From what I understand, it has more to do with missing OpenGL instructions in the older cards. Something about not being able to handle a number of pixels not a multiple of some number - something along those lines.
Apparently, that ability didn't manifest itself until the Radeon came out.
-Rob
On Oct 21, 2004, at 12:12 AM, Garry Hamblin wrote:
Well, it does say on Apple's site that Quartz Extreme does work on ATI cards with 16m VRAM, so I assume there is something else I have overlooked.
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