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One More Build of Mac OS X 10.6.3 Seeded to Developers

flopticalcube said:
More proof that senility hasn't set in just yet. Thanks. :)

I'm sticking to 10.5.8 on the iMac until the issue is resolved or senility does set in.
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Safari and Get Info are the biggest culprits. I'm not at the machine right now but the issues appear as a lack of displayed graphics (white out or no objects in the window) or a general mass of garbled lines at a 45 degree angle.
 
Eidorian said:
It's the drivers in Snow Leopard. Hopefully 10.6.3 is going resolve the issue. It does not occur under Leopard or under Windows XP.

I'm not the only one.
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flopticalcube said:
On my GMA950 mini, 10.6.2 is fine with a few small exceptions. On my X1600 iMac, the graphical glitches are annoying to the point of making it unusable. Since the iMac is perfectly fine under 10.4.11, 10.5.8 and Windows 7, Snow Leopard must be to blame.
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I have both an iMac with the x1600 and a MacBook with the X3100 and experience no graphical issues.

Not saying that it doesn't happen because it obviously does but looking through the screenshots linked in the other thread there are a lot of addons that people appear to be running. It seems like it could well be a conflict with other software than straight up Snow Leopard otherwise there would be a lot more posts about the issue here and Apple would've released an update quicker.

Does this happen with a completely virgin Snow Leopard install?
 
xUKHCx said:
I have both an iMac with the x1600 and a MacBook with the X3100 and experience no graphical issues.

Not saying that it doesn't happen because it obviously does but looking through the screenshots linked in the other thread there are a lot of addons that people appear to be running. It seems like it could well be a conflict with other software than straight up Snow Leopard otherwise there would be a lot more posts about the issue here and Apple would've released an update quicker.

Does this happen with a completely virgin Snow Leopard install?
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Yeah, add-ons and 3rd party plugins that "hack" the system in a way that OS X doesn't "like" (for lack of better words) can cause issues. I don't install that crap, thus I rarely have any of these major issues people appear to be having.
 
csalm87 said:
Yeah, add-ons and 3rd party plugins that "hack" the system in a way that OS X doesn't "like" (for lack of better words) can cause issues. I don't install that crap, thus I rarely have any of these major issues people appear to be having.
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Please stop talking until you got experience with older hardware + 10.6! :mad:
 
xUKHCx said:
I've just followed this video on my iMac and with all of the pictures I tried it doesn't affect it.

Does this happen with all of your photos?
Are all of your photos from the same camera?
Is it possible to share a problem picture?
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Its not every photo but it is from a mixture of cameras. I don't have 10.6 on the system due to this problem but I will reload when 10.6.3 comes out to see if the problem goes away.

One thing I did think of is that there could be an underlying issue with the graphics card that is not exposed in 10.4/10.5 or Windows but that is brought to the surface with 10.6. If that is the case, I don't think 10.6.3 will fix it (nor should it).
 
AnneStuarto238 said:
Please stop talking until you got experience with older hardware + 10.6! :mad:
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I've installed Snow Leopard on 3 Macs and none of them have had issues. One is the first gen macbook pro and another is a second gen macbook. the last one is my macbook pro i got last summer.

None of those computers are experiencing any issues.
 
I am running the current seed of 10.6.3 and the graphics do appear to be smoother. There was nothing in the seed note that specifically said it addressed issues with the type of problems some people have been having related to graphics. It just says graphics drivers.
 
i hope they fix the 9400m minidisplay port power issue, my dualhead2go dp isn't working with 10.6.2 because of the voltage drop on the graphics card =( I'm stuck in 10.6.1 as of this moment to run dual monitors
 
Looking forward to the 10.6.3 release...

That said, I don't think the re-offering of Safari 4.0.5 should be a showstopper. Annoying, certainly, but not critical to fix.
 
csalm87 said:
What seems choppy to you?
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I have a 21.5inch iMac with the 9400M and theres definitely something wrong with the graphics drivers as dashboard, exposé, grid stacks and time machine animations are choppy and slow compared to the ATI model. When I continuously enter and exit dashboard it will be choppy for the first few times before it becomes a lot smoother. Is that the kind of animation speed improvements your noticing on the latest seed?
 
Davieis said:
I have a 21.5inch iMac with the 9400M and theres definitely something wrong with the graphics drivers as dashboard, exposé, grid stacks and time machine animations are choppy and slow compared to the ATI model. When I continuously enter and exit dashboard it will be choppy for the first few times before it becomes a lot smoother. Is that the kind of animation speed improvements your noticing on the latest seed?
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Sounds like a caching issue - either that or a memory transfer issue. Both of these can be at least partially addressed through software.
 
Davieis said:
I have a 21.5inch iMac with the 9400M and theres definitely something wrong with the graphics drivers as dashboard, exposé, grid stacks and time machine animations are choppy and slow compared to the ATI model. When I continuously enter and exit dashboard it will be choppy for the first few times before it becomes a lot smoother. Is that the kind of animation speed improvements your noticing on the latest seed?
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Same problems on my original 13" Unibody. I've done several clean installs, so it's not that. And honestly, it isn't terrible on my machine, but then I go and use my friends' Macs every once and awhile and I'm like, "Dang, this three year old machine is smooth!"
 
Mr. Wonderful said:
Same problems on my original 13" Unibody. I've done several clean installs, so it's not that. And honestly, it isn't terrible on my machine, but then I go and use my friends' Macs every once and awhile and I'm like, "Dang, this three year old machine is smooth!"
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Interesting. I continue to be happy that I took the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" approach with my unibody MB, and stuck with 10.5.8.
 
Davieis said:
I have a 21.5inch iMac with the 9400M and theres definitely something wrong with the graphics drivers as dashboard, exposé, grid stacks and time machine animations are choppy and slow compared to the ATI model. When I continuously enter and exit dashboard it will be choppy for the first few times before it becomes a lot smoother. Is that the kind of animation speed improvements your noticing on the latest seed?
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Yeah, I'm noticing that all of that seems smoother
 
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