[kick52]

Hi.

I hope this in the right forum.

Anyway, I got tiger on friday (Yay!) and its great apart from dashboard there is nothing wrong with it apart from i remember seeing in various videos about the ripple effect when you lay down a new widget, and also the flip effect when you go to the settings options on a widget. but this doesnt happen. currently my setup is my PM G4 in my sig. 10.4.2.

i think my old AGP Ati card (its the stock one that came with every G4\400. in system profiler, it says coreimage and quartz extreme is disabled.

any help? is there anyway of enabling the effects?



thanks in advance, tim (kick52)

[OreoCookie]

No, your graphics card does not support these effects, you need a core image-capable graphics card.

[TETENAL]

You don't need a core image-capable graphics card for the flipping effect. Only for the ripple.

[harrisjamieh]

And, IIRC, there is no graphics card for the G4 machines with AGP that is core image capable that one can buy, so even an upgrade won't help ya out, your just gunna have to live without the eye candy

[Cadaver]

Originally Posted by harrisjamieh

And, IIRC, there is no graphics card for the G4 machines with AGP that is core image capable that one can buy, so even an upgrade won't help ya out, your just gunna have to live without the eye candy

Not true.

The ATI Radeon 9800 Pro is compatible and will support all the current effects.

There are older 128MB versions floating around, but the newest revision has 256MB of VRAM.
I prefer OWC, but you can buy from whomever you wish.

Beware that on eBay there are a lot of Windows PC versions of these cards that have been modified/flashed to work on a Mac. While they might be reliable, my advice would be to stay away. Others might disagree (but everyone is entitled to an opinion, even if its wrong ).

[harrisjamieh]

Shows what I know...