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Unhappy with Tiger's video performance

leekohler

leekohler

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Dec 22, 2004
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Well, I got Tiger for my 1GHz G4 PowerMac Sawtooth (upgraded) with a 64 Mb ATI Radeon 9000 Pro video card and 1.5 Gb RAM, and I must say it's disappointing. Scrolling in all apps is MUCH slower than Panther, and even the genie effect is noticably affected. I thought these things would be OK with Quartz Extreme running them, but they're not. Am I doing something wrong? Can I turn something off to fix this problem? The slow scrolling speed is really annoying when working in large documents. Maybe I just have to get another video card. Oh I should mention I cleaned off my hard drive before installing Tiger. Help guys.
 
mad jew said:
Something's not right. Tiger's been scrolling and the such just fine for me. Any other changes made apart from the OS?
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No. And like I said, I erased my HD before I installed- I find that's usually best to get good performance. Now I'm really hesitating to put it on my iBook G4.
 
Windowlicker said:
Any chance the problem is caused by your processor upgrade?
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Yeah, you might be right there, I remember reading before that Tiger doesn't support processor upgrade cards.
 
gangst said:
Yeah, you might be right there, I remember reading before that Tiger doesn't support processor upgrade cards.
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Hmmm...maybe I should just go back to Panther. But it seems to me that it would be even worse if it was the upgrade. I suppose it's possible. I'll check the Sonnet website for updates.
 
Hey- maybe this is it. When I started Tiger for the first time, I had it pull all of the info off my iBook (apps, preferences, etc.). Maybe I should have just reinstalled everything manually. Could that have made a difference?
 
leekohler said:
Hey- maybe this is it. When I started Tiger for the first time, I had it pull all of the info off my iBook (apps, preferences, etc.). Maybe I should have just reinstalled everything manually. Could that have made a difference?
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heck yes!@# a clean install is ALWAYS best. I never do anything but clean installs and in turn I have no issues. I have a franken mac also and it runs tiger very well.
 
zen.state said:
heck yes!@# a clean install is ALWAYS best. I never do anything but clean installs and in turn I have no issues. I have a franken mac also and it runs tiger very well.
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Well the Tiger install was a clean install. But I guess I didn't think pulling things off the iBook afterward would cause a problem. I guess I'll start over then. I'll let you guys know what happens. Thanks.
 
zen.state said:
heck yes!@# a clean install is ALWAYS best. I never do anything but clean installs and in turn I have no issues.
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If your system is running well beforehand, I think an Archive and Install is just as good. I've A&Ied Tiger on 3 Macs now without problems on any of them. And it's far quicker than a clean install when you take into account reinstalling all your applications and configuring all your preferences etc. I work on the principle that if there's a problem with the A&I, I can always go back and do a clean install and I've wasted less than an hour. Whereas if I go the clean route, it's likely to take me an additional 3 or 4 hours to reinstall all my software etc
 
Applespider said:
If your system is running well beforehand, I think an Archive and Install is just as good. I've A&Ied Tiger on 3 Macs now without problems on any of them. And it's far quicker than a clean install when you take into account reinstalling all your applications and configuring all your preferences etc. I work on the principle that if there's a problem with the A&I, I can always go back and do a clean install and I've wasted less than an hour. Whereas if I go the clean route, it's likely to take me an additional 3 or 4 hours to reinstall all my software etc
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Unfortunately, it looks like I'll be doing a clean install again. But if it fixes my problems, it's worth another four hours.
 
zen.state said:
heck yes!@# a clean install is ALWAYS best. I never do anything but clean installs and in turn I have no issues. I have a franken mac also and it runs tiger very well.
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Yes! Success! That was the problem. Everything works OK now. Thanks a lot guys! Tiger rocks!
 
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