Bad Graphics Performance

[clamshell]

I was wondering what I might do to get Leopard's Quartz working faster?

 

The problems are these:

1. Bad minimization performance, animations skip
   
2. Beachball of death appears too often
   
3. Sluggish Spaces animations
   

It's really annoying me. I'm using a 10.5.2 system updated from a Leopard Kalyway 10.5.1 DVD.

After the update, graphics performance did improve, but there are still a few issues.

 

I'm using a GeForce 8600 GTS with Scotdangel NV-Inject. Yes, Quartz extreme is working, I am using DVI ports, I tried using the other DVI port and tried a few tweaks like Beam Sync disabling and enabling Quartz 2D Extreme, but I ended up dropping them.

 

I'm pretty annoyed because I feel that my GPU is more than competent to deal with a few textures and shaders. It can handle sophisticated games just fine but can't render a desktop.

I might also mention that it works just fine in Linux with Compiz Fusion or Windows Vista.

 

Any help please?

 

PS: I also use a Core 2 Duo E6400 CPU and 2.5GB of RAM.

[JMacalinao]

You can try getting the modified 9.2.0 kernel from netkas. It gave me some performance improvements, albeit minimal. And yes, I can feel your frustration - I seldom get sluggish animations with my 8600 GT, especially if there are simultaneous animations going on the desktop.

[codyman]

My 8600gts 256mb runs fine with leopard, never slows down. Only thing i had to do was delete the "&" between the device ids in the info.plist files.