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Apple Seeds 'Snow Leopard Graphics Update' to Developers

Apple has reportedly seeded a new software update called "Snow Leopard Graphics Update" to developers. While the exact focus of the update in testing is unclear, it appears from the areas in which developers are being asked to focus their…

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@eMatoS Published 2010-08-05
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OSx86 Core & 10.X
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6,384 historical reads · 1 curated field notes (from 3 dispatches) · 2010-08-05 – 2010-08-18
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@eMatoS@scififan68@Snow

Apple has reportedly seeded a new software update called "Snow Leopard Graphics Update" to developers. While the exact focus of the update in testing is unclear, it appears from the areas in which developers are being asked to focus their testing that it addresses several aspects of graphics performance including VRAM utilization and hot-plugging and wake-from-sleep issues. The general release notes claim only that the update addresses reliability of "graphics applications and games".
Check this ↗ thread for some extra info.

If you wanna test it out, It seems the update for the Mid 2010 iMac has some of these improvements already, here's (support.apple.com/kb/DL1065) the download page, you can try installing only the video related kexts and frameworks with pacifist cause it won't install if your system is not an imac mid 2010.
My 8400gs is performing a lot better with this (did some tests before and after but didn't save the data )

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1 technical responses curated from 3 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @Snow 2010-08-18

Updates works but does anyone know why my install panics when I run important updates (with kext installation) in 64bit (which I run mac in)

32bit mode works fine though

Any ideas? Thx

Corroborated & Participated: @scififan68
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@eMatoSPrimary Author12010-08-05
@scififan68Contributor12010-08-06
@SnowContributor12010-08-18