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WoW graphics distortion

After upgrading to 10.5.5 i got grafics distortion playing wow. It begins after a couple minutes of playing and becomes worser. After resetting to default setting it becomes ok for another couple of minutes and then again... Everything is…

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@azazthot Published 2008-10-30
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Leopard 10.5
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3,791 historical reads · 3 curated field notes (from 5 dispatches) · 2008-10-30 – 2008-11-03
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@Aydinz (3)@azazthot (2)

After upgrading to 10.5.5 i got grafics distortion playing wow. It begins after a couple minutes of playing and becomes worser. After resetting to default setting it becomes ok for another couple of minutes and then again...
Everything is marvinized.Geforece 8500gt with efi string. The rest of OpenGL apps (googleearth etc.) working perfect.
I reinstalled wow twice...
It work ok un WMware fusion vista, but naturally slowly.So it is irritating to reboot into vista just to play.
Where should I check? (i guess that it is an opengl issue, but...)

Author Updates & Technical Revisions

Follow-up dispatches by @azazthot

Author Update #1 @azazthot 2008-11-03

I put my old asus geforce 7300 le 128 mb card and it solved the problem,... but the performance is naturally not the same..

is it issue of xfx 8500gt 512 card?
what can i do to solve it?
8500gt 512 is still better than 7300 le 128.

I have no injectors (nvinject. natit nvkush etc are deleted) - use efi string method through osx86tools

Synthesized Community Field Notes

3 technical responses curated from 5 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @Aydinz 2008-10-30

what are the graphics drivers you have installed at the moment? LOL if worst comes to worst you can always go back to 10.5.2 that's what I did and it fixed a lot of software issues I had

Field Note #2 @Aydinz 2008-10-30

I also think this should be in the questions problems and support section

Field Note #3 @Aydinz 2008-11-03

try installing the nvinject 0.2.1 and zeph's universal nvidia drivers and see how it works then.

Sources & Contributor Provenance (2 credited usernames · Thread #1531)
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@AydinzCore Contributor32008-10-30 → 2008-11-03
@azazthotPrimary Author22008-10-30 → 2008-11-03