Are animation effects "choppier" in Leopard than in Tiger?

[itsaka]

Specs: Alum 24" iMac, 256 MB video, 1GB RAM (soon to be 4GB), 2.4 ghz

Overall, the animations in Leopard animate smoothly. However, I have noticed that Spaces, when gliding from one to another, will become choppy for a split second when certain applications are doing whatever task it is doing and is putting the CPU to work.

I have noticed that if an applicatoin is being heavy on the CPU and you trigger Spaces to present four spaces in fullscreen, there is some choppiness to it. When the system is just purring and doing some light Safari, iTunes, Mail, all animations appear to be very smooth.

 

[Wild-Bill]

Choppy on my Powerbook G4 1.5 GHz, 1.25 gigs RAM. I hope they fix it.

 

[23am]

It is smoother now. At least when I have some RAM left.. ;P

 

[evilspoons]

I have noticed the dock sliding in (when you mouse over it with hiding on) seems to be a bit twitchy when it wasn't under Tiger. This is on a 2.2 GHz Santa Rosa MacBook Pro, so it's got the guts needed to make an animation like this smooth.

Window resizing, stacks, etc seem to perform as well as Tiger did, although there seems to be a slight stutter the very first time you switch to a different virtual desktop using spaces.

 

[Foggy]

I find spaces especially is rubbish in terms of jerky animations. Expose is also a bit iffy.

This on a Macbook Pro C2D 2.4 with 2gb RAM.

 

[tvbi]

Exposé is choppy on my MP, everything else seem fine

 

[Killyp]

Stacks can be a bit choppy for me at times, as well as spaces.

I've never managed to get Spaces to animate smoothly when going into all-spaces view. Try activating it and quickly holding down SHIFT, it never works without freezing up completely half way through for at least a quarter of a second. Not an issue as I never use the slow-mo animations, but it's still a 'bug' nonetheless.

 

[Evolve]

I too was experiencing extremely sluggish maximize/minimize on any window, and the occasional stutter using spaces. However, since disabling the 3D dock, I've witnessed a marked improvement on performance. This machine is by no means modern - dual G4 500Mhz with a 9800 Pro AGP graphics card, but after this tweak, it feels much like the responsiveness of Tiger. Open up terminal and type in these commands.

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
killall Dock

To return to the previous dock, repeat the previous commands substituting YES with NO.

 

[Foxglove9]

-Did an Erase & Install
-Have 2GB RAM
-Have 7200RPM Hard Drive with 16MB Cache
-Don't use any major software myself, just EyeTV and Turbo.264

I have that same setup and it is choppy for me. The big culprit seemed to be the 3-D dock, which i don't use anyway. So for the most part all animations are pretty smooth now, depending on what else is going on in the background.

EXCEPT... the mouse curser using my bluetooth mouse. Ugh, it's so choppy I really hope it gets fixed on the next update it's driving me nuts.

 

[mabaker]

I too was experiencing extremely sluggish maximize/minimize on any window, and the occasional stutter using spaces. However, since disabling the 3D dock, I've witnessed a marked improvement on performance. This machine is by no means modern - dual G4 500Mhz with a 9800 Pro AGP graphics card, but after this tweak, it feels much like the responsiveness of Tiger. Open up terminal and type in these commands.

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
killall Dock

To return to the previous dock, repeat the previous commands substituting YES with NO.

Sorry for bumping up the old thread but I have to confirm this 10000 times!

I have just disabled the 3D-Dock and I have to say the difference is STAGGERING truly! Spaces and Expose fly just like they were in Tiger. I'm very happy now actually. Not to mention the new dock looks kinda classy.