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League of Legends performance worse on OS X
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Sadly, 100º seems common. My MBP hovers at 40º while idle, and my MBP has often gotten too hot and throttled itself playing D3.
The difference, as I'm sure you know, is the video card. The intel 4000 is pretty craptacular. Even the new drivers for it, which can increase your frame rate by up to 20%, only increase it by 20% of crap. Plus the air has a slower CPU, less memory that it has to share with the GPU...
3.2 is supported at 70% with my GT 650M. The latest version to be 100% supported is 2.1. Results are similar with integrated graphics.
NVIDIA's website says all GT400/500/600 series should support OpenGL 4, while OS X doesn't support it at all after what, 3 years? So there's that.
Hopefully that's something to look forward to in OS X 10.9. Even Intel graphics would benefit from it.
+1 i hope that too. You all know they are working on wifi and graphic drivers for 10.8.4
Someone who appears to have either a Hackintosh or a modified Mac Pro along with an AMD Radeon HD7970 gained support for an OpenGL 4.1 extension (ARB_separate_shader_objects) with 10.8.3, along with full 3.2 support, so there's hope.
Please stop spreading misinformation! Mountain Lion fully supports OpenGL 3.2!
OpenGL has two API profiles - the old compatibility profile and the newer 'core' profile which provides cleaned-up API. The 3.2 is supported as part of the core profile, as will be all the future GL versions. Apple also provides a list of GPU capabilities exposed under OpenGL API: https://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging/opengl/capabilities/
And besides, the GL version number has fairly little to do with the performance, unless we are talking about certain demanding graphical techniques.
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That extension is supported under every GPU which is capable of running ML, save for the HD3000
More like incomplete information than misinformation. All I said was correct, I simply didn't mention which profile I was talking about, but you could have figured that one out from my screenshot.
But thanks for pointing the profile thing out, I assumed the default profile OpenGL Extension Viewer used was the relevant one, as presumably did several people who I've read say ML only supports 70% of OpenGL 3.2. I didn't catch the second image I posted (not from me) had the Core profile selected.
If I choose the Core profile I do get the same result with 100% 3.2 support:
Remove the option to wait for Vertical Sync. I have had problems with unstable FPS, specially at TF's. Removing it helped a lot.
Now it runs between 76-84 FPS.
