Lion animation glitchy

Hi! You're not alone. Made clean install on a 27 inch 2011 i7 imac 3.4 ghz.

I have noticed slow screen redrawings in logic pro 9.1.5 and in many other cases like window moving, window animation. At the same time activity monitor shows zero CPU usage... It looks like the video drivers are waiting to be updated - the same way it was in snow leopard for me and my macbookpro 2007 (choppy graphics until 10.6.4)... Apple come on, release something finished for my bucks!

Gandalf Da Black wrote:

Yes I'm seeing glitchy animations too that weren't there in Snow Leopard. You can mainly notice a flicker (or redraw, rather) when switching between apps located on different Desktops. I'd never experienced any slow redraw using Spaces on 10.6.

This is precisely what is happening for me. General system animations and mail animations seem to be working correctly, but I'm getting flickers when switching Desktops. I keep my iChat on all desktops, and that application in particular flickers noticeably when switching from space to space.

Is there a way to turn off certain animation features on Lion?

There's an app called Lion Tweaks that easily allows you to turn off mail and system animations. None of those options will fix the Desktop switching issues, unfortunately.

Hope that helps.

I have the same problem. It started today at noon.

When I turned my computer on at morning everything was normal. There was no problem. Then I went out and turned it off. When I turned it on again mission control animations were glitchy. I tried every solution that I found in internet but none works. it happened suddenly. I think google chrome or mail.app is the reason of this glitch.

I even tried FSCK. nothing works. I'm gonna try to uninstall google chrome. Than I'll report you back.

is anyone have solution BTW?

Hi again,

I reinstalled Lion and I purchased clean my mac. still same. Also my mac is slower now.

Does anyone know any kind of solution?

I'm experiencing these choppy animations as well. It just started yesterday. I made no changes to the system that I can think of. I am working with a mid 2009 MBP 2.66 C2Duo 8g ram.

Last week I did a clean install of Lion and migrated my user account from time machine, due to some other boot issues. I'm really starting to think Lion is just not ready for prime-time. Maybe I will look into returning to 10.6.

-jerm!

I can also attest to choppy animations in Lion, specifically during mission control/expose.

I have a Macbook Pro 2010 2.66 Ghz i7 with 8Gb RAM, and recently installed a SSD in parallel with the HDD. I cloned my OSX installation to the SSD, so I now have two OSX installs - one SSD, one HDD.

Now, the issue seems to be confined to the SSD, since when I boot into the original HDD install, the choppy animation issue goes away. So I am left to assume it is a SSD-OSX interaction issue.

Can anyone shed light on this?

Anyone have any luck with 10.7.2 resolving this? I know I didn't. I'm at my wits end over it. Applecare suggests that I do a clean "erase and install" and start fresh with a new user account. I just don't have the time to deal with reinstalling apps and recreating my account.

-jerm!

Hi Jerm.

I tried too much ways to solve that problem. But only clean install works. But remember not to restore from time machine. So you need more time to restore your machine step by step. Only backup basic folder that only contains regular files (like music, photos, downloads, docs etc) do not back up any system or application files. They may corrupt your system again. For clean restore you'll need 5 - 7 hours depends your apps and files.

Only that way works

Ps: i didn't install any google products after clean install. Because only google and flash updates themselves without my permission. And in the middle of the day my machine corrupted. Check your pre-authorized apps that update themselves and stay out of them.

This is the only advice i can tell.

Hello,

Try this, it may works.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3198002?start=45&tstart=0

Well... now I'm just baffled. All of a sudden everything is fine. I have done nothing. The machine has been running all day. I came back to it after being away for an hour or so, and now all mission control animations are fine.

Don't get me wrong, I am thrilled that it has fixed without having to start a fresh install and new user account, but a bit alarmed that Lion is so unpredictable. 2-3 weeks of a consistant problem, then it just goes away? That makes no sense.

This is the last time I jump on a new OS... from now on I will wait for 10.x.5

I'll update if it changes again.

-jerm.

Muratjr,

I think you may be on to something with regards to Google products. The only thing I can tell that has changed on my system was that Chrome updated itself yesterday to v15.0.874.102. Is it possible that an older version of Chrome is what had been causing poor graphics performance system-wide?

my head hurts.

-jerm!

Jerm,

I really not master on mac as windows. So I used to work with pc since windows 95. But I work with mac in 1,5 years. I already don't know to uninstall every single file of a program.

So I just guessed google chrome may corrupted my system files. Thats why reinstall didn't solve anything. Chrome files had some conflict with other system files even you deleted the chrome. As you say when it's updated all problem gone.

is there any more glitchy or frozen animation in your computer?

BTW I always hate programs that updated themselves w/o permissions.

I'm glad you don't have to format and install all of them again.

-Mj

I don't think it's the chrome problem. Cos i installed lion clearly 15 days ago (my hdd was broken) and never installed any google products. But today it began again. Choppy again. I'll wait this time but i think flash is e problem, cos it happened after i watched full screen 1080p youtube video in max screen brightness.

I'm really confused. I don't think anyone from apple reads these posts. And I think there will be nothing to repair or update this.

Hi all.

I tried several things and now it works as smooth as butter again 🙂

I installed onyx and deleted all caches.

I opened every program which I opened yesterday than I switched mission control with slow motion (Shift + Cntrl + Up key) than everything is ok now.

I think some program left a corrupiton in system (cos default setting "open last closed window when program starts again" is making something I think) and When I opened all my program back corruption gone...

Worth to try. Better than "Format / reinstall lion"

btw: I already downloaded all updates and was ready to format HDD. That is luck I think.