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[TwistedSystems]

Summary
The Snow Leopard Graphics Update contains stability and performance fixes for graphics applications and games in Mac OS X v10.6.4.

Products Affected
MacBook (13-inch, Early 2009), MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2010), MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010), MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010), iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2009), Mac Pro (Early 2009), Mac mini (Early 2009), Mac OS X 10.6.4, Mac mini (Mid 2010), iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010), iMac (27-inch, Mid 2010), MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2010), Portal, StarCraft II, Team Fortress 2
What's included?

The Snow Leopard Graphics Update contains stability and performance fixes for graphics applications and games:

Addresses frame rate issues occurring in Portal and Team Fortress 2 by Valve, on iMac (Late 2009 and Mid 2010), Mac mini (Early 2009 and Mid 2010), Mac Pro (Early 2009), MacBook (Early 2009 and Mid 2010) and MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010) or MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2010) models.
Resolves an issue that could cause Aperture 3, or StarCraft II by Blizzard, to unexpectedly quit or become unresponsive.
Resolves an image corruption issue that may occur when disconnecting and reconnecting external displays while the system is running.

Check your updates or download straight from Apple.
Snow Leopard Graphics Update

[xopher]

Works for me.

[TwistedSystems]

Anybody see any improvement?

[floordance]

Can I install that on a Hackintosh or will it harm my setup/kexts?

[Mohamed Khairy]

works without any problem with hd5xxx
it contain v 8557  

[blackosx]

Thanks for the heads up TwistedSystems.
I have updated without any issues with my 8800GT 512MB.

[TwistedSystems]

floordance, on Aug 17 2010, 05:51 PM, said:

Can I install that on a Hackintosh or will it harm my setup/kexts?

You should be alright.

blackosx, on Aug 17 2010, 06:00 PM, said:

Thanks for the heads up TwistedSystems.
I have updated without any issues.

No problem, I was reading up on updates and developer seeds, and said hmmm, today is Tuesday, I wonder if the update will be released today. Boom, there it is, on software update. Nice.

[diafebus]

i tried on my imac 27 i7, and starcraft 2 works good now on graphics set on HIGH as recomended, not as before that i only could play with medium ^^

so great.

[Jamesisnotonfire]

I've just updated, is it me or do things look crisper?

[FKA]

nothing gained but nothing lost here

[mitch_de]

At least the pre Final SN Leo Graphics update made my VMare Fusion stall (Vmware Panic Opengl.... in log). Fusion didnt crash but must be killed.  
I will wait for Nvidia GPU + Vmware Fusion users until i install that, because non of my games (also Steam) worked much faster on my 8800GTX with the Pre Final update.

[diafebus]

if you read about the update it tells that upgrade so especific game performance

[Godzillar]

My EVGA GTX 285 is still not fully functioning after this graphics update :< Starcraft 2 and Portal are slowwwwww compared to Snow Leopard 10.6.3. My Build is Core i7 920 +  GA-EX58-UD5.

[xforce]

Just a bit of information on this, it updates the Nvidia drivers to: 19.5.9f02

CUDA will prompt for an update with these drivers (if you have CUDA installed) but an update is not available as of yet.
Just thought i'd share that info in case someone here needs CUDA.

[an1r0n]

What if you have older, 8800GT graphics ? Did anyone tried with that?

Thanks!

[mitch_de]

mitch_de, on Aug 18 2010, 01:48 AM, said:

At least the pre Final SN Leo Graphics update made my VMare Fusion stall (Vmware Panic Opengl.... in log). Fusion didnt crash but must be killed.  
I will wait for Nvidia GPU + Vmware Fusion users until i install that, because non of my games (also Steam) worked much faster on my 8800GTX with the Pre Final update.

Apple has fixed that problem. Final SN Leo graphics update didnt stall VMWARE (like the pre final update).

[q64ceo]

w00t

Brought back native QE/CI for 4650 cards without 10.6.2 kexts

Edit: Holy crap, OpenGL extension viewer show an increase of 100FPS on all 1.0-2.0 tests.

Edited by q64ceo, 18 August 2010 - 07:28 AM.

[digital_dreamer]

No QE/CI on my 4870 X2 after the update.
Applying Netkas' Exotic patch for 10.6.4 doesn't help or hurt.

May do a 10.6.4 combo update and revert to original setup.

MAJ

[Mr-Mur]

No change at all, testing QE/CI performance

[fireedo]

Updated succesfully on my acer aspire 4740G intel i3 and Geforce 310M but seems like nothing change nor improvement....