how about a graphics fix that makes safari function half as well as it did years ago... ugh so damn sluggish and glitchy these days
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Apple Seeds 'Snow Leopard Graphics Update' to Developers
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oh this is so overdue it's ridiculous, let's hope for a quick release! steam games, WoW, starcraft 2, all runs terribly in mac os x
Although that is completely true, since the 9400M is quite old already I think that there is not that much room for improvement in terms of drivers, or at least not as much as there might be with the new nvidias (320M, 330M) and the "new" ATIs (4850, 5760, etc).
Or convince them they're holding it wrong? Sorry.
That breakdown of GPUs on Steam is interesting. So the older design MBPs like mine with the 8600 are still big players lol, good to know
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In any case Apple seems to be catching up (slowly but non stop) with games both on a software level (drivers and so on) and on a hardware level (today all macs ship with more than decent graphic adapters).
Let's hope they keep this direction and that also developers take the platform more into consideration. This should also be an interesting "push" to the OpenGL community in general.
Let's hope they keep this direction and that also developers take the platform more into consideration. This should also be an interesting "push" to the OpenGL community in general.
I hope this somehow fixes the issue's thousands of us 24" late 2006 iMac owners had with their graphics cards... But I doubt it. The machines probably have a hardware issue.
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To be honest I believe that's a hardware issue with the GPU's soldering or heat. It only bothers me in the summer with more common video crashes but gargled graphics seem to persist year round.
Great - does this mean my ridiculously expensive Photoshop CS5 software will now actually work properly in 64-bit mode without crashing constantly?
10.6.4 broke the graphics support for CS5 so badly that Adobe have issued a support note that effectively says: "We're waiting for Apple to fix this."
10.6.4 broke the graphics support for CS5 so badly that Adobe have issued a support note that effectively says: "We're waiting for Apple to fix this."
Apple has already released better drivers for some video chips.
Over at barefeats.com Rob-ART booted a 2009 iMac using a clone of his new 2010 iMac hard drive. Many game scores were significantly better.
http://barefeats.com/imac10g.html
Hopefully this new graphics package improves results for both ATI and nVidia based machines.
Over at barefeats.com Rob-ART booted a 2009 iMac using a clone of his new 2010 iMac hard drive. Many game scores were significantly better.
http://barefeats.com/imac10g.html
Hopefully this new graphics package improves results for both ATI and nVidia based machines.
Really? I seem to have been lucky again. I've been blissfully unaware of any issues running CS5 here. On a 9600m MBP and a 8800GS iMac, with GPU enhancements set to max. I'd like to think new GPU drivers will speed up CS5 but I don't think thats one of the bottlenecks I get. :/
Really looking forward to possible speed increases in TF2 et al though!
Hopefully this fixes the hard system freezes I'm getting in TF2 on an nvidia iMac
Had to downgrade back to .3 from .4, but now I'm back to super-crappy stuttery performance
Had to downgrade back to .3 from .4, but now I'm back to super-crappy stuttery performance
Ahh, I'm on 9400M MBP (with 8GB RAM). I know it's not the latest GPU but it ain't exactly ancient! And it worked just fine until 10.6.4. Fingers crossed anyway!
It is already out....
All;
I installed this last night and it was a huge breakthru for me.
This is easily available;
-download mid 2010 iMac update.
-use pacifist to extract.
Performance;
Big improvement at 2560x1440;
Framerates went from 700-800fps OpenGL to 1200+
All;
I installed this last night and it was a huge breakthru for me.
This is easily available;
-download mid 2010 iMac update.
-use pacifist to extract.
Performance;
Big improvement at 2560x1440;
Framerates went from 700-800fps OpenGL to 1200+
There's no soldering on my model - the Geforce 7600 is an MXM replaceble card. But I find it pointless to replace one defective unit with another one costing 300$ that'll probably have the same issues soon enough.
It actually started while I still had AppleCare, but I blamed it on bad drivers for Snow Leopard, never thought it was actually the hardware. When it got to constant lines, dots, kernel panics, it was too late. I talked to Apple and they want a 1000$. No thanks.
Very disappointing.
For folks wondering about better "graphics drivers".
This update is OpenGL based so in a way it improves almost all graphics cards.
This update is OpenGL based so in a way it improves almost all graphics cards.
