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I did it! Jezus it's faster! And Buggy!
Authored by: kidventus on May 09, '05 12:09:17PM
I am a sucker for this (hell I came from the Linux world) so I had to enable it and reboot. Mine was off by default as I assume most are. Dear lord my G4 1.25 Ghz Powerbook is so fast now! You can tell the difference. HOWEVER, it is not ready yet and Apple was wise to turn it off. On the login screen, clicking on different users causes a video card "garbage" effect that fills the screen like a buggy graphics card. Some other images are garbled when moving too.. kinda like it's a framebuffer issue. I think this is because it's too fast, but you'd have to enable it to see what I mean... it's not smooth. Some eye candy effects don't happen, windows just "appear". I'm probably gonna turn it back after I play some more.

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I did it! Jezus it's faster! And Buggy!
Authored by: LEgregius on May 09, '05 12:31:55PM

Odd. I haven't noticed any performance change from panther, even if I turn it on in the Quartz debugger and run applications. I haven't noticed any bugs either. I have 1GB of ram and a radeon 9600 with 64 MB and it was turned on by default for me, as I said above.



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I did it! Jezus it's faster! And Buggy!
Authored by: chabig on May 09, '05 12:35:26PM

Are you sure you're talking about Quartz 2D Extreme and not plain Quartz Extreme? Tiger has Quartz 2D Extreme off by default, but Quartz Extreme is on.

Chris



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I did it! Jezus it's faster! And Buggy!
Authored by: LEgregius on May 09, '05 12:48:13PM

The key in com.apple.windowserver.plist says

Quartz2DExtremeEnabled - Yes

Whether or not it's actually using it, I have no way of knowing, but the settings say it is and quartz debug says it's on too.



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I did it! Jezus it's faster! And Buggy!
Authored by: LEgregius on May 09, '05 12:56:49PM

apparently if you force quit quartz debug, it will stay that way. it's possible I did that, which is why it is still on for me.



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I did it! Jezus it's faster! And Buggy!
Authored by: tim1724 on May 09, '05 03:16:34PM

yes, it does have bugs. It had bugs in the developer seeds, too, and I think it's a pretty safe assumption that Apple left it turned off because of the bugs. I'm sure they're working on it, and a future update to 10.4 will probably enable it.

I've seen the garbage in the login window (it happens during the animation after you click on a username) as well as occasional problems in other windows. I once had the screen fill with odd vertical stripes when the system crashed completely .. since then I haven't enabled Quartz 2D Extreme. I'll wait until Apple decides it's ready.


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Tim Buchheim



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I don't agree
Authored by: zedwards on May 09, '05 10:22:48PM

I'm on a 12" PB 1.33 and if anything, according to Xbench, made my system slower by half.



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I did it! Jezus it's faster! And Buggy!
Authored by: auricgoldfinger on May 13, '05 09:11:17AM

I noticed on my powerbook G4, 1.5GHz, 128VRAM, 512RAM, Tiger no change in speed. I noticed the buggy login-window-movement AND the smooth scrolling in Adium (as included in the milk-mokie and protoscrollmod themes) is SO MUCH SLOWER then before!
Any suggestions? I noticed too that the plist isn't binary anymore (after I changed the setting to "true")



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I did it! Jezus it's faster! And Buggy!
Authored by: auricgoldfinger on May 13, '05 09:22:24AM

And I forgot: it's using all my processor power ... :-(
No, I'm changing it back. I so wanted it to work ...



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