Re: Dock and stack graphics still being corrupted by running games in 10.5.3 :-(

On Jun 17, 6:40 am, Ric <infobub...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 14 Jun, 07:31, jami...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jamie Kahn Genet) wrote:



Tim McNamara <tim...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1iiiz0i.1l6chfl1oje70mN%jami...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 jami...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jamie Kahn Genet) wrote:

Super DX-Ball (which I just got - excellent game BTW) results in a
long standing common graphical glitch with the Dock and stacks,
making fan stacks totally useless until I restart my iMac. Killing
and relaunching the Dock doesn't fix it. Only restarting my Mac
temporarily sorts it out. This is a highly annoying bug most often
set off by games that Apple STILL hasn't fixed as of 10.5.3. So I let
every developer (who I do not blame, BTW) know whose product results
in this bug, in the hope they will apply pressure to Apple. Leopard
has been the buggiest release since 10.1 IME and Apple is taking
there sweet time about crushing such crippling bugs. Suffice to say
it's really pissing me off.

You're probably trying to pressure the wrong developers.  It's the game
developers screwing this up, not Apple.  Game developers are famous for
trying to find shortcuts, especially in drawing to the screen, and
trying to get around the programming guidelines.  Instead of Apple not
having fixed the bug, I think that it's more likely that your Super
DX-Ball developer is the culprit.  Pressure them to fix what they've
fucked up instead.

It happens with Blizzard's WoW, Diablo 2, Starcraft, Freeverse's Enigma
and Wingnuts, Ambrosia's Aperion... hell, I could just list most of my
games folder. It's also happened with Apple's DVD player when it goes
fullscreen (though that is much rarer than the games which often result
in a stuffed Dock). This has occured over three 24" iMacs and multiple
Leopard installations.

So I don't think it's a developer problem. It's Apple not fixing
Leopard.

*sends more angry feedback to Apple*

Regards,
 Jamie Kahn Genet
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I've not heard of this before: are you sure it's not something like
your graphics card overheating, or bad system RAM?  I don't think it's
a known bug and so is probably an issue with your mac, rather than
Leopard as a whole...

I'm getting the exact same problem on a brand new 20" imac... On the
first day of use, I got the exact same issue as you did with the fan
view. There seem to be a few people with the same issue, but no
solution yet. In my case, it is not related to any video games, since
I don't have any installed. The only thing I installed was office 2008.
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