Enable QE on a Rage 128(maybe)

Captain Code · Sep 5, 2002

I've been looking at the file that controls Quartz Extreme
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Configuration.plist
and I think I might have gotten QE to work on my Rage 128 16MB card.

Here's the contents of my plist file:

Code:

&#8249;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&#8250;
&#8249;!DOCTYPE plist SYSTEM "file://localhost/System/Library/DTDs/PropertyList.dtd"&#8250;
&#8249;plist version="0.9"&#8250;
&#8249;dict&#8250;
        &#8249;key&#8250;GLCompositorConfiguration&#8249;/key&#8250;
        &#8249;dict&#8250;
                &#8249;key&#8250;GLCompositorMinimumDisplayDepth&#8249;/key&#8250;
                &#8249;integer&#8250;8&#8249;/integer&#8250;
                &#8249;key&#8250;GLCompositorMinimumVRAM&#8249;/key&#8250;
                &#8249;integer&#8250;8&#8249;/integer&#8250;
                &#8249;key&#8250;GLCompositorRequiredClasses&#8249;/key&#8250;
                &#8249;array&#8250;
                        &#8249;string&#8250;IOAGPDevice&#8249;/string&#8250;
                &#8249;/array&#8250;
                &#8249;key&#8250;GLCompositorUseOnPortable&#8249;/key&#8250;
                &#8249;true/&#8250;
                &#8249;key&#8250;tileHeight&#8249;/key&#8250;
                &#8249;integer&#8250;128&#8249;/integer&#8250;
                &#8249;key&#8250;tileWidth&#8249;/key&#8250;
                &#8249;integer&#8250;128&#8249;/integer&#8250;
        &#8249;/dict&#8250;
&#8249;/dict&#8250;
&#8249;/plist&#8250;

I don't know for sure that QE is working (at least partially) but I noticed that things seem to be faster now once I rebooted after I made the changes.
This might just be my imagination, or might be just the affects of a reboot.

Anyways, try it out and see if you notice a difference.

BTW, changing these values shouldn't hurt your computer as they are only minimum settings for QE.

QE WAS enabled in early builds of Jaguar(which I've deleted DOH!), so this is what I'm comparing the speed I have now to.

I notice a big speed up in Mail.app after these changes and it seems WAY faster at loading messages, deleting, etc.

I don't have the cursor drop shadow, and the Quartz Extreme check program says I'm not accelerated, but I'm convinced that my machine is faster.

Enable QE on a Rage 128(maybe)

Captain Code

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