Imac7,1 freezes with severe graphics issues after bad-tv filter

firsttly, sorry, this could be a double post, i think i forgot deleting the old one in the wrong category.
well, i don't really know if this is a common issue or whether this is firmware or snow leopard related: if i apply the bad-tv filter in fcp7 (fcs3) my screen is going crazy after a few seconds: squares and dots in all kinds of colours etc...then snow leopard freezes and i have to force a reboot. everything else is working great! any ideas or related problems out there?
i've got the 1.3 firmware update. clean install!

I was teaching an FCP class today, and I had the same problem with the Bad Film filter on four new 24" iMacs, each with 256MB ATI Graphics Card.
They were all running SN 10.6.1 and FCP 7.0.1

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There is no bottleneck. You misread my issue.
The 3D graphics are perfectly fine. The X1900 performs to my expectations in every single game I own. The frame rate is high in every single game. The issue is that "time" itself seems to slow down, even though the framerate *remains the same*.
This is some sort of weird software bug or timer issue. Performance wise, the system is fine.
The official ATI drivers had no impact on the issue. The issue originally started when I was running XP x86 and Bootcamp 2.0 drivers. I upgraded those to the official ATI Catalyst drivers, which made no difference. I reformatted the entire machine- and installed the Bootcamp 2.1 drivers. No effect.
And let's hope you put Windows on its own dedicated disk drive, and not the poor man of the lot, try putting it on an nice $78 WD Caviar 640 or something.
I didn't even use Bootcamp (the utility). I have 4 500GB drives, 3 of which are dedicated to OS X. I removed those three, leaving in only the forth, and formatted the entire drive as a MBR partition map with an NTFS primary partition. Therefore, the forth drive is 100% Windows and nothing else.
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Nothing at all. As I've said before, *performance is fine*. Framerates are good. Most games I can crank to 1920x1200 at high settings (sans Crysis). Spore looks and runs fine. VALVe games look incredible.
The issue has nothing to do with performance. As I've said, it's that the "game time" is running slow. The framerate is fine. Since this has nothing to do with the load of the machine (time should be a constant), it is some sort of obscure firmware, software, or hardware bug. This effects both Spore and Valve games (and others?). In both cases, "game time" and animations run in slow motion. They are NOT jerky or suffer from any performance related issues on the X1900. They're just running in slow motion.
Rebooting a few times clears the issue. Performance stays the same, but game-time resumes it's normal pace.
Buy a PC video card can work, or 8800GT, or hope the Radeon 3870, but with both of those, on 1st gen Mac Pro, you are better off with Vista.
Again, why? My X1900 may be loud, but it flies. I am happy with this machine. I keep it clean, and it keeps running stable for me as a result. Except for this issue under Windows XP 32 with game time running slow-mo, I have no quirks with this machine.
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