Nvidea GeForce 8600M GT card and memory leak

I have a year old MacBook Pro with an Nvidea GeForce 8600M GT card.

I recently bought Unity but it turns out the Nvidea GeForce 8600M GT graphics card isn't fully supported because of a memory leak which is a problem with the drivers.
Unity Support have told me to update my drivers. I understood Mac drivers were always built in to the OS and no drivers were available from Nvidea but I see they now have one Mac driver for another card.

What is the actual state of affairs with this graphics card does anyone know? There have been a lot of reports of faulty ones and now this.

This is a just about year old top of the range MacBook Pro and it doesn't support graphics??

17" MacBook Pro 2.6 GHZ 4 GIGs RAM, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Jul 21, 2009 10:28 AM

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Jul 21, 2009 10:54 AM in response to Davies

To use OpenGL Profiler you will need Developer Tools installed and it is in Developer>Applications>Graphics Tools

The first time you start it up you will have to do a small configuration thing, it is not hard to do. Then you will see a window that in the upper left has the option to launch or attach to an application. Choose launch, and add the unity application in there, and then expand the launch settings part of the window by click on the triangle. You will see a drop-down that reads "Native Graphics Driver" Change that to the most advanced card on the list, you may have to look them up to find out. then launch Unity with it and see how it performs.

I looked at the link you provided and that is not for your graphics card, and it would be bad to install that onto your computer.

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