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Animated effects inferior in Leopard?

  • 13-12-2007 3:47pm
    #1
    Gerard_Smith
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    This is something I have been noticing since I upgraded to Leopard. Dock magnification the genie effect and expose are all choppier than they were in Tiger while new effects like Spaces and grid stacks also splutter noticeably. My Mac is a 2.16 GHz C2D iMac with 1GB of Ram and a 256mb Radeon X1600 graphics card. At first I thought this might have been caused by upgrading rather then choosing a clean install but apparently many people are noticing this problem even on new machines with Leopard pre-installed. In fact it has been theorised that this might be the reason apple removed live previews in the dock. That Leopard, or more specifically Core Animation, is having some teething problems that is effecting the performance of animated effects.

    Has anyone here experienced this?


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  • #2
    Sad Professor
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    I haven't really noticed anything like that with my imac. It's a 2GHz C2D with 2GB RAM. I don't use dock magnification but Expose and Spaces seem fine. More RAM might help, Leopard definitely need more (1GB was barely enough for Tiger imo). Either that or you've got something running in the background that's eating up a lot of CPU.

    OS upgrades gradually become more bloated and resource heavy anyway. Leopard is no different I'm afraid.


  • #3
    babypink
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,250 ✭✭✭babypink


    i've noticed no degradation in performance after moving to leopard. granted i'm not running a shiny intel box, but nevertheless i'm happy.


  • #4
    triple h
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    I have a 2GB RAM and i did an upgrade. I have seen no problems, in fact i love leopard.

    People were saying that safari seems slow but i see no diff. in fact the web pages seem crystal clear to look at in leopard to me, but that could be my imagination, don't know.


  • #5
    Gerard_Smith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭Gerard_Smith


    Hmm people other than me have complained of this as I say even people with a new Mac with Leopard pre-installed. There seems to be a pretty much 50-50 split between people experiencing it and not. Interestingly there is also a problem reported of images viewed in preview being blurry which I have not experienced at all. I have however noticed previews in iphoto are more blurred than in Tiger. I think there is enough anecdotal evidence that Leopard is having some graphical bugs.


  • #6
    Type 17
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    Both my Aluminium 2.4GHz iMac and the wife's 2.GHz MacBook (both with 2GB RAM) were slow in the first few days of Leopard use. There was a noticeable increase in instances of the spinning pinwheel for a few seconds when opening apps, docs etc.
    This was after the initial indexing by Spotlight (no dot in the centre of the magnifying glass).
    CPU usage on Menumeters showed no unusual peaks during the pinwheel periods, so it wasn't apparent what was happening.

    However, the good news is that both machines seemed fine after a few days and are now at similar speeds to their Tiger performance.


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