Apple update for Games-Snow Leopard Graphics Update

[Narse77]

2010 13 MBP here, I got improvements all across the board. In SC2 I could run medium settings in Windows but in OSX it was unplayable when alot of things were going on(1-5fps) now I can play on medium with shadows disabled in the config files and never drop bellow 20. In Wow it almost doubled my performance in raids and dalaran. I went from dipping to the teens to over 30FPS!!

 

[R94N]

Installed but no games played.

Same. I usually just grab the updates anyway, even if they're not relevant to how I use my computer.

 

[BenXiaoHai]

Just installed the update. There is definitely a performance increase on my mbp. However, Using default medium settings on starcraft 2 will cause the game to run at about 30-40 fps. I'll have to switch off shadows manually in the variables file to make it run at a comfortable 40-50fps, which still suffers a huge dip when I try to scan using terran's command centre. Not sure how it holds with 5 carriers. Also, weirdly, it seems to run at lower fps in the campaign stage I tried, Zero Hour. Not sure why, haven't tried other stages yet.

Overall, its a good start, which gives us hope for future driver updates for performance increases

 

[chaosbunny]

I'm impressed ... I can now play Starcraft 2 at 1440x900, high textures, high terrain, medium shaders on my 512 mb 8600m gt mbp!

 

[BenXiaoHai]

I'm impressed ... I can now play Starcraft 2 at 1440x900, high textures, high terrain, medium shaders on my 512 mb 8600m gt mbp!

what fps are you getting for campaign and online play?

 

[8bitchris]

just my two cents...

I have a 2007 Aluminum iMac 7,1

this update had a noticeable improvement for me on Portal and HL2.

That is all

 

[chaosbunny]

what fps are you getting for campaign and online play?

I don't have exact numbers right now – I can look later. All I know is that it was smooth even when I had 46 Mutalisks destroying the enemy base.

 

[BenXiaoHai]

that's weird, my fps gets choppy (~30) on certain maps, on medium settings and shadows turned off