GMA X3100 Driver!!!

Hello everybody. Sorry for my english but i'm italian.
Will Apple never release a decent driver for the gma x3100? From mac os x 10.5.2 they never update the driver i think. This video card go really bad. Expose and the other 2 animation go extremely slow and at low fps. I have a macmin with a video card with 32mb and the animation here go very very better than the macbook with the gma x3100. I also tried to install windows via bootcamp and intel release a driver update for this video card on march 2009 and under windows the gmax3100 is extremely better than under mac os x! I can play game with no problem. Is it possible that apple dosen't know that the leopard driver for this card thay have problems? I can't believe that i have spent 1300$ for a computer that it does not succeed to manage the animations neither 2d?

Macbook 13 2.4 (2008) GMA X3100, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Jul 7, 2009 1:53 AM

23 replies

bentek86 Author

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Jul 8, 2009 6:52 AM in response to kmac1036

ok, i will try those. I don't think that the ram is bad because i have do the apple hardware test. anyway i will try. just a curiosity: can you do the xbench and post your result? thanks

bentek86 Author

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Jul 8, 2009 7:04 AM in response to bentek86

hi, i'm doing the memtest but i see that the program have found 2451 mb of allocated memory but i hve 4 gb non 2,5...is it possible? and he see two bank of 1225 mb...not two of 2 gb...why?

kmac1036

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Jul 8, 2009 7:06 AM in response to bentek86

does the system profile state that it has 4 GB installed?

I will try & post some xbench marks for you when I can get to the internet with that machine.

bentek86 Author

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Jul 8, 2009 7:11 AM in response to kmac1036

yes, system profiler see 4 gb of ram. but i saw that also memtest see 4096..i mistake. anyway thanks if you posto some xbench

bentek86 Author

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Jul 11, 2009 7:05 AM in response to kmac1036

then do you see that opengl test is only 22 fps....is tooooo little don't you think?

kmac1036

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Jul 13, 2009 8:12 AM in response to bentek86

yeah, seems slow... not sure if it's apple's drivers or Open GL itself as my numbers for the NIVIDIA 9400 & 9600 are slow too.

kmac1036

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Jul 27, 2009 10:11 AM in response to Chris.by

hoping for the best in 10.6 that apple has worked with intel / nvidia for better drivers.

kmac1036

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Aug 6, 2009 12:03 PM in response to henrikmk

so did apple update or change the driver in 10.5.8?

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GMA X3100 Driver!!!