gaming - jerky motion

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gaming - jerky motion

Jerky motion on my SRMB MacBook 2.0 Ghz 2GB no other applications running in dock

It happens about every 45 seconds and has NOTHING to do with where I am in the game. It happens on most games, and at all screen resolution settings, whether I am on the Internet or not. Is there a process I can KILL to stop this? Or other simple fix? Otherwise, gaming is useless.

Thanks for any assistance!

Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Apr 27, 2008 8:55 PM

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Answer 1

Apr 28, 2008 1:43 AM in response to RJ mac

What game are you playing?.

The Macbook is not very well specced for playing games. Even though some games will run it lacks a separate graphics chip and so the frame-rate on most 3D games is very slow.

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RJ mac Author

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Apr 28, 2008 11:13 AM in response to RJ mac

I found the process in question by watching Activity Monitor while playing the game. Every time there's a 0.5 second pause in the screen updates, this process is active (about every 45 seconds). There are no other processes that activate during the graphics glitch. Every time this process activates, the graphics stop for a sec, so your player dies. Gaming is useless with this process running.

The process is: Update

Quitting it doesn't work. The OS just launches it again.

According to this list, it's "responsible for keeping disks synchronized with the file system cache, to keep data loss to a minimum in case of a crash."
http://www.westwind.com/reference/OS-X/background-processes.html

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