Aperture 3.1.3 Display errors (fullscreen) and Brush size issues with MBA 2011

MacBook Air 2011 13 i5 256 GB

Lion with all patches etc.


Using Aperture 3.1.3 ends up with the following issues for me:


1. Fullscreen graphic errors

While using the fullscreen editing mode combined with any brush, zoom into the picture with "cmd +" and apply the brush. The screen becomes heavily distorded with parts of the image appearing in flickering big squares all over the screen. Happens everytime I use a brush after zooming or panning around in a picture.


2. Selecting brush size

In general (fullscreen or windowed) whenever I select a brush and try to change its size by slider or manuel size entry, the brush crosshair gets distorded, or better, gets set aside while sliding through smaller brush sizes. The result in these cases is, that the cursor and the center of the brush crosshair do not align! Using brushes becomes quite troublesome this way.


So far I tried:

- Uninstalling (AppZapper) and reinstalling Aperture

- Using Aperture in a different, new and unchanged user profile

- reinstalling Lion via Internet recovery


Interesting facts: Cloned my whole System to an USB disk (SuperDuper!) and booted up my Late 2008 MacBook Pro. No issues with Aperture at all!

Went to my local Apple Store in Oberhausen and plugged the USB disk in a stock display 2011 MacBook Air 13 and booted the system from it! And behold: all issues were there again!


My conclusion so far: either the MacBook Air suffer from a generel hardware error or a general driver issue. Strangely no one except me seems to have these problems so far???

Posted on Aug 15, 2011 12:32 PM

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Aug 16, 2011 10:12 AM in response to samfromrialto

Follow-up from my earlier post

Called Apple Support today and they were quite understanding of the problem this presents but had no answers. I talked to both the Hardware and Software side of the fence and the final remark was we will all need to wait for Apple to see if others have the issue before anything can be done to investigate and possibly fix the issue. It is also remarked by the Aperture support person that it is most likely an issue with then new MacBook Airs. I am now using Lightroom while this gets sorted out and it appears to be working but it is still early. 😉

Sep 30, 2011 1:28 PM in response to MarcelMarquis

MBAs are the weakest of the 2011 hardware choices, especially as regards graphics - and Aperture has always heavily utilized graphics. Apps like Photoshop and Aperture typically show up weak hardware support via anomalous behavior with large brushes.


Maybe it is a "bug" but my guess is that folks are just observing the consequences of lower end hardware - - just like we have observed with PS for decades.


Relative graphics strength of 2011 Macs:

http://barefeats.com/mini11_02.html


-Allen Wicks

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