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Apple Seeds Fifth OS X El Capitan Beta to Developers

With the pace of these builds I'm wondering if we'll see an earlier than usual public release. Maybe September?
 
I would be very curious to see a report on video frame rates when playing back H.264 content through Movist on a 2015 Retina MacBook. There's a considerable amount of resizing going on there and that means a considerable hit on frame rates. Movist playback slows down to about 18fps when I watch something with a lot of motion, like Deadliest Catch, on the MacBook with desktop set to 1440 x 900. And that is nearly unwatchable. I was really surprised by this. Hopefully El Capitan's performance improvements will result in smoother video playback.
 
I was also having issues with Bluetooth but deleting the preference file and doing a reboot fixed it for me as well. If anyone else experiences this, hopefully that will help.
 
I hope this addresses the issue with copy and paste, funky stuff with opening image files using the preview app (image won't display at all). Also vmware fusion requires a reboot of the Mac if you pause the VM and close the application then try to resume the VM and use it again without a reboot won't work give you a funky error.

-Mike
 
I'm still unable to view a pdf file from mail to preview. If I click on the email with the attachment, then click the pdf attachment, I get the animation of it opening, but then just a blank shell. Have to force quit preview to move on. Surprised that this carried over from 4 to 5
 
i get the beach ball spinner all the time nowadays, mostly when it needs to spin up my external hd but also when it is already spun up. It seems to take much longer to spin things up in general for example my external drive used to spin up with under a second of beach ball whereas now it takes a good 10 sec.
 
I have a feeling they have a ton of data gathering turned on and most of the deep optimizations disabled at the moment while beta testing this stuff out to gather more info. I think we will see a large performance boosts once we get a few more betas into this and they start turning off all the data gathering and enabling full optimizations.
 
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Not that I've seen. I normally use the developer link. Unless this is combined with the App Store version.
 
groovyd said:
I have a feeling they have a ton of data gathering turned on and most of the deep optimizations disabled at the moment while beta testing this stuff out to gather more info. I think we will see a large performance boosts once we get a few more betas into this and they start turning off all the data gathering and enabling full optimizations.
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Yeah. I suppose you at least know something about development :D
 
Gene Steinberg said:
Not that I've seen.
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You don't "see" it separately in the mac app store. If you use the mac app store, it downloads simultaneously with the os x update.

If you use the direct links, replace OSXUpd10.11.pkg with FirmwareUpdate.pkg in the same directory to get the firmware update.
 
Norbs12 said:
I actually really notice a big improvement in gaming performance in El Capitan vs Yosemite thanks to metal. Very solid so far.
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There's a pretty generous speed bump in Dolphin GC/Wii emulation, for sure. That's all the gaming I do on my MB, but it was obvious from the first Dev. Beta.
 
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Tearing off tabs in Safari still results in a broken window. Too early to tell if they've fixed any loading issues (particularly with Facebook and Google).
 
lloyddean said:
The graphics underpinnings are being moved from OpenGL to Metal with a fallback on platforms that don't have the hardware to support it it.

So it's entirely possible for games to feel faster.
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As stated earlier, games need to be updated to support Metal. Any performance improvements noticed so far are probably due to updated graphics drivers.
 
groovyd said:
I have a feeling they have a ton of data gathering turned on and most of the deep optimizations disabled at the moment while beta testing this stuff out to gather more info. I think we will see a large performance boosts once we get a few more betas into this and they start turning off all the data gathering and enabling full optimizations.
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Yeah, wait for build 4K78 with the debug symbols removed. ;)
 
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