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Reduced 3D performance in 10.6.2 Anyone else seeing games slow to a crawl in 10.6.2?

#1 User is offline   Kevin Yank Icon

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Post icon  Posted 10 November 2009 - 05:00 AM

Having just applied the update from Mac OS X 10.6.1 to 10.6.2, Prince of Persia (Mac) has slowed to a crawl using settings that previously delivered fluid frame rates.

Has anyone else observed reduced 3D performance in 10.6.2?
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Posted 10 November 2009 - 08:46 PM

View PostKevin Yank, on November 10th 2009, 06:00 AM, said:

Having just applied the update from Mac OS X 10.6.1 to 10.6.2, Prince of Persia (Mac) has slowed to a crawl using settings that previously delivered fluid frame rates.

Has anyone else observed reduced 3D performance in 10.6.2?


It's supposed to boost performance significantly in Bioshock
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Posted 11 November 2009 - 04:19 AM

View PostSneaky Snake, on November 10th 2009, 07:46 PM, said:

It's supposed to boost performance significantly in Bioshock


Yes for the NV cards the 10.6.2 update fixes a driver problem which had a HUGE effect on the performance. ATI cards are not effected although I am sure the 10.6.2 patch might help a bit.

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Posted 12 November 2009 - 01:43 PM

View PostKevin Yank, on November 10th 2009, 05:00 AM, said:

Having just applied the update from Mac OS X 10.6.1 to 10.6.2, Prince of Persia (Mac) has slowed to a crawl using settings that previously delivered fluid frame rates.

Has anyone else observed reduced 3D performance in 10.6.2?


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Posted 13 November 2009 - 06:09 PM

http://barefeats.com/nehal16.html

rob-ART ran a bunch of benchmarks comparing graphics performance between 10.5.8, 10.6.0, and 10.6.2 with the HD4870 and GTX 285. The results are all over the place in terms of increases and decreases. On average though, 10.5.8 seems to be the most consistent fast performer, which is kind of disappointing.
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Posted 14 November 2009 - 02:34 AM

Indeed - especially as they'd mentioned driver updates. Maybe they should have benchmarked Bioshock ;)
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