[geeks] MacOS X and video cards

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Dave McGuire wrote:

> > with QE "acceleration" (with the property-list hack).  However, with
> > -that- much framebuffer in use, QE actually slowed things down because
> > it was saturating the PCI bus.
>
>    Hmm...overall responsiveness is important here.

It was snappy without QE.  QE on a PCI bus with big framebuffers is not
a good combination, which is probably why QE is turned of on PCI buses
by default.

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