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Snow Leopard Graphics Update seeds to developers

updated 06:15 pm EDT, Wed August 4, 2010

May fix VRAM, sleep problems


Apple is reportedly seeding a new update to Mac developers, simply called the Snow Leopard Graphics Update. As of build 10F2074, the code weighs in at 65.6MB. Although the exact problems it's supposed to fix are not mentioned, developers are being asked to focus on several areas. These include VRAM use, and problems with hot-plugging and waking from sleep.

Some Snow Leopard users are said to be complaining about game performance following the Mac OS X 10.6.4 update. Valve titles in particular may be affected, though the issue was earlier blamed on a combination of OpenGL, driver and game code. When the Graphics Update might go public is not yet clear.




by MacNN Staff

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  1. facebook_Kevin

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    Joined: Aug 2010

    +2

    Does it fix my Intel graphics not working?

    Cause they still don't. (mbp 2010)

  1. bdmarsh

    Fresh-Faced Recruit

    Joined: Feb 2006

    +1

    if it improves valve, it'll also help Starcraft 2

    10.6.4 seems to affect any 3D game running on NVIDIA chipsets, hopefully this is a fix for that, instead of having to wait for 10.6.5

  1. macvette

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    Joined: Feb 2004

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    VMware Fusion

    Hopefully this will fix the OpenGL error in Fusion, too!

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