than 2 years from further support
Is this true?
bad HDD?
Hey dude, that's possibly a sign of a failing hard drive, make sure you have a backup of your data, then do a SMART and surface scan on the drive. If it's over 2 years old i'd consider ditching it and installing a new one anyway.
Hey dude, that's possibly a sign of a failing hard drive, make sure you have a backup of your data, then do a SMART and surface scan on the drive. If it's over 2 years old i'd consider ditching it and installing a new one anyway.
