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Quartz 2D Extreme..What is it?
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I was bored today so I was going on wikipedia and reading all the articles about Mac OS X and saw the Quartz article. I went on google and found this. I followed the directions and enabled it. I can tell the difference when playing Star Wars battlefront so I thought it was good. But I read the comments on the article and people seem to be having problems with animation and all that eye candy OS X has. What is Quartz 2D Extreme exactly, and should I have it enabled? (This is all done on my Powerbook G4)
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ArsTechnica explains Quartz 2D Extreme, and why it's disabled by default (bugs), pretty well in their article on Tiger; give it a read.
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Originally Posted by Velocity211
I was bored today so I was going on wikipedia and reading all the articles about Mac OS X and saw the Quartz article. I went on google and found this. I followed the directions and enabled it. I can tell the difference when playing Star Wars battlefront so I thought it was good. But I read the comments on the article and people seem to be having problems with animation and all that eye candy OS X has. What is Quartz 2D Extreme exactly, and should I have it enabled? (This is all done on my Powerbook G4)
I think the effect in SW Battlefront is probably a placebo, since games don't use Quartz at all. It's supposed to speed up normal (non-opengl) apps, but it doesn't really work in 10.4.x.
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Originally Posted by Catfish_Man
I think the effect in SW Battlefront is probably a placebo, since games don't use Quartz at all. It's supposed to speed up normal (non-opengl) apps, but it doesn't really work in 10.4.x.
I also disbled dashboard so that freed up a lot of memory, that's probably why it got faster. So I'm guessing the bugs affect photoshop performance?
(Last edited by Velocity211; May 15, 2006 at 02:08 PM.
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I experienced my first kernel panic so I quickly disabled it. I really hope apple perfects it for 10.5. Xbench reported the Quartz test almost 3 times as fast as before.
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Originally Posted by Velocity211
I also disbled dashboard so that freed up a lot of memory, that's probably why it got faster. So I'm guessing the bugs affect photoshop performance?
Other than the kernel panics, iirc it slowed down Safari. Hopefully they'll get it worked out.
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I think the fix for the benchjs regression would also fix this, since it prevents WebKit from trying to draw at more than 60fps. This is probably the same problem that Q2DX had.
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