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Solution for choppy animations

unity said:
I really dont understand the issues some have with the GUI effects.

I have a Titanium PowerBook. It has 768MB RAM and a G4 @ 1.25 GHZ (not a consumer model) and a Radeon Mobility Pro 9000.

Thats pretty crappy specs really. I do NOT have a transparent menu bar. Other than that, everything works smooth as silk. I did NOT expect it to be so smooth, especially spaces. There is no horizontal tearing of dock icons with magnification on. Dashboard comes and goes fine and expose is great.

The only time I have slow downs is when I am doing really intense CPU stuff, like playing Sim City 4 Rush Hour in a window while surfing and chatting.
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I just dont understand how people STILL do not realize that this is primarily a Nvidia driver issue. the VASt majority of ATI carded folks have smooth animations. go figure my 2K MBP sucks...
 
zepharus said:
I just dont understand how people STILL do not realize that this is primarily a Nvidia driver issue. the VASt majority of ATI carded folks have smooth animations. go figure my 2K MBP sucks...
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You are probably right...but it does that with GMA xxxx graphic cards too.
 
zepharus said:
I just dont understand how people STILL do not realize that this is primarily a Nvidia driver issue. the VASt majority of ATI carded folks have smooth animations. go figure my 2K MBP sucks...
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My graphics are choppy and I have the 2.33ghz MBP with the ATI card. However I was able to resolve the choppy windows with installing the 2D to 3D change for the dock. Seems to be fine now.
 
djinn said:
My graphics are choppy and I have the 2.33ghz MBP with the ATI card. However I was able to resolve the choppy windows with installing the 2D to 3D change for the dock. Seems to be fine now.
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I did the exact same thing but when I applied the command line provided in the bottom of the last page, I solved my choppiness.
 
I don't have any Nvidia card but I do have choppy animations on both my MacBook and my iMac (17" late 2006, X1600). This solution works fine though, but the solution in the first post is more smooth than the second one, but still smooth enough. :)
 
G-Force said:
I don't have any Nvidia card but I do have choppy animations on both my MacBook and my iMac (17" late 2006, X1600). This solution works fine though, but the solution in the first post is more smooth than the second one, but still smooth enough. :)
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Try this, it worked for me:

duyvan82 said:
for those of you who are experiencing page tearing and would like to re-enable vsync but still want to have smooth animations, here is a work around I just accidentally came up with

- launch quartz debug
- tick "automatic beam sync"
- force quit quartz debug
- run this command in the terminal
Code: 
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver Compositor -dict deferredUpdates 1
- restart your mac

Hope that helps :)
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i was having the same issue with my first leopard upgrade... don't know if this'll work for fresh installs... BUT... if you're having some of that annoying chop, try booting off of your leopard dist and repair permissions from there... it found errors in quartz. After a reboot, everything was smooth without using quartz debug.

Cheers

EDIT: I decided to do a clean install tonight and I found that repairing permissions from the boot cd fixed it again.
 
Typing in the code at the bottom of page 1 of this thread definitely made my animations much smoother. I've only been playing around for a couple of minutes, but the difference is positively noticeable. I'm on a C2D 2.0Ghz 1GB RAM GMA 950 MacBook, for whatever it's worth. It's not that before it was extremely choppy, but now, Spaces and the Dock in particular animate like liquid.
 
i did the command line and my expose seems choppier...

is there a command to reverse it? man...choppy expose ruins the whole leopard experience for me.
 
I've been using the 2D dock for about a week now, and I will say it's amazing the difference. Everything is very smooth, kind of tiger like.
It kind of sucks since I liked the 3d Dock, but I definitely prefer smooth animation.
 
duyvan82 said:
So, a lot of us have been having problems with animations being choppy on Leopard (especially the new glass dock, genie effect and expose). Apparently, this is due to vsync. I have tried using quartz debug to disable automatic beam synchronization. As soon as it's disabled, the animations are silky smooth again, just like how they were on Tiger. So this is the solution

1. Launch Quartz debug (it comes with the development tools, if you don't have it, install it using your Leopard DVD)
2. Edit => Show Beam Sync Tools
3. Click "Disable Beam Synchronization"
4. Force quit Quartz Debug to make the change permanent

Your dock animation, as well as expose, dashboard, spaces should be smooth now. Lemme know how you go.
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hi. i put leopard dvd and is it this thing that i have to install: http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/3090/kuva1dq3.png

because when i try to install it i get this error: run preinstall script for developer tools. where is it? ps. can i get this problemm fix only typing this command: sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver Compositor -dict deferredUpdates 1
thanks
 
yeah, its weird but it worked for me :D Dont know if 10.5.2 and the graphics update fixes the problem as well......
 
A little update, it runs smoothier but still lags when I unminimize 2 windows at the same time... so I guess we still should wait for drivers update.
 
Would either of these help the animation of a stack opening up? My dock is nice and smooth, but when I go to open up a stack as a grid, it is pretty choppy. Both list, and fan open up smooth, but for some reason the grid makes it choppy.
 
maclovin' said:
Would either of these help the animation of a stack opening up? My dock is nice and smooth, but when I go to open up a stack as a grid, it is pretty choppy. Both list, and fan open up smooth, but for some reason the grid makes it choppy.
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Nope it doesn't fix that, I have the same problem.
 
The command line version doesn't work for me in Snow Leopard, though the Quartz Debug does. One problem though is that it doesn't save this setting after a reboot.

Any ideas how to force it to save the setting?
 
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