Install the update without resolve, good sir. Apple silently increased the time span for GPU-related issues from 3 years to 4 years a number of months ago
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Apple Releases Snow Leopard Graphics Update
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Install the update without resolve, good sir. Apple silently increased the time span for GPU-related issues from 3 years to 4 years a number of months ago
I've no idea how much you know about computing, and I'm not much interested in teaching you. But the basics are
(a) is the problem HW or SW? If it's HW you're screwed. I assume you have a Time Machine backup. (If not, well, seriously, the world cannot protect the truly stupid from themselves. In that case, while trying to grab what you can from the bad drive, the key is to keep the drive as cool as possible. Pack it with the sort of cool pads you put on sports injuries while you try to pull data off it (using common sense --- put the cool packs in a thick towel so you don't form condensation on electronics).
(b) If the problem is SW, the quick fix is, of course, try to use Disk Utility. If that fails, you try Disk Warrior. If the problem really IS catalog tree corruption (as opposed to broken hardware or some other weirdness) Disk Warrior is your best bet. It will try to reconstruct all the HFS data structures as best it can, and rewrite them to the disk.
(c) It's hard to believe OS X (and particularly the update) were responsible for the problem you claim. God knows OS X is not perfect --- I've reported my share of kernel crashes in my time, and there are plenty of lesser bugs in the system. But through all that, the file system has been bulletproof in my experience. If you are interested in a decent computing experience (rather than venting and ranting) I think you'd do well to try to figure out what is REALLY causing your problems. Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness and all that...
Just updated, and SC2 on my MBP 2010 13" (w/Vertex2 SSD) is now rocking medium settings fine (had set med-low previously for performance). Might even try med-high, but I'm more worried about improving my SC2 skilz (rusty).
The update still doesn't fix the laggy dashboard on the 320M. They had it perfect in 10.6.3 but screwed it in 10.6.4.....dissapointing!
2007 Macbook Pro
Gosh, I still can't connect my 30" LCD to my 2007 Macbook Pro with the GeForce 8600M GT graphics card running at 2048x1280. I wonder when Apple will decide to fix their OS??????? Ghetto.
Gosh, I still can't connect my 30" LCD to my 2007 Macbook Pro with the GeForce 8600M GT graphics card running at 2048x1280. I wonder when Apple will decide to fix their OS??????? Ghetto.
Does it prevent my mouse from skipping, when i have a dvi-monitor connected?! No, it doesn't...
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=10863579
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=10863579
OpenGL 3.x support for the 9400m isn't a limitation of the hardware.
Apple hasn't released their OpenGL 3.x stack yet.
Stuff does feel a bit snappier. Just played tomb raider anniversary demo and it played waaayyy better. Kudos Apple. COD4 plays good too!
Same here, it's still bloody awful. It did dramatically improve performance on my 2 year old iMac though. Hopefully they'll get around to fixing or improving the 9400M drivers soon.
In true MacRumors' Forum-style, I have to say that my 2007 MacBook does seem a little smoother to use after this update. Before installing it, I was seeing glitches on my second screen - hopefully that's been fixed - haven't seen it since the update - yet.
Oddly, the MB also seemed to boot-up a little quicker too... Probably just my imagination!
Oddly, the MB also seemed to boot-up a little quicker too... Probably just my imagination!
After installing the iMac update, the pre-release of the SLGU and now the 1.0 version of SLGU I had no difference in GLview, but Portal and Halflife 2 won't boot anymore after the SLGU 1.0 update. They did for the pre-release. And this is a rock solid bulletproof system I have running here, everything boots! WTF!?
Valve Responds
Valve has responded to the Apple Software Update with a very nice and "non-nerd-friendly" example of one of the things fixed with the update from apple.
its got quite a few technical details, an explanation of some hardcore Graphics rendering and a video
the article from valve can be found here: http://store.steampowered.com/news/4211/
IMO a really interesting read, wich i would love to see on the MacRumors Front page
Valve has responded to the Apple Software Update with a very nice and "non-nerd-friendly" example of one of the things fixed with the update from apple.
its got quite a few technical details, an explanation of some hardcore Graphics rendering and a video
the article from valve can be found here: http://store.steampowered.com/news/4211/
IMO a really interesting read, wich i would love to see on the MacRumors Front page
Only played a few games of Starcraft 2 but seems to be running much smoother on my 2010 13' MBP! Rocking most of the settings on medium without a hiccup!
It installed on my 2008 MacPro and on a quick test It seems the GT8800 graphics card fan is a little quieter than it was before (when running graphics intensive stuff).
On my 08 Mac Pro with 8800GT TF2 has gone from 40-50fps at med-high settings, 0AA/8AF to up around 200fps, with vsync off of course.
It's now quite playable with the settings toped out, except motion blur, 4AA/16AF, with the fps fixed at vsync 90% of the time, dipping to 40fps only when there is 8+ players on screen.
Most impressive! pretty much matches Windows.
CSS is better still, went from playable at mostly high settings 0xAA/8xAF to having everything maxed and even on a 50 slot server the fps doesn't drop below vsync, lovely stuff.
I'm eager to try out wow, but the EU servers are down at the moment...
It'll also be interesting to see what it does for games like Settlers7 with it being a Cider port.
I had been thinking about getting one of the new ATi cards, now I'm not so sure
It's now quite playable with the settings toped out, except motion blur, 4AA/16AF, with the fps fixed at vsync 90% of the time, dipping to 40fps only when there is 8+ players on screen.
Most impressive! pretty much matches Windows.
CSS is better still, went from playable at mostly high settings 0xAA/8xAF to having everything maxed and even on a 50 slot server the fps doesn't drop below vsync, lovely stuff.
I'm eager to try out wow, but the EU servers are down at the moment...
It'll also be interesting to see what it does for games like Settlers7 with it being a Cider port.
I had been thinking about getting one of the new ATi cards, now I'm not so sure
Fantastic update it seems!! Lets keep those graphics updates coming and crank up those game frame rates That would be one less reason to have to buy Windows for your mac
That would be one less reason to have to buy Windows for your mac 
Wow, I don't have any exact numbers to prove it but Team Fortress 2 has improved massively. SO much smoother.
Running on a 8600M GT (512 MB of VRAM).
Running on a 8600M GT (512 MB of VRAM).