Since I updated my os to 10.6.4 I am having problem rendering graphics, there are even lags on quicktime while playing movies. Do others having the same problem? Is there a bug in the update?
I am literally dead in the water after this update. Desktop is just flickering like crazy, no menus, nothing... Time for...time machine. I will most certainly be hesitant to update in the future. Glad to find this thread to confirm I am not going crazy...
As this thread is a few weeks too old, I don't think you guys' problem is the same as mine, but I wanted to bring up my current issue.
About a week ago, Starcraft 2 became all but unplayable on my 13" Macbook pro (mid 2009, 2.53 GHz w/ the 9400M). I am running the latest version of everything OS-wise, and when I start a game, the framerate begins to "bounce." I'm running everything on the lowest settings (unacceptable to begin with on a machine that should be capable of medium-high easily), and the framerate still goes from around 30 down to 10 or so intermittently.
About 5 minutes into the game, it becomes much worse. It becomes an unresponsive slide-show of a game, and I inevitably lose to technical problems. It's very frustrating, and from what I hear, I'm not the only one suffering from the issue.
I've heard that those who have had the issue then tried it in Boot Camp note that the problem is nonexistent in Windows. Come on, Apple, are you really going to make me buy from Microsoft just to play a game that should be 100% supported? Fix it, please.
I have just bought a new Mac Pro 5.1, 12 core 2.93 with an ATI 5870, cost me £5000 odd and it's practically useless (for my requirements).
The machine is destined to use Catalyst (a media server) which uses OpenGL and Quicktime. I did a frame rate test and could only manage to play 66fps of ProRes 422 at 1080p which is a little shocking.
I looked further into this and found out about the 10.6.4 graphics issues with ATI cards so I borrowed a GTX 285 and hey presto, my machine can do 166fps of ProRes, more like what I was hoping for.
All Apple contacts I have spoken to, Apple Business and AppleCare suggest waiting till 10.6.5 or getting a GTX 285 in the interim. I asked for a 285 to be provided but this would cost me full business rate, the suggestion of going 50/50 on it was also not entertained.
I'm sincerely let down that I've been sold a dead duck, with a problem that is well known about in Apple by all accounts, and expected to wait for an update. Apple have said that they'll accept the machine back for a refund, however I bought it because I need it, working!
For those stuck at 10.6.4 and having issues, if you have an install disk for an earlier 10.6 installation you can just install over it. It will keep your files but overwrite the system files. I've done it 3 times now as I kept trying 10.6.4 and it continued to fail.
Just to make sure we're on the same page, my issue was that the mouse would skip around, using spaces was SOO SLOW and Expose was a nightmare. It would jitter and skip and take forever. The computer was unusable and I wasted days trying to figure it out.
I'm happy at 10.6.3 but don't wanna get left too far behind and can't afford to risk going blindly to 10.6.5 because this is a work machine.
Kernal Panics with HAL50 apple.nvidia.com, Weird Finder Crashes, Screen Halts the lot
This is a disaster, as a bit of a fan boy, my patients has run thin. I have wasted 2 weeks trying to trouble shoot this issue, even to the point of re-doing the firmware on a stock standard ATI 5770 into a frankenstein Mac PCIe Card, works fine but still the persistent issues with 10.6.4. 10.6.5 is still no better and the reliability for a commercial workstation si just not upto the muster. Machine Runs sweet with 10.6.3 no issues. Doesn't matter switching between the 8800 GT or the 5770 apple has seriously had a mare! Makes Matters worse
Fustrated and ****** just after buying a 30" Cinema Display 8 weeks ago before they run out, I now find my self in desperation with a i7 Power Book to get deadlines complete. & a 27" on order as the inherent issues with the display port driving the 30". So ****** off with apple
The problem still occurs for me on 10.6.5. The framerate stutters, exactly as described by others in this thread. 😟
I have to Boot Camp into Windows to play League of Legends, and it's not even graphically demanding. Certain games work without issues, though, like UrbanTerror. I wonder if it has to do with a GL flag it's setting that most games don't.
This problem is solved
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmoWoeNrkOs just two simple steps. It's just working. Problem was in AppleGraphicsPowerManagement.kext. Issue with any bluetooth headset and usb sound cards gone too 😉 WOW and skype now working fine! No more choppy expose and dashboard )
Apple developer! please look at that video and solve this graphic problem on the "system" level. Best regards !
not cool graphics problem. it's a stretched out image made of the colors present over that particular part of the screen. Happens about once every minute. This occurs ever since I did a clean install of Snow Leopard from 10.4 Tiger, then a drive reformatting re-install. I am updated to 10.6.6, and there's still a glitch. Not to mention, Apple's "taking customer responses seriously" is lackluster.
I'd like to re-surface this thread, with hopes that somebody found what could be done. The "highly trained" Apple guy at the retail simply said I should be fine going 10.4 to 10.6, but since then I've read that it is a good idea to have moved from 10.4 to 10.5 then from there to 10.6.
if my "software is up to date" what else is there for me to do? the AppleGraphicsPowerManagement.kewt prompt isn't showing on my Profiler. I thought about a reformat all the way from the primary (maybe unmounted?-whatever it is) hard drive on my computer, further back from "Macintosh HD" but would that just turn my computer into a hunk of unusable hardware? Problem must lie within the Snow Leopard software.
I can't eat, sleep. Mac used to be my other limb.
