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Apple releases Snow Leopard Graphics Update 1.0

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Installed and working fine on my systems. According to Apple...

The Snow Leopard Graphics Update contains stability and performance fixes for graphics applications and games, including fixes that:
• address frame rate issues occurring in Portal and Team Fortress 2 on certain Macs
• resolve an issue that could cause Aperture 3 or StarCraft II to unexpectedly quit or become unresponsive
For more information about this update, please visit this website:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4286

Direct link to download: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1083

ATI Users- don't update without fixing your kexts:
Netkas has now released a QE/CI patch for the new graphics update for 4890/4870x2 cards (4870/4850 don't need this). Get it from his web-site: http://netkas.org/
 
Tested on my system as well and confirmed working. I don't have any tools/programs to test graphics so I don't know if this has led to any performance improvement.

This update doesnt eliminate the need to use ATY_init, right?

-AC3
 
Hi, updated and working perfect.

I test with cinebench, no great changes, before 31fps, after 33fps.
 
Installed it on my HD5770 machine.
Testet it with Starcraft 2 and CS:Source, got really big performance improvements, especially with enabled FSAA.

Starcraft 2 (1920x1200, Ultra)
Before: about 15 FPS
Now: about 25-30 FPS
Win: about 45 FPS

CS Source: (1920x1200, everything max)
Before: about 20 FPS (with 8x FSAA enabled, without about 80)
Now: 80-100 FPS (8x FSAA)

Nice! :)
 
This seems to cause compatibility issues with the Cuda 3.1.10 drivers. I'm now getting a message that the Cuda drivers require an update, but none is available.

Tim
 
tonymacx86 said:
Installed and working fine on my systems. According to Apple...

The Snow Leopard Graphics Update contains stability and performance fixes for graphics applications and games, including fixes that:
• address frame rate issues occurring in Portal and Team Fortress 2 on certain Macs
• resolve an issue that could cause Aperture 3 or StarCraft II to unexpectedly quit or become unresponsive
For more information about this update, please visit this website:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4286

Direct link to download: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1083

Tony is that with or without Graphics enabler? I removed ATY kext and it crashed on startup. Did you remove yours and are you in 64 bit mode now?
 
After installation of the graphics update, on my Sapphire ATi 4890, QE/CI became disabled (tested by dropping widget on dock - no animation). Also, can't play any Steam games, as card comes up as an Unsupported Video Card. Have tried re-installing netkas 10.6.4 patch but features still remain disabled. QE/CI and Steam were working before patch installation.

As tonymac uses an Nvidia card and the same Gigabyte motherboard as me, I can only assume this problem is unique to ATi cards, or just unique to my Mac (running SL 10.6.4). Anyway, will see what others report, and if there is a solution for this, over the next couple of days.
 
Hi Mr Tonymacx86.

This graphics update is interesting, I have loaded it and it appears to work ok.

I am running it on with a MSI R5770 Hawk card loadd running in 32 bit mode (ATI_INIT).

I have also loaded it on my real imac and notice in S/L/E it has loaded ATI5000Controller.kext which was not there prior to the update, so methinks that is good news for the hackintosh which I am also able to call a macpro5,1 (new MacPro 2010) which previously cause chameleon to reboot when loading.

just hoping that you and Macmanx will be able to get the ATI 5XXX cards to run in 64 bit.

Brgds/Tonyd.
 
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