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[BUG-7575] Graphics issues with GT 650M in Mac OS X Yosemite Release #15268

Open sl-service-account opened 10 years ago

sl-service-account commented 10 years ago

Steps to Reproduce

Normal SL activities

Actual Behavior

I am running a Retina Macbook Pro - the graphics drivers may be badly borked. If I have SL and Photoshop open at the same time, SL performance is degraded badly, then when I switch into PS, the images that are there all go black. I am now running the release version of Yosemite. I had no difficulties on Mavericks. I can run two sessions of the viewer in high graphics and with Photoshop on my Yosemite iMac and get 30fps. - so it is something in Yosemite with the GT 650M, I would guess. Not sure if it really is an SL bug or the drivers from Apple. First found this in Firestorm - see the thread there - http://jira.phoenixviewer.com/browse/FIRE-14527

Expected Behavior

Normal SL activities

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Original Jira Fields | Field | Value | | ------------- | ------------- | | Issue | BUG-7575 | | Summary | Graphics issues with GT 650M in Mac OS X Yosemite Release | | Type | Bug | | Priority | Unset | | Status | Accepted | | Resolution | Accepted | | Labels | mac_yosemite | | Reporter | Soho SpiritWeaver (soho.spiritweaver) | | Created at | 2014-10-20T14:52:52Z | | Updated at | 2016-01-30T21:22:43Z | ``` { 'Business Unit': ['Platform'], 'Date of First Response': '2014-10-20T10:25:05.311-0500', 'Severity': 'Unset', 'System': 'SL Viewer', 'Target Viewer Version': 'viewer-development', 'What just happened?': 'I am running a Retina Macbook Pro - the graphics drivers may be badly borked. If I have SL and Photoshop open at the same time, SL performance is degraded badly, then when I switch into PS, the images that are there all go black. I am now running the release version of Yosemite. I had no difficulties on Mavericks. I can run two sessions of the viewer in high graphics and with Photoshop on my Yosemite iMac and get 30fps. - so it is something in Yosemite with the GT 650M, I would guess. Not sure if it really is an SL bug or the drivers from Apple. First found this in Firestorm - see the thread there - http://jira.phoenixviewer.com/browse/FIRE-14527', 'What were you doing when it happened?': 'Normal SL activities', 'What were you expecting to happen instead?': 'Normal SL activities', } ```
sl-service-account commented 10 years ago

Whirly Fizzle commented at 2014-10-20T15:25:05Z, updated at 2014-10-20T15:26:49Z

This problem was discussed at Oz's usergroup today and Cinder Roxley said that Apple for some reason reverted back to older Nvidia drivers in Yosemite.

sl-service-account commented 10 years ago

Soho SpiritWeaver commented at 2014-10-20T17:16:08Z

I can definitely confirm it is the GT 650M driver - I forced the graphics to the onboard Intel, turning off the GT 650 and got 25-30fps with high graphics and ALM enabled.

sl-service-account commented 10 years ago

Whirly Fizzle commented at 2014-11-05T20:32:38Z

Soho SpiritWeaver added a comment - Yesterday

I have mitigated the problem somewhat on my MacBook pro -

  1. Turned off ALM in the FS viewer
  2. Went into Yosemite system preferences - Accessibility and checked Reduce Transparency (this turns off the transparent windows and menu bars)
  3. Went into Yosemite System Preferences - Mission Control and turned dashboard off (this was suggested on a gaming forum)

This seems to help somewhat (I also keep the dock hidden)

Of course this comes with the standard 20-20 warranty - 20 feet or 20 seconds, whichever comes first