Tiger 10.4.11 really slow..

[jrsx]

Would you be so kind as to post a list or tutorial of all the optimizations you do to Leopard? I am running a dual 1.8 G5 and even then there is choppiness and UI lag (e.g. dragging into and out of Dock, opening apps on Dock, etc.).

On my 1.33 GHz G4 it runs fine! No issues with dock at all...

 

[eyoungren]

Would you be so kind as to post a list or tutorial of all the optimizations you do to Leopard? I am running a dual 1.8 G5 and even then there is choppiness and UI lag (e.g. dragging into and out of Dock, opening apps on Dock, etc.).

Start with this. This is the Secrets prefpane and it will let you adjust a lot of hidden settings for both OS X and a lot of the native apps. I am suggesting starting there because I could rattle off a few things that take a couple of different apps to take care of (Onyx, TinkerTool, etc). This is just easier.

- Go through it. Find anything that relates to animations and shut it off.
- Use ShadowKiller to kill window shadows
- Turn off Icon Previews on your icons
- Avoid using coverflow view

Extreme options:
-Turn off Spotlight
-Turn off virtual memory.

Secrets should cover a lot of it for you. Be careful though.

 

[Altemose]

Start with this. This is the Secrets prefpane and it will let you adjust a lot of hidden settings for both OS X and a lot of the native apps. I am suggesting starting there because I could rattle off a few things that take a couple of different apps to take care of (Onyx, TinkerTool, etc). This is just easier.

- Go through it. Find anything that relates to animations and shut it off.
- Use ShadowKiller to kill window shadows
- Turn off Icon Previews on your icons
- Avoid using coverflow view

Extreme options:
-Turn off Spotlight
-Turn off virtual memory.

Secrets should cover a lot of it for you. Be careful though.

I don't have an issue with the speed of the OS, just the animations? Do you have a good idea on this? I heard about disabling BeamSync.

 

[eyoungren]

I don't have an issue with the speed of the OS, just the animations? Do you have a good idea on this? I heard about disabling BeamSync.

OK. Change the speed of the rollout sheets to Very Fast. That should be in Finder settings using either the Secrets prefpane or Onyx.

 

[Altemose]

OK. Change the speed of the rollout sheets to Very Fast. That should be in Finder settings using either the Secrets prefpane or Onyx.

Where is that exactly? I am having trouble finding it. I searched Help too. Will this solve the slight choppiness when opening applications?

 

[eyoungren]

Where is that exactly? I am having trouble finding it. I searched Help too. Will this solve the slight choppiness when opening applications?

In Onyx it's on the General Tab under Parameters.

I've lightened the background of my screen cap so you can see. Changing this changes the speed at which OS X rolls out dialogue boxes.

For opening animations I would suggest turning it off all together. You can find that in the Dock tab under Parameters in Onyx.

 

[Altemose]

In Onyx it's on the General Tab under Parameters.



I've lightened the background of my screen cap so you can see. Changing this changes the speed at which OS X rolls out dialogue boxes.



For opening animations I would suggest turning it off all together. You can find that in the Dock tab under Parameters in Onyx.

Thanks for your help. I will check it out!

 

[roadbloc]

I could never recommend downgrading to Panther.

Even if Tiger is still literally "unusable" after a RAM upgrade? What do you suppose the OP does then? Just continue using a machine with an OS that doesn't work on it?

 

[jrsx]

I could never recommend downgrading to Panther.

What??
Panther really isn't all that bad, and I think it's a great alternative to Tiger, especially on an old iMac G3 with little RAM. Panther is fast on 128 MB of RAM for me....

 

[eyoungren]

In regards to Panther. As a stable OS it's the one version of OS X I like better than Leopard. It was rock solid stable on every machine I used it on, even in a server environment with mixed PCs and Macs.

Boring as heck to look at and now not capable of running many modern apps, but solid.

Personally though, if a RAM upgrade does not help I think a reinstall (Erase and Install) of the OS would be next in order instead of downgrading to Panther.

 

[Altemose]

What??

Panther really isn't all that bad, and I think it's a great alternative to Tiger, especially on an old iMac G3 with little RAM. Panther is fast on 128 MB of RAM for me....

eyoungren hit it it perfectly. Panther is great but won't run much of anything nowadays. At least Tiger has TenFourFox and can run iWork 09.