Valve Warns of Gaming Performance Issues With NVIDIA Graphics Cards on Mac OS X 10.6.4

[Preclaro_tipo]

OpenGL speed in 10.6.4 vs 10.6.1

Please read my other post about the OpenGl improvement in 10.6.4.

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/10438805/

 

[apolloa]

I have a Core i5 MBP with the 330M nvidia chip,

I'm also a techy kinda guy and a professional software dev so this isn't some subjective garble, my performance has HIT THE FLOOR since I applied 10.6.4, whilst I appreciate that the directX api is mature and Windows really has gaming nailed, I dont expect an update to have a negative effect on performance!

I would say a 40% drop in Frames per sec.

As others have pointed out, HOW can this get through beta testing with release notes asking testers to concentrate on graphics drivers??

This needs to be addressed immediately.
It's so amateur.

Well I have the laptop in my sig and I want to confirm that, is the update the reason why in Half life 2 episode 2 and I get lots of action on the screen I get stuttering and glitching and lagging?
I installed the update the day I got the laptop or the day after so have no idea what performance was before the update?

 

[maxmara2]

I am still on 10.6.3 and have no intend to update to 10.6.4 at all