[kulverse]

I just installed my PCI Radeon into a G4 450MP with 512Mb RAM in order to run 2 monitors. While 3D gaming is great, it seems that using Power Windows and iTunes "Live" window moving has created an extreamly choppy experience. So much so, that I disabled the Power Windows Control Panel. Scrolling seems exceptable and If I turn off acceleration on the ATI menu, everything slows to a crawl, as expected.

So i know the Radeon is doing 2D acceleration...Just really slowly. The same problem with OS X. My 128 Pro had windows flowing around smoothly, but the Radeon makes it a bit choppier(better than power windows in 9.1 however)

As I said earlier, 3D gaming is great with the Radeon. no problems there.

Any one else?

Thanks,
Brian

[This message has been edited by kulverse (edited 04-12-2001).]

[spicyjeff]

Make sure you have all your ATI drivers enabled and up to date. 2D acceleration on my Radeon is blazingly fast (except in OS X but that's another story).

[kulverse]

I disabled some of the extensions that OpenGL added for ATI and some 128 specific extensions and things seem to be a little better. OS X acceleration sees a little better too, once I took out the card and moved it to another PCI slot. I hear that ATI will be putting out a new driver that supports Anti -aliasing and all. Can't wait.

[kulverse]

Strike that. I have almost zero QT Acceleration. Minimal, but better than before, 2D acceleration and AWSOME 3D Acceleration in OS 9.1. I'm using Radeon Driver 1.1.1. i have reinstalled it several times now. I'm assuming my card is defective. Acceleration is checked in the ATI menu.

I seem to remember, back in August or so,a few articals saying that the Radeon had poor 2D acceration. i've searched for those articals and can't find any. O well. Broken card.