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Like many, I've been moving my machines from Chimera to Clover to fix up iMessage, etc. In doing so, one of the few surprises I ran into was related to graphics performance.

For example, I have one machine with dual (2) nVidia GeForce 9600 GT cards that operates smooth under Yosemite with Chimera an GraphicsEnabler=Yes. In moving to Clover, I assumed that using the nVidia Inject option would basically provide the same end result -- but it doesn't. QE/CI is still enabled, but some transitions (like going into Mission Control) are very poor in comparison. Something is different.

Which leads me to my questions.

Does anyone know (at a high level) how Chimera/GraphicsEnabler differs from Clover/Injection?

Are there configuration steps (beyond enabling injection) that people take in Clover to provide better performance?

So far that has been my only disappointment with the switch. I feel like I'm missing something, but without some idea of how these differ it's hard to say what. :)
 
Like many, I've been moving my machines from Chimera to Clover to fix up iMessage, etc. In doing so, one of the few surprises I ran into was related to graphics performance.

For example, I have one machine with dual (2) nVidia GeForce 9600 GT cards that operates smooth under Yosemite with Chimera an GraphicsEnabler=Yes. In moving to Clover, I assumed that using the nVidia Inject option would basically provide the same end result -- but it doesn't. QE/CI is still enabled, but some transitions (like going into Mission Control) are very poor in comparison. Something is different.

Which leads me to my questions.

Does anyone know (at a high level) how Chimera/GraphicsEnabler differs from Clover/Injection?

Are there configuration steps (beyond enabling injection) that people take in Clover to provide better performance?

So far that has been my only disappointment with the switch. I feel like I'm missing something, but without some idea of how these differ it's hard to say what. :)

You should probably compare injections in ioreg (and perhaps other details available there).
 
You should probably compare injections in ioreg (and perhaps other details available there).

Thanks! Sounds like a great place to start.

So would it be correct to say that Clover's "Inject nVidia" and Chameleon's "GraphicsEnabler" both are just making their best attempt to inject working configuration for the cards based on information they gather from them?
 
Thanks! Sounds like a great place to start.

So would it be correct to say that Clover's "Inject nVidia" and Chameleon's "GraphicsEnabler" both are just making their best attempt to inject working configuration for the cards based on information they gather from them?

They don't really "gather" much information. They inject some stuff based on other flags/configuration and the device-id. I don't know much about nvidia, but on Intel Clover's mechanism/config is less automatic but more flexible.
 
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