[geeks] nVidia 8800GT for Apple Mac Pro

[Mark]

On 21 May 2008, at 07:11, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:26:59AM -0400, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> I was actually surprised to see much 2D difference, but then I  
>> remember a
>> few years ago reading about the 7300 having some problems, and was
>> surprised Apple used it.
>
> You'd be surprised at how much "2D" stuff Apple offloads to the GPU.
>
> For example - on my G3 B&W, 450Mhz, 10.3 and 10.4 were "choppy" when  
> moving
> windows around, etc, until I did the hack that enables Quartz  
> Extreme (2D)
> on the Radeon 7000 (PCI).  After that, it was "smooth".

Just an aside, you have to be cautious with the QE hack, especially on  
cards with lower VRAM, as it can overload the VRAM and crash the PCI  
bus if you have too much going on on screen at once, window-wise.  
Bitter experience speaks volumes ;).

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