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Posted 15 September 2008 - 03:23 PM

Just thought I'd let you know in case you wanted to get this one ASAP. While the update description isn't very promising, I thought that the following changes located here were fairly interesting:

- Improves Spotlight indexing performance.

- Includes extensive graphics enhancements.
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Posted 15 September 2008 - 03:50 PM

YAY!!

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Posted 15 September 2008 - 04:54 PM

sounds good!
I look forward to seeing what this does when I install it tomorrow (ill check to see if its screwing people's computers over a little bit before hand too). Though I dont really expect all that much for my MBP.
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Posted 15 September 2008 - 05:43 PM

View Postteflon, on September 15th 2008, 06:54 PM, said:

sounds good!
I look forward to seeing what this does when I install it tomorrow (ill check to see if its screwing people's computers over a little bit before hand too).


What's the fun in that?


I have no problems to report yet. Spotlight has always indexed really fast for me. I don't have that much space, but even if it took twice as long, it still wouldn't be a big deal.

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Posted 15 September 2008 - 06:51 PM

Some one is happy, then again, I would be happy when an OS initially breaks my games, and then fixes what it broke. At least Leopard is redeeming itself by mending its' ways. That is good to hear. :)

By the way, on this topic of Leopard fixing the games it broke, I am very interested do know if it will fix CoD 2, as that is a game that everyone is talking about concerning this.

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Posted 15 September 2008 - 07:50 PM

View PostDark_Archon, on September 15th 2008, 07:43 PM, said:

]Diablo 2 does too.


What was wrong with D2?
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Posted 15 September 2008 - 07:58 PM

I'll be interested to see if any of those "extensive graphics improvements" will enable more games to run in Crossover. Several of the ones I tested fail because of bugs in Apple's code, not Codeweavers'.
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Posted 15 September 2008 - 09:51 PM

View PostDaveyJJ, on September 15th 2008, 09:50 PM, said:

What was wrong with D2?

Didn't work with the nvidia 8 series cards and 10.5.4.
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Posted 16 September 2008 - 02:19 AM

I'm going to try the GMA improved drivers.
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Posted 16 September 2008 - 02:23 AM

I wonder if this will affect UE3 development? Doesn't matter anyways my copy of UT3(PS3) comes in the mail within a few days.
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Posted 16 September 2008 - 06:12 AM

So Blizzard might as well have not bothered with the StarCraft bit depth fix?
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Posted 16 September 2008 - 03:25 PM

Impressions? GMAx3100 in WOW doens't seem faster (or only little).
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Posted 16 September 2008 - 04:38 PM

View PostTesseract, on September 16th 2008, 05:12 AM, said:

So Blizzard might as well have not bothered with the StarCraft bit depth fix?

No one with a GMA3k wants to play?
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Posted 16 September 2008 - 05:44 PM

dl'ing right now. Any 8600M GT difference?

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Posted 17 September 2008 - 11:57 PM

Benchs out today on Barefeats!
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Posted 19 September 2008 - 04:22 PM

BareFeats show even slower drivers on 10.5.5!
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Posted 19 September 2008 - 05:58 PM

View Postikir, on September 19th 2008, 03:22 PM, said:

BareFeats show even slower drivers on 10.5.5!

Holy popsnizzle! When Apple knows they have a problem, they really work hard to fix it!
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Posted 19 September 2008 - 05:56 PM

perhaps the Pro Apps update released yesterday bring Pro Apps from Apple up to speed with 10.5.5? in which case the latter few benches are moot.
The game related benches show no improvement at all.
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