Valve Claims Frame Rate Improvements of Up to 120% With Snow Leopard Graphics Update

[mcrazza]

I assume you have the 2600, which should be fine to run Portal.

Yep, ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro.

You are getting stuttering? Is it possible to turn on Triple Buffering to see if that helps?

Triple buffering?

 

[3583582]

Tell me about it, there is no such number as 120%.

So the improvements are from 15% to a fictious amount....interesting!

Of course there is. Percentage is just a way of expressing a number as a fraction of 100.

To put it simple: you have 1 apple. If someone gave you one more apple, you'd have 100% more apples. But if that someone instead would have given you two apples you'd obviously have gotten a greater increase than 100%..

This update has been great to Football Manager by the way, pretty much the only game I run on my mac..

 

[cmaier]

Tell me about it, there is no such number as 120%.

So the improvements are from 15% to a fictious amount....interesting!

Dude - you may want to go get a refund from your sixth grade math teacher.

 

[retro83]

Thats straight up OpenGL vs DirectX right there.

You have to understand that OpenGL and DirectX are night and day. Im not a MS fanboy to say the least, however; DirectX is highly optimized and far superior to OpenGL.

Wrong, or at least not the whole story. OpenGL games mostly unplayable on OSX, work smoothly on W7. Also the graphics update made no difference.

I couldn't really give less of a **** about games on my Macbook, but I want the GUI to be smooth please! The transitions into Spaces etc are all very slow (looks about 10fps!)

And don't bother saying it's because it's old - if that was the case it wouldn't be smooth in Windows 7 doing the exact same kind of transitions.