iGame Radio

Inside Mac Games has posted a great interview with AMD’s Chris Bentley, the company’s Mac 3D Manager. Click on the link below to get the full interview.

IMG: Has the transition to Apple’s new Lion OS been a smooth one? Do OS releases generally lead to a variety of graphical glitches that need to be tracked down?

CB: It’s been really smooth, except I can’t figure out how to scroll any of my windows down… Seriously, I know there have been a few graphics issues that people have run into, but overall I’ve been really happy with how few bugs slipped through. Every OS release involves some changes to the drivers, and the key thing to understand is that _everything_ that draws to the screen comes through the drivers: every window drag, every dock animation, every translucent drop down menu, every character added to a document, every triangle of every game. Given this fact, it’s very easy for a change in the driver to break _everything_. The solution to this problem is: obsessive levels of testing…

To read the full interview, click here.