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Mac OS 10.5.6 gaming improvements

#1 FragUPlenty

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Posted 15 December 2008 - 10:01 PM

so I fired up Doom III, Unreal Tournament 2004, and Halo today in order to check out some of the new gaming improvements that where claimed to be in 10.5.6 good news is that no more black boxes around the muzzle flash from the gun in halo and I noticed slightly higher fps in Doom 3. UT 2004 seemed to pretty much be the same anyway just wondering if any of you guys noticed better gaming performance.

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Posted 16 December 2008 - 01:00 AM

I'm going to try soon! :lol:

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Posted 16 December 2008 - 06:43 AM

No FPS improvement with OpenGL Extension Viewer Benchmark.

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Posted 16 December 2008 - 06:58 AM

I didn't notice any improvement in Doom3 with an ATI X1600.

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Posted 16 December 2008 - 10:58 AM

I'm getting slightly better FPS in ET:QW, nothing in Halo or Q3 though.

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Posted 16 December 2008 - 03:14 PM

I'll fire up X-Plane 9 tonight after I get build 1.1 of Widget Monkey pushed to the Apple Store and report if anything is changed/improved.

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#7 striderdm1

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Posted 30 December 2008 - 07:14 AM

iRolley, on December 16th 2008, 12:58 PM, said:

I didn't notice any improvement in Doom3 with an ATI X1600.

Have to agree, i played Quake4, Doom3 and BF1942 yesterday. Noticed no speed improvements on this ye' olde PPC Mac..

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#8 FragUPlenty

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Posted 30 December 2008 - 05:03 PM

I wonder if the improvement is just like with nvidia cards or something because so far I have noticed many noticeable improvements but I dont play games in a high resolution so maybe it has to do with playing at a lower resolution.

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