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Morrigan, it has been safe since 10.4.0.

As for UT2k4, I have always gotten good FPS on that. I have a single 1 Ghz G4 and ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. Probably your Nvidia that is causing the bad FPS in UT2k4. And I also have good FPS in Halo too.

Speed is WAY improved under 10.4.1 on a number of games. For the record, I'm on a G4/1.42 GHz with a GeForce4 Ti 4600. Halo previously was a bit choppy at max detail, but is now almost as smooth as when I run it with just vertex shaders. Doom 3 was previously unplayable, and now gets a very good 20-30 FPS in many places, slowing down only when there is a complex animation or a new area is loading. C&C is faster too.

The only thing that barely sped up at all is UT2004, which continues to have an unacceptably poor framerate even at medium to low detail on my setup. Given it's visually Halo's opposite number it certainly ought to be doing a lot better. Whoever did Halo's _excellent_ Mac optimization should take a crack at UT. They're both MacSoft games afterall.

no way baby, i'm a panther 'til 10.4.3 ate least :)