Espionage724 Posted May 22, 2010 Share Posted May 22, 2010 I have heard that OpenGL was reduced somewhat in 10.6.3 but it's real bad for me. - In StarCraft 2, I get 2 FPS and mad graphic glitches. - The OS itself though is snappy though So my questions are: 1. Do GMA950 owners with 10.6.3 notice reduced performance? 2. Is performance better in Leopard or anything lower then 10.6.3? 3. Is performance reduced THAT much when compared to ^ ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/219077-gma950-snow-leopard-1063-terrible-fps/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
avalan Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 Srsly, 2 FPS in OpenGL at SC2 isn't bad. It's more than I expected. It's a "feature" of your graphics card - GMAs are {censored}. Buy a new one. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/219077-gma950-snow-leopard-1063-terrible-fps/#findComment-1475136 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shine-away Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 They are fine for a fancy gui (Aero or QE+CI), but don't expect to do some decent gaming on it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/219077-gma950-snow-leopard-1063-terrible-fps/#findComment-1475273 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espionage724 Posted May 25, 2010 Author Share Posted May 25, 2010 Srsly, 2 FPS in OpenGL at SC2 isn't bad. It's more than I expected. It's a "feature" of your graphics card - GMAs are {censored}. Buy a new one. I know it's {censored} but surely it has to be better then that? Unless OS X drivers really suck that much when compared to any other OS (even Linux)? But I would of expected a big company like Apple supply drivers that were better then ones supported by a open community on Linux? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/219077-gma950-snow-leopard-1063-terrible-fps/#findComment-1475493 Share on other sites More sharing options...
avalan Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 This is not about driver. GMA950 is just a {censored}. Even my GMA 4500MHD is crappy, both under Windows and Linux (no Mac OSX Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/219077-gma950-snow-leopard-1063-terrible-fps/#findComment-1476140 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunForHire Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 This is not about driver. GMA950 is just a {censored}. Even my GMA 4500MHD is crappy, both under Windows and Linux (no Mac OSX Wow, way to be unhelpful people. For the record, I noticed a significant degradation in performance using that card after updating to 10.6.3. I've tried using supposedly patched kexts for 10.6.3 but these just give me a blank screen when I try to boot. I'm not sure how to resolve this but nobody has been any help in my topic on this issue so far either. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/219077-gma950-snow-leopard-1063-terrible-fps/#findComment-1525326 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davirus Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 Yes, people on this forum are a bunch of retarded people, but there a few ones who can shine. Btw, yes, the slow performance is only on Snow Leopard. I managed to Run Doom3, UT2004 and Homeworld 2 on Leopard (10.5.8) much faster that in windows. I just upgraded to snow leopard and I can`t even reproduce the animation on my Adium window. I need to add that the system (quark express i guess) animations are smooth and faster than I experienced on Leopard. On Leopard i used patched kexts for my video, here in Snow Im using retail and native video kext. Not sure if that it`s the problem, but I would be expecting a mayor performance using native drivers than the patched ones. Still looking for a solution for this. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/219077-gma950-snow-leopard-1063-terrible-fps/#findComment-1687661 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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