Enabling Quartz 2D Extreme

picaman · Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 2:20 pm Post subject: Enabling Quartz 2D Extreme

Very interesting post on the apple.com support site.

From the post:

"Most users read Apple's Tiger Promotional material and get excited about Quartz 2D Extreme. Few are the number of users who dig down in their OS only to be greatly disappointed to discover Apple has Quartz 2D Extreme is disabled when Tiger is installed by default. If you don't want to wait for Apple to throw the switch in a future software update, keep reading."

Has anyone done this? Or is anyone willing to try it and report back? I'd do it but I'm the guy who waits a few days to install software updates, and buys rev. B hardware.

Laughing

Jamie

devo · Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:19 pm Post subject:

Wow! I haven't heard anything about this. Quartz 2D Extreme isn't listed in my System Profiler. Confused

ba747heavy · Member Joined: 09 Sep 2005 Posts: 94

I'd like to try, but I can't seem to get past the first part where I create the plist. I run the program but I don't get the plist. Oh well.

FC

Susurrus · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 1:40 pm Post subject:

Did it. Substantial speedup, I think. Of course, it could just be the Placebo effect going on. Dashboard seems smoother along with MenuMeters updating. Switching folders in Finder seems like it's a lot quicker as long as the hard drive is spun up.

I would recommend doing this. I haven't had a chance to test this with D2x, as I have that running with software acceleration. That should now be partially hardware accelerated through Quartz 2D Extreme as most of the effects are 2D. I'll test it and post back here.

Some more observations:

Still haven't played D2x, but I will eventually.

Opening Sysprefs is a lot faster in that it is populated with icons immediately instead of gradually as before. Using the Scale effect for minimizing windows is a lot smoother now. Dashboard is also crazy fast.
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caulktel · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 1:52 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I just finished doing it and would have to agree that opening and closing windows seems faster. I have to wonder though, why Apple did not turn this on by default, maybe it causes some other problem they haven't fixed yet?

picaman · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:22 am Post subject: Problems

I subsequently read that some people had problems with window redraws. Have you noticed this problem at all?

Smile

Jamie

Leander · Member Joined: 23 Oct 2005 Posts: 237

what is quartz 2d?

it sounds like a graphics card or something.

PeteC · New Member Joined: 22 Aug 2005 Posts: 14

Is the "com.apple.windowserver.plist" file generated by the Quartz Debug app the same for every Mini? If it is, could someone send me a copy to try out? I don't I have the dev tools installed so can't easily create it myself.

Cheers,
Pete

Susurrus · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:44 pm Post subject:

g5g5 · Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:51 pm Post subject:

Doesn't sound like a good idea. Check this line out from the 10.4.3 update. It's on the bottom of the page.

"Disables Quartz 2D Extreme—Quartz 2D Extreme is not a supported feature in Tiger, and re-enabling it may lead to video redraw issues or kernel panics."

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301984
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caulktel · Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:02 pm Post subject:

Mine still shows supported after the update.

picaman · Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 4:25 pm Post subject:

g5g5 · Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 4:42 pm Post subject:


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