That's not the issue though. Many people have stated that their getting great performance on similar or lesser systems. Something else is going wrong with the OP's setup. I'm not disagreeing with you though that PC gaming is far ahead of OS X, but in this case, something else is awry.
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That's not the issue though. Many people have stated that their getting great performance on similar or lesser systems. Something else is going wrong with the OP's setup. I'm not disagreeing with you though that PC gaming is far ahead of OS X, but in this case, something else is awry.
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How are you measuring fps? Is there another method other than the in-game show fps command?
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How are you measuring fps? Is there another method other than the in-game show fps command?
I'll post when I get home in a couple of hours. I'll do before/after Xbenches as well..
Thats the only way I am measuring it. It does not matter if it is 100% accurate or not. The fact is, the game will stutter every few seconds, sometimes for a second freeze. What I want to know is, why are people having no issues with low powered systems than me, BUT it never lags once on Win7?
I wasn't just wondering if there was a way to get the average/min/max FPS across an entire game for example.
FWIW my Xbench gained maybe 5 to 10 points, so for all intents and purposes a fairly negligible improvement. I'll check in on SC2 later.
Update: No obvious improvement in SC2 framerate.
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Really? Are you guys on ATI? I had a very obvious improvement in frame rate, both in SC2 and Source games.
Has this issue persisted since you started playing? Have you considered a reinstall? There's no reason your system should be stuttering in SC2.
As I posted I lost a lot of FPS in Portal and maybe gained a few FPS in SC2. Still running SC2 on meager settings on a MP 1,1 5770 and it's barely playable. I really don't want to submit to bootcamp because I know there will be no going back but this is frustrating. Especially when folks are claiming to get 70FPS w/Ultra settings on similar hardware.
I have formatted and installed OS X+SC2 about 6 times now and it never helps. Yes I know my hardware can run it fine. For the 100th time I can play the game perfectly under Win7 through bootcamp at 150-200 fps on ultra and no lag. So this just leaves OSX. Why is it only a few people that have this issue though?
I understand, that's why I thought it was some issue with your OS X install. If you've tried it that many times though, I'm stumped. Only other idea is, some errant setting is on / off. Do you have vsync turned on? I know you're not getting screen tearing, but I know I get issues without vsync. Could be worth a try. Otherwise, sorry
Response from Blizzard Support re: Low Framerate:
'This is a known issue after Patch 1.1 and 1.1.1. We have a whole department currently working on a resolution. We do not have an ETA on when this resolution will occur, but they are working diligently on finding a resolution. It will appear in the form of a update patch. '
In the meantime I installed Windows 7 and went from playing on Medium with slowdowns to Ultra across the board with no issues.
'This is a known issue after Patch 1.1 and 1.1.1. We have a whole department currently working on a resolution. We do not have an ETA on when this resolution will occur, but they are working diligently on finding a resolution. It will appear in the form of a update patch. '
In the meantime I installed Windows 7 and went from playing on Medium with slowdowns to Ultra across the board with no issues.
I tried 10.6.5 and framerate is much better.
I play SC2 on a Macbook Pro and it runs fine. If you are having any problems with freezes please read: http://chinbilly.blogspot.com/2010/11/starcraft-2-hang-on-mac-1065-fix.html