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Snow Leopard: Expose choppy?
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Expose is fine for me. Could be better, though. Stacks is pretty choppy, but not unbearable. Everything was super duper choppy during the Spotlight index, but it has greatly improved since.
Mid-'07 Mac mini. 2 GHz, 2 GB.
Mid-'07 Mac mini. 2 GHz, 2 GB.
I really miss Tiger and its silky smooth transitions.
I can assure you all that Apple will not provide a fix for this. It sure as hell did not provide one for Leopard. There was a thread just like this once Leopard came out and I still had choppy transitions after installing 10.5.8.
I can assure you all that Apple will not provide a fix for this. It sure as hell did not provide one for Leopard. There was a thread just like this once Leopard came out and I still had choppy transitions after installing 10.5.8.
Same here, check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIn-z8Wq_ro
I'm hoping for a .1 update sharpish !
same here
Hi,
I upgraded to 10.6 and Spaces & Exposé animations are very choppy on my unibody MacBook, specially when plugged to the LED cinema display. I tried both clean install and upgrade form Leopard.
Another strange thing is that the animations seems worse when iTunes is playing. Does that make any sense?
Hi,
I upgraded to 10.6 and Spaces & Exposé animations are very choppy on my unibody MacBook, specially when plugged to the LED cinema display. I tried both clean install and upgrade form Leopard.
Another strange thing is that the animations seems worse when iTunes is playing. Does that make any sense?
Clean install.
Mac Pro 1,1 with Radeon HD 4870
No choppy animations anywhere. Runs great!
Also, make sure you're not booting up into the 64bit kernel... I heard that this slows down animations.
By the way, my brother's Unibody MacBook runs great on Snow Leopard... so it might just be a funky install. He's got the previous generation MacBook (before they named it MacBook Pro... and no FireWire)
Mac Pro 1,1 with Radeon HD 4870
No choppy animations anywhere. Runs great!
Also, make sure you're not booting up into the 64bit kernel... I heard that this slows down animations.
By the way, my brother's Unibody MacBook runs great on Snow Leopard... so it might just be a funky install. He's got the previous generation MacBook (before they named it MacBook Pro... and no FireWire)
Mine does that too. If I open Expose with the 4-finger swipe, sometimes it will not go away when I swipe again. It doesn't always happen though.
In spaces the transitions for directly moving between screens and zooming out /in to see the screens is fast but at a horrific frame rate. The transition is very very quick but the framerate is poor. Like running a computer game on a slow computer, everything happens at the same speed but you only see 4fps instead of 60fps.
I am hoping the spaces thing gets fixed. Have only seen Unibody Macbook Pros, but it happens on all of them I have seen. On Leopard the transitions were silky smooth. My girlfriend still has Leopard and it seems I have paid £25 to go from a problem free system to one with bugs.
I am hoping the spaces thing gets fixed. Have only seen Unibody Macbook Pros, but it happens on all of them I have seen. On Leopard the transitions were silky smooth. My girlfriend still has Leopard and it seems I have paid £25 to go from a problem free system to one with bugs.
Thank you, thank you very much chex.
I only registered to thank you..
By the way, I didn't need to force quit. I hope it will remain after reboot. If not, I'll force quit.
After installing 10.6.2 this choppiness was quite annoying. Right now, it is superb!
If someone else has the same problem, you have to install the developer tools in order to have the Quartz Debug.
I only registered to thank you..
By the way, I didn't need to force quit. I hope it will remain after reboot. If not, I'll force quit.
After installing 10.6.2 this choppiness was quite annoying. Right now, it is superb!
If someone else has the same problem, you have to install the developer tools in order to have the Quartz Debug.
Both Spaces and Exposé are rendered by your video card.
As a matter of fact the card in the MacBook is very very limited and does not have a decent amount of RAM.
The higher the resolution, the more graphic power is needed to play such animations fluently.
When adding a second display, like the LED Cinema Display, your graphic card has to render the animations for both displays, plus the VRAM separated for each display.
No wonder if Exposé is choppy on your book.
I've experienced the same back in 2007 with a MacBook Pro (8600GT with 256MB VRAM) and a 30" Cinema Display.
The Book in single mode played every animation 100% fluent, with the Cinema display connected it was choppy.
Without the MBP's internal display, it was slightly better.
The system was 10.4 Tiger, so that is no Snow Leopard issue. It's the graphic card.
This is what I'm getting, one day screen redraw is smooth and then it's choppy, This is on a MacPro 08 8 core, I don't get it - but I cannot bring myself to reinstall!
Was a little late to the SL upgrade (not fresh install) on a 2.4G 17" MBP, and was also having the annoying pause with all of my stacks as well as spaces. A simple reset of the pram (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379) has it running as smoothly as it did with leopard.
Expose is getting choppy with 4+ minimized windows - just try it out for yourselves!
And I can say from my experience that Leopard's expose and Spaces were silky smoothness! Now in SL they're visibly choppy.
It's quite funny how Apple can't get it done right.
And I can say from my experience that Leopard's expose and Spaces were silky smoothness! Now in SL they're visibly choppy.
It's quite funny how Apple can't get it done right.
its not normal!
damn it, it runs fluently on a cluttered MBP but on a MP running RAID 0 system and 8gb ram 8cores animation is CHOPPY. on the same machine on leopard it runs normal. 22" ONE screen. on a GT8800
its so annoying, it annoys me all the time annoys me SO much. its a clean install.
anyone got a solution? i just setup my system and im not in the mood reauthorizing everything and copying and setting paths. bleh.
damn it, it runs fluently on a cluttered MBP but on a MP running RAID 0 system and 8gb ram 8cores animation is CHOPPY. on the same machine on leopard it runs normal. 22" ONE screen. on a GT8800
its so annoying, it annoys me all the time
annoys me SO much. its a clean install.anyone got a solution? i just setup my system and im not in the mood reauthorizing everything and copying and setting paths. bleh.
its not normal!
damn it, it runs fluently on a cluttered MBP but on a MP running RAID 0 system and 8gb ram 8cores animation is CHOPPY. on the same machine on leopard it runs normal. 22" ONE screen. on a GT8800
its so annoying, it annoys me all the time
anyone got a solution? i just setup my system and im not in the mood reauthorizing everything and copying and setting paths. bleh.
I have the 8800GT in my Mac Pro and Exposé is not choppy at all.
Edit: Entering Time Machine is choppy though.
sorry, the choppiness is most apparent on quicklook, and sometimes maximizing a minimized window.
neither it is on mine!
i have two computers both running two systems, and macpro is choppy on a fresh install of snow leopard and the laptop on fresh install is fine. im going to try to update the mac pro 10.5.8 to snow leopard to see if it becomes choppy, because if it doesnt its obviously something with the particular system :S
this is so annoying. damn it
Weird. Perhaps it's the 8800GT. I have a 4870 too and that card doesn't experience any choppieness anywhere. If I were you, I'd get an ATI 4870.
