[pman68]

Just letting people know about my experience with PCI Extreme and Panther. For people who don't know, PCI Extreme enables Quartz Extreme with Macs that have a 32 MB PCI card. In Jaguar, it worked well, but had Quicktime preview problems.

Well, I downloaded PCI Extreme version 2.1 and installed it on Panther. Viola! Works like a charm. (Download the latest version of Quartz Extreme Check 2.1 to make sure it was enabled). Speed increases most noticeable in opening finder windows. AND no Quicktime preview issues! Fast user switching now has the 3D effect as well.

A nice little 10%-15% gui speed jump.

As always, use at your own risk. Results may vary

[Geobunny]

Originally posted by pman68:

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Well, I downloaded PCI Extreme version 2.1
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Where did you get that from?

[pman68]

Check here:

PCI EXTREME

[SLam]

You can also enable it by editing:

/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Resources/Configuration.plist

Just change the line what says:

<string>IOAGPDevice</string>

into

<string>IOPCIDevice</string>