On Apr 4, 2005, at 3:55 PM, jason zwiefel wrote:
G4'd 500 mhz B&W with 512 mb ram, ATI xclaim vr rage pro video capture card. Is there any problem with using the latest version of x?
Nope.
What's the deal with Quartz?
I'm going to assume you mean Quartz Extreme <http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/quartzextreme/>.
Quartz is to OS X as quickdraw was to OS9; the fundamental technology behind everything you see. Quartz Extreme is a means of offloading some graphics processing normally done by the CPU to the video card, which typically is a lot faster at these sorts of calculations. See the web link above for details.
It speeds up a lot of stuff, notably UI performance, and is supported ony for AGP cards.
There'a a hack that will let you run it on a PCI card, but at most it'll get you a couple percent speed up due to bus speed issues with PCI versus AGP. In return, you also get greater crashing!
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