On Mar 21, 2004, at 6:17 PM, Barek Moon wrote:
No Altivec. The rotating cube effect is only on the G4's. The fast user switching still works fine, just > no cube. Same thing with the "slow suck" effect when minimizing. It want's the Altivec video engine too.
My iBook shows the cube. It's Quartz Extreme does it.
That, along with a Quartz Extreme-compatible video card. I believe in general, almost any AGP card (or on-board AGP, in laptops) with 16MB memory or above enables QE, with the exception of some of the Rage128 chipsets. It may be 32MB though, I forget exactly.
There's a fairly easy hack around (and a program that does it as well, "PCI Extreme") to enable QE on machines with a PCI video card, although it may sacrifice performance in other areas of the system, due to the PCI bus being "saturated" with too much video data.
-Stace
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