Poor Steam Performance Under 10.6.4 w/ nvidia GPUs
Valve Software has documented a known issue that causes severe performance degridation for 10.6.4 users with nvidia GPUs. Valve Software is advising that users avoid updating to 10.6.4 to avoid experiencing this issue. Unfortunately many of us patched before becoming aware of this issue. The performance hit has been very drastic between 10.6.3 and 10.6.3 and sometimes makes games unplayable.
Valve states this is an issue with 10.6.4 and not with Steam:
+The recent 10.6.4 update from Apple has noticeable performance issues for NVidia graphic chip owners running high performance games.+
+If you wish to avoid this, you should consider waiting to install the 10.6.4 update until Apple has had the opportunity to address this issue.+
+Full details of what is contained in the 10.6.4 update can be found here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4150.+
+If you have already installed this update and believe your graphic performance is affected, please contact Apple support ( http://www.apple.com/support/) for details on what to do.+
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1314406
Thanks!
Valve states this is an issue with 10.6.4 and not with Steam:
+The recent 10.6.4 update from Apple has noticeable performance issues for NVidia graphic chip owners running high performance games.+
+If you wish to avoid this, you should consider waiting to install the 10.6.4 update until Apple has had the opportunity to address this issue.+
+Full details of what is contained in the 10.6.4 update can be found here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4150.+
+If you have already installed this update and believe your graphic performance is affected, please contact Apple support ( http://www.apple.com/support/) for details on what to do.+
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1314406
Thanks!
24" iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
