Some animations are choppy

[mdimovv]

Hey,

MacBook 13 inch mid-2012 here.
When i was on Lion 10.7.4 all animations were great snappy and awesome.
When i updated to 10.8 Mission control, app folder open, calendars app are 10 fps down - still usable but choppier. Although switching between spaces, scrolling in Safari and many other are great like 60+ fps.

Anyone experiencing something like this? Suggestions?
Probably going to be fixed in future updates...

 

[Skoopman]

I had choppy animations while switching through desktops. Doing a clean install now.

 

[MasterHowl]

I've got a mid-2009 MBP and the only thing that's choppy on mine is flipping pages in Calendar... must be a software issue, because my machine's ancient now...

 

[fb0r]

I suspect it's graphics driver issues.

I've got three Macs and the one that is particularly struggling with UI animations (especially swiping between desktop spaces) is my old 2010 MacBook Air 13" (w/4GB RAM and the 2.13GHz CPU). I traced some of the desktop sluggishness back to the dock which, when visible, makes switching between desktop spaces (I usually use two or three) noticeably choppy when compared to how they were on Lion and Snow Leopard. If I hide the dock then switching between my desktops is smooth as silk. My guess is that it has to do with the drivers for the 2010 Air's nVidia graphics as most other animations in the UI are perfectly smooth.

To add to that I've seen Mountain Lion on another 2010 MacBook Air 13 (baseline) and it has the exact same issue when swiping between desktop spaces while the dock is shown.

In comparison my 2011 Sandy Bridge Air has no problems at all with any UI animations which is remarkable since the Intel HD3000 graphics are just about as powerful as the previous MacBook Air generation's nVidia graphics...

The calendar app is entirely another matter. All my Macs struggle with the page flipping animation etc so obviously something's up with that app.

Cheers, fb0r

 

[Hephaestus]

I've got a mid-2009 MBP and the only thing that's choppy on mine is flipping pages in Calendar... must be a software issue, because my machine's ancient now...

Same for me, everything is buttery smooth except for flipping pages in calendar. I'm running a 2009 MBP 15" 2.66GHz and 8GB RAM.

 

[netnothing]

2010 Mac Pro......switching between desktops is choppy for me.

-Kevin

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

I see this also when moving from desktops and mission control.

 

[netnothing]

Anyone else seeing the flickering when using the screenshot tool?

I posted this in the other thread I started....when I use:

CMD + Control + Shift + 4

The crosshairs that popup with the coordinates are stutterey as I move the mouse.

-Kevin

 

[dixido]

Anyone else seeing the flickering when using the screenshot tool?

I posted this in the other thread I started....when I use:

CMD + Control + Shift + 4

The crosshairs that popup with the coordinates are stutterey as I move the mouse.

-Kevin

I also see the same flickering on my 2010 15" MBP.

Although it's not the end of the world for me I hope they will fix it rather soon.

 

[netnothing]

I also see the same flickering on my 2010 15" MBP.

Although it's not the end of the world for me I hope they will fix it rather soon.

Thanks for letting me know. Overall I'm thinking Apple screwed a lot up with the graphics drivers in ML. Hopefully 10.8.1 comes in a few weeks and fixes some things.

-Kevin

 

[motorazr]

+1 guessing a graphics driver thing.

My 2011 MBA (11", i7) has very rarely had trouble with smooth graphics between exposé, mission control, spaces, etc. . . but mission control and a few other things randomly are choppy.

Also, the iMac had a rough transition in safari into the tab view... haven't done too much on the iMac yet tho. Overall happy with the system

 

[mdimovv]

Guys something strange happened here.
Was opened Safari, Xcode, Preview, Activity Monitor, App Store and playing with the dock. And then tried App Grid animation and buttery smoothness like on Lion - even better. Tried Launchpad, Mission Control - the same. That was on 15:45PM, till now.
Changed wallpaper, played a bit and... now it is not smooth again at some animations.
MacBook Air 13" 2012 here.
Trying to reboot now and see what happens.

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

eternalstorms posted this on twitter.

 

[Roofy.]

Anyone else seeing the flickering when using the screenshot tool?

I posted this in the other thread I started....when I use:

CMD + Control + Shift + 4

The crosshairs that popup with the coordinates are stutterey as I move the mouse.

-Kevin

you only need cmnd shift and 4.

 

[iGuybrush]

Quote:
Originally Posted by kbmb
Anyone else seeing the flickering when using the screenshot tool?

I posted this in the other thread I started....when I use:

CMD + Control + Shift + 4

The crosshairs that popup with the coordinates are stutterey as I move the mouse.

-Kevin
I also see the same flickering on my 2010 15" MBP.

Although it's not the end of the world for me I hope they will fix it rather soon.

Same here, also on a MBP 15" 2010. Cursor flickers when trying to get a screenshot, but also do it randomly when hovering the mouse over some elements (Mail text editor, web pages elements...).
I think this only happens with the intel card.

 

[netnothing]

you only need cmnd shift and 4.

Cmd + Shift + 4 = saves to a file
Cmd + Control + Shift + 4 = saves to clipboard to paste in other apps

Same with the 3 option.

-Kevin

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Same here, also on a MBP 15" 2010. Cursor flickers when trying to get a screenshot, but also do it randomly when hovering the mouse over some elements (Mail text editor, web pages elements...).
I think this only happens with the intel card.

Well I have a Mac Pro 2010 with the ATI 5870.....that's a 1GB RAM card.....I'd expect ML to be buttery smooth....but it seems Apple couldn't give a crap to program for cards like that.

-Kevin

 

[mdimovv]

Cmd + Shift + 4 = saves to a file
Cmd + Control + Shift + 4 = saves to clipboard to paste in other apps

Same with the 3 option.

-Kevin

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Well I have a Mac Pro 2010 with the ATI 5870.....that's a 1GB RAM card.....I'd expect ML to be buttery smooth....but it seems Apple couldn't give a crap to program for cards like that.

-Kevin

No problems with Screenshot tool here.

 

[netnothing]

No problems with Screenshot tool here.

I'd hope you wouldn't have the flickering on a mid 2012

-Kevin

 

[mdimovv]

I'd hope you wouldn't have the flickering on a mid 2012

-Kevin

Try this - immediately after waking up from sleep, try some animations - with my Air now after wake-up it is again buttery smooth, and after 5 secs it isn't.

 

[Set845]

I clean installed the GM release on a 60GB partition on my mid 2011 i7 16 GB RAM with 1 GB AMD. I found animations were smoother than Lion everywhere. Yesterday I updated to Mountain Lion on my main partition and deleted the GM partition. I noticed choppy animations as you describe so I repaired permissions. I noticed a bunch of core animation files needed repairing. After a reboot all animations everywhere were smooth again. I hope this helps.

 

[netnothing]

Try this - immediately after waking up from sleep, try some animations - with my Air now after wake-up it is again buttery smooth, and after 5 secs it isn't.

I'll have to try this later.

I clean installed the GM release on a 60GB partition on my mid 2011 i7 16 GB RAM with 1 GB AMD. I found animations were smoother than Lion everywhere. Yesterday I updated to Mountain Lion on my main partition and deleted the GM partition. I noticed choppy animations as you describe so I repaired permissions. I noticed a bunch of core animation files needed repairing. After a reboot all animations everywhere were smooth again. I hope this helps.

Permissions repair is clean now. Was done right after install and I've rebooted multiple times as well as a Safe boot.

-Kevin

 

[digitalgopher]

Not choppy but slow

Anyone notice this -> it's not necessarily a choppy animation as per the OP but a different, slower animation than in Lion:

when swiping across desktops (both left and right), I get super smooth sliding action until almost the very end when the desktop slide is almost settled. it's not a stutter, but a general slowdown in the pace of how quickly the 'slide' settles to rest as compared to how it used to be in Lion. This is on a MacBook Air (Late 2010) and iMac (late 2009).

it's almost a second or so longer, but quite noticeable... and a tad bit annoying. I liked the slide better in Lion.

anyone else experience this?

 

[netnothing]

Anyone notice this -> it's not necessarily a choppy animation as per the OP but a different, slower animation than in Lion:

when swiping across desktops (both left and right), I get super smooth sliding action until almost the very end when the desktop slide is almost settled. it's not a stutter, but a general slowdown in the pace of how quickly the 'slide' settles to rest as compared to how it used to be in Lion. This is on a MacBook Air (Late 2010) and iMac (late 2009).

it's almost a second or so longer, but quite noticeable... and a tad bit annoying. I liked the slide better in Lion.

anyone else experience this?

Between my Mac Pro with ML and my old White Macbook with Lion....I do notice this very subtle difference when switching desktops by swiping (or in my case Control Arrow).

It's almost as if in ML, they are slowing it down right before it finishes.

-Kevin

 

[Set845]

I see this too. Try a fast swipe. The space snaps right in.

 

[digitalgopher]

I see this too. Try a fast swipe. The space snaps right in.

I'm not familiar with fast swipe (and am not in front of my Mac atm). is it an option in Settings?