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Thanks a lot for the Demo Video. So this looks exactly the kind of thing i am talking about. However i read youre on ATI Graphics which work way better to begin with on Mac OS X 10.6.4 and above zo begin with than the Nvidia ones, due to driver issues. I did a lot of reading an looking for related problems and Vertex Buffered Object are a pain since said Mac OS update containing a seemingly worse Nvidia Driver. Your specs even indicate ANYTHING should run smoothly on OpenGL I just hope i find some sort of advice weather Lion has better drivers for Nvidia Cards. In the end it would mean to me the only reason to upgrade honestly. Do you think making a screencast ond submitting it migth emphasize the need for improvement, both for Nvidia and LL? I would gladly make one to demonstrate teh nature of the problem I experience. I think developers just either put not enough efford in Macs or are simply too few.

Oh hello everybody. Running Phoenix and Firestorm on Snow Leopard right now. And while both do an awesome job on my MBP (Nvidia 9400M graphics) performance is not exaclty good. I found out that it is due to really bad drivers from nvidia ... So my question is in addition to how any current viewer runs on Lion in general, is the problem about inconsistent framerates with activated VBO fixed??? For those who do no know about it: VBO usually increases the framerate in OpenGL easily by 50% compared to it switched off, But since 10.6.4 the Nvidia driver was totally screwed up and caused to drop framerates heavily every time you turned around, meaning you looked in another direction. So in the end the function was useless and I went for racing/flying with low fps rather than having fps drops that freeze your view for seconds sometimes.