Did the 10.6.4 Update improve graphics performance for you?

[pineapple216]

I was wondering, did the 10.6.4 update improve graphics performance in games and/or watching movies, or other graphics intense applications?

I myself notice a small performance improvement in Team Fortress 2

Please vote here, and tell in which apps notice an improve or decrease in performance

 

[iBunny]

Havent played any games yet, but defiantly notice that the OSX GUI is much more fluid.

 

[stuarthatto]

Your poll doesnt seem to allow for the choice, No, the graphics performance is the same...

I haven noticed any improvement, or lack thereof, and I didnt see in the release notes that it would...

 

[marve619]

i did notice a slight increase in my fps when i play TF2, BUT!!!!! it made me look really jumpy and when i look at my net_graph 1 where it says "In:" it spikes up to 1000-2000. it is usually around 100-300 before the update and everything in the game ran smoothly not its just irritating

PLS HELP IF YOU CAN!

 

[pineapple216]

i did notice a slight increase in my fps when i play TF2, BUT!!!!! it made me look really jumpy and when i look at my net_graph 1 where it says "In:" it spikes up to 1000-2000. it is usually around 100-300 before the update and everything in the game ran smoothly not its just irritating

PLS HELP IF YOU CAN!

I must say, that I noticed the same this afternoon. The game also runs jumpy on my MacBook. The point is, I don't know if it's caused by the server, or my internet connection, which is quite fast (10 MB up, 6 MB down).
Or that it's caused by the game.

If it's the second one than, hopefully Valve will release an update soon, to address the problem.

 

[aimbdd]

aha. steam warns you not to instal 10.6.4 untill apple fixes the graphics drivers. if you play video games DONT INSTALL 10.6.4!!!

 

[gguerini]

aha. steam warns you not to instal 10.6.4 untill apple fixes the graphics drivers. if you play video games DONT INSTALL 10.6.4!!!

yeah.. I only read this warning after I updated my mac.. sucks!

and my safari 5 crashes 10x a day... I gave up and I'm back to chrome now.
very disappointed.

 

[JonBorichef]

This may be the reason when I play Halo, after about 45 seconds my fan speeds sky rocket to 4500 RPM... darn... shouldn't have upgraded.

 

[aiqw9182]

Looks like those that got hit with a performance decrease are using NVIDIA GPU's. No noticeable difference between 10.6.3 and 10.6.4 on my two machines(4850 and X1600).

For those having problems I suggest doing the following:
Open Steam > Go to game library > select details view > right click any source game > select properties > set launch options and add the following line

+gl_bufmode 1 +gl_texclientstorage 1

This will also increase ATI performance, but not as big as it will help NVIDIA performance.

 

[derekamoss]

I havent tried playing any steam games since the update bit I do know WOW improved a little for me with the update.

 

[Ace134blue]

i did notice a slight increase in my fps when i play TF2, BUT!!!!! it made me look really jumpy and when i look at my net_graph 1 where it says "In:" it spikes up to 1000-2000. it is usually around 100-300 before the update and everything in the game ran smoothly not its just irritating

PLS HELP IF YOU CAN!

I can help. Make an "autoexec.cfg" and put it in the cfg folder under the "tf" folder. Put these commands in it.
rate "50000"
cl_rate "50000"
cl_updaterate "40"
cl_cmdrate "40"
cl_forcepreload "1"
sv_forcepreload "1"

Or you could put these under the target launch options. Example +rate "50000"

 

[Ace134blue]

If anyone needs some perf improvements just ask for my cfg file.