Great job with the OS X stuff! VO 1.8.4.1 on my Leopard 10.5.2 iBook gets me around 70% more fps...so that's what HS actually looks like...:D

Thanks guys!

Excellent, glad to hear the changes helped. Unfortunately, something like this happens with every major OS X revision. We basically disabled something that had made the game run *faster*, previously (and had been apple-recommended). Such is the life of the game developer. Anyway, great that it's a big improvement.

Huge improvement! I turned vertex buffers, index buffers and vertex array back on in my config file and frame rates are now double what they were before 1.8.4.1. It's like a whole new game. :)

Virtual beers for everyone!

does this mean that performance on tiger is worse than before?

epa: it's probably hardware-dependent. Plus, I think Ray is selectively detecting 10.5 and changing which vertex buffers are used based on that, if so.. tiger would be unaffected.