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10.2.5 performance issues
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Vienna, Austria
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After updating to 10.2.5 I am experiencing some severe performance issues.
I am using OS X on a PowerMac G4 500 with an ATI 8500 installed. After updating to 10.2.5 my DVD Player refused to run. It says: "DVD Player encountered a serious error. The current machine or system configuration is not supported. [-70013]".
My screensavers are now damn slow, for instance Flurry runs now in Preview mode (in the System Preferences) slower than it used to be in full screen mode under 10.2.4. In full screen I achieve only estimated 2 frames per second. iTunes visualisation is also slower, but not as slow as the screen saver. It performs about 13 to 14 frames per second. Before the update I used to get 18 frames per second.
I also get bad performance when watching MP4 or AVIs with Quicktime or VLC, especially when turned to full screen. Two or three frames per second is what I am getting.
When trying to run the game "Medal of Honor" which uses a lot of 3D stuff, it doesn't work either. When starting I get the message:
"agIChoosePixelFormat failed" and in a second error message it says "Couldn't start OpenGL".
Now over to the funny part: When logging in as root on the same machine, everything works as it should. Screensavers are fast, MP4s and AVIs are fast and DVD Player works. Does this make sense to anyone?
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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Download the standalone updater and run it again, also run the fix permissions.
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Join Date: Mar 2003
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Yea... Medal of Honor for me ran just fine after the update.
Ming
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A Proud Mac User Since: 03/24/03
Apple Computer: MacBook 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 3 GB Memory, 120 GB HD
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Originally posted by nobitacu:
Yea... Medal of Honor for me ran just fine after the update.
Ming
Thanks for your responses. It was an issue with wrong permissions. I repaired the permissions with Disk Utility and it now works fine again.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Atlanta, GA
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yea, i'm to the point now where fixing permissions is just part of the update process for me. seems to always have a few goof ups in that area.... although i think a lot of it is i only reboot this machine when there are updates for the system 
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Oregon
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Originally posted by spockie:
Now over to the funny part: When logging in as root on the same machine, everything works as it should. Screensavers are fast, MP4s and AVIs are fast and DVD Player works. Does this make sense to anyone?
Yes. I'll bet you experience the same thing if you create a new user and log in under that ID. For some reason, often used accounts tend to slow down over time for some users. Root is probably a seldom used account (at least it should be); you probably shouldn't even have it enabled, but that's another thread.
Edit: An archive search should yield more info as this slow-down issue has been extensively discussed on this board previously.
(Last edited by Rainy Day; Apr 12, 2003 at 04:44 PM.
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