Apple address 10.6.4 graphics performance issues

by Alex McLarty

Nearly two months after Valve reported that some of their games ran poorly on 10.6.4, Apple update their graphics drivers:

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

Any improvements?

About Alex McLarty

Alex McLarty was the Editor of The Mac Gamer from it's launch until June 2011. His favourite videogames are Fallout, Deus Ex and most of Valve's catalogue. He has a cat named Cash.

2 Responses

  1. Dimitar Panov says:
    August 18, 2010 at 07:47

    Well, according to Valve:
    “We are seeing dramatic performance improvements 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) and MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2010) models. Depending on the game, video settings and the hardware, we have measured frame rate improvements from 15% to 120% on these systems.”
    source: http://store.steampowered.com/news/4211/

    So, yeah, there should be pretty good performance increases. I started up TF2 this morning for a few minutes before going to work and increased the graphic settings and the resolution, and I can say the game ran pretty decent, far more acceptable than before the update with the same settings.

  2. Bloodraven4453 says:
    August 19, 2010 at 18:47

    Want a game of PR with you!