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Authored by: MattHaffner on Aug 29, '02 12:41:25PM

This util becomes even more useful with <a href="http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=8300945231&m=7390915135">this tip</a> from the Ars Technica Mac forum, which allows those of us with PCI cards (still need to meet the VRAM requirements) to enable QE. There are a few anomolies, but many tasks are indeed faster.

BTW, the cursor has a shadow thing is just hogwash. I don't know where this started, but I had a shadow (+white border) before enabling QE. Stop the madness! :)



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ok so now what>
Authored by: graphite24 on Aug 29, '02 03:44:42PM

Yeah so I tested to see if QE was enabled and apparantly it is not.

So What do I do to enable it????

thanks



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Authored by: cgbrewer on Sep 08, '02 09:14:33PM

I can confirm on that the cursor does NOT have a shadow on a Grape iMac 333 with clean install of 10.2, not running QE. Conversely, the cursor does have a shadow on a 15" LCD iMac with a clean install of 10.2 which IS running QE.

First hand experience; adding to the madness.



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Authored by: trevor on Sep 09, '02 05:35:38PM

MattHafner wrote:
> BTW, the cursor has a shadow thing is just hogwash. I don't know where this started,
> but I had a shadow (+white border) before enabling QE.

I suspect either you are referring to something different as the shadow, or else you did already have QE enabled before you thought you did. On my G4/450 with Radeon AGP the cursor clearly has a shadow, on my G4/466 with Rage 128 Pro (and thus QE disabled) the cursor clearly does not have a shadow. (Both are running 10.2) The white border is there regardless.

Trevor



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Authored by: Aran Crowe on Dec 27, '02 03:28:14PM

In the Configuration.plist file (/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A/Resources/), where you edit the file to enable QE on a PCI graphics card, you could probably also modify the minimum amount of vram required to run QE. The lines in question look like this:
<key>GLCompositorMinimumVRAM</key>
<integer>16</integer>
So if you had an 8MB PCI graphics card, you could theoretically still run QE., if you changed them to something like this...

<key>GLCompositorMinimumVRAM</key>
<integer>8</integer>

Not that I recommend or condone any such behavior.Your computer, your fault.

-Aran Crowe



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Not fully hogwash
Authored by: ihafro on Mar 14, '03 12:09:25AM

"BTW, the cursor has a shadow thing is just hogwash. I don't know where this started, but I had a shadow (+white border) before enabling QE. Stop the madness! :"

Apple states that the cursor shadow should only be enabled on systems that use QE. As we've seen this isn't fully true, it seems rather random. I never had the drop shadow until I installed a Radeon 7000. So my theory is that the drop shadow will appear if you have a video card that COULD handle QE (i.e. the Radeon 7000 PCI is the same as the 7k AGP, just with the slower bus)

Not that helpful, but at least you know where the rumor started....



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