On Feb 15, 2006, at 2:55 PM, Chris Placzek wrote:
Hey I use X-Plane too. Anyway, whats all this talk of quartz and core
image and such? How do I know if I have these? Im using a cheap
Radeon
9200 128MB.
Look in System Profiler under the Graphics/Displays.
It will have two lines
Core Image: Supported|Not Supported
Quartz Extreme: Supported|Not Supported
Both are mechanisms whereby some display processing is offloaded from
the CPU onto the video card.
<http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/coreimage/>
<http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/quartzextreme/>
QE has been around since 10.2, Core Image is new, in 10.4.
John Siracusa has an excellent description of both technologies
starting here:
<http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/13>
QE requires a 32 MB AGP Video Card, CI requires a programmable GPU,
Apple's web site lists the following as supported:
Core Image-capable graphics cards include:
* ATI Mobility Radeon 9700
* ATI Radeon 9550, 9650, 9600, 9600 XT, 9800 XT, X800 XT
* nVidia GeForce FX Go 5200
* nVidia GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
* nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL, 6800 GT DDL
Your system supports QE, but not CI.
I don't know how this ties in with X-Plane, because I don't know how
X-plane does it's graphics.
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