Worse graphics performance after 10.5.6 (MBP)

[Fabiano]

Anybody else experiencing poor graphic performance after the update? I used to play Age of Empires 3 in the Highest settings (with AA off), now I have to push down some settings, in order to have a decent frame rate! this sucks :/

I have an Early 2008 MBP.

 

[TRaymond]

Yes...I am.

I have a late 2008 Macbook Pro and use mine for video editing (not gaming). At anyrate, I spent some time at the Apple store today. After speaking with the "Genius's", I came home and started some testing.

-- Clean Install of OS X from install CD's....
-- Go to www.apple.com/movies and watch the Day the earth stood still trailer.
-- In Quicktime, use Movie Inspector. Movie is encoded in 29.97 FPS...Actual playback frame rate.....29-30 FPS.

so far so good.

-- Update to 10.5.6.
-- View same movie as above. Frame rates now 15-20 FPS.

Interestingly this only occurs if I have the "Higher Performance" option set in Energy Saver. "Better Battery Life" will yield the proper Frame Rate of 29-30 FPS... It appears that there is some kind of incompatibility with something in 10.5.6/Quicktime that the 9600M GT video Card doesn't like.

HELP!!!!!

 

[The General]

No problems here. On 10.5.6, on 9400 and 9600, the day the earth stood still 1080P trailer plays at 30 solid all the way through, full screen and in a window that is bigger than my display.

EDIT: My apologies. I was using VLC. Quicktime is giving me the same results the above poster is getting. 20-ish fps on 9600, 30fps solid on 9400.

 

[TRaymond]

AHA!!! I knew I wasn't going crazy. My concern is what else is affected?

IE: If I'm using Final Cut Express or IMovie...am I not getting the rendering performance that I should be? Seeing how everything is so closely tied to Quicktime.

I'm too new to know and I've been working on this for like 2 days now trying to troubleshoot it. &

 

[Michael Baker]

Safari graphics corrupted (again)

After installing the 10.5.6 update, the graphics in Safari are corrupted again on my MacBook Pro 17" high res. This was a problem with the 10.5.2 update, and then Mac seemed to fix it. What gives?

 

[macrem]

AHA!!! I knew I wasn't going crazy. My concern is what else is affected?

IE: If I'm using Final Cut Express or IMovie...am I not getting the rendering performance that I should be? Seeing how everything is so closely tied to Quicktime.

I'm too new to know and I've been working on this for like 2 days now trying to troubleshoot it. &

I'm updated to 10.5.6, currently using the 9600 GPU and watched the HD1080 version of the day the earth stood still. I get ~27 FPS but still not the full 30.

 

[TRaymond]

Are there any Apple "Genius"'s or any Apple Engineers that monitor these forums? IT would appear that there is a problem here.

TRaymond