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Quartz 2D Extreme, is it epiphenomal?
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Does Quartz 2D Extreme actually do anything? I have permanently enabled it on my PB 12" (1.5 GHz G4, 768MB RAM, 64MG GeFX5200) and I am not sure if it is helping or hurting my performance. Interestingly, it upped my XBench score from 129 to 138.96, but that is just a synthetic (and wildly inaccurate) benchmark. Has anyone noticed any advantage to having it enabled? Under 10.40 (upgraded from 10.4 RC1 (8A425), upgraded from panther), it actually seemed to make the machine SLOWER. Since then, however, I have reformatted and done a clean install of 10.41 (which, as an aside, seemed to resolve a lot of weird bugs I was having--if you have the time to back up sh1t (what's with the censorware), I'd encourage you to do a "clean install" of tiger as well), it seems that there may or may not be a difference. Perhaps it is a placebo effect. Oh well, at least my machine isn't slower with in active. Anyone have a similar experience with 10.41 and Quartz 2D Extreme?
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scrolling in safari is faster. The dock is slower though...
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iMac DVSE 400 640mb + AL PB 15" with 1 gig + iMac 2,8 with 4gb + MacBook Pro 2,53 with 4gb
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I enabled Q2DE permanently on 10.4.0, ran fine, it felt snipper...
After upgrading to 10.4.1 where they Apple tinkers with the graphic drivers,
Q2DE will cause my screen to stop refreshing and I cannot see any
movement of mouse. Try ssh into the machine, doesn't respond...
Need a power reset to turn it back on...
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The PowerBook forum is for discussing PowerBooks, not Mac OS topics that are applicable to multiple product lines.
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