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| | Quartz Compositor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Quartz Compositor is the windowing system that is responsible for the user interface in Mac OS X. | | | With Mac OS X v10.4 Apple introduced Quartz Extreme 2D, and with it speeded up the actual drawing operations as well, so that as much of the compositing and drawing was taken over by the graphics card as possible. | | | This allows the Mac OS X windowing system to be "agnostic in terms of a drawing model" and gives it the ability to create impressive visual effects, such as the genie effect as a window is minimized to the Dock. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_Compositor
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| | Quartz is an umbrella term that describes the core technologies used by Mac OS X to render images. | | | Quartz 2D (formerly "Core Graphics Rendering") is a vector-based 2D drawing library. | | | As stated earlier, QE is a reimplementation of the Quartz Compositor using OpenGL--a description that should make a bit more sense to you now. |
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http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.2.ars/8
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| | Quartz 2D running in software using the CPU has to write to the backing store in RAM, then that backing store has to be moved to the video card where the Quartz Compositor can put it into the final scene. | | | Quartz 2D was notoriously slow at drawing lines in Panther and earlier versions of Mac OS X, so much so that developers often chose to use (or in most cases, "stick with") QuickDraw for such tasks. | | | Prior to Quartz 2D Extreme, keeping references to large pieces of data around long after the things they refer to have been used was usually considered a waste of memory for no significant performance gain. |
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http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/14
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| | Quartz (Macintosh) - The Jiggies Reference Guide |
| | Quartz is superseding QuickDraw which was used in earlier versions of the Mac OS, known as "Classic". | | | Quartz is based on version 1.4 of the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). | | | PDF is a universal file format that preserves all of the fonts, formatting, colors and graphics of any source document, regardless of the platform used to create it. |
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http://www.jiggies.com/reference/Quartz_(Macintosh)
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| | Avalon and quartz extreme- what gives? - Topic Ars OpenForum |
| | quartz has always been object oriented and stateful although as of 10.2 the quartz window server was not. | | | with 10.3 the quartz window server introduced a new paradigm of translating quartz objects into stateful, cacheable gl primitives and this is being greatly extended in 10.4. | | | quartz now has mechanisms to do the same; the window server would simply have to tell the window to do the quick redraw. |
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http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/48409524/m/893000839631/p/1
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| | IGM: OS X Journal: Closer look at Jaguar's Quartz Extreme |
| | Quartz Extreme will allow Mac OS X to offload most of these Quartz graphics to the graphics card, freeing up a significant portion of the CPU to work on other tasks. | | | Apple plans to use OpenGL to optimize the Quartz layer, which is kind of interesting. | | | The likely answer is that it's easier to bridge Quartz graphics to OpenGL, which is already supported and hardware accelerated in OS X, than to start from scratch and make Quartz hardware accelerated with existing hardware. |
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http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=393
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| | Neowin.net -> linux equivalent to quartz extreme or dce? |
| | Quartz extreme renders each window as a polygon and then bumpmaps the windows contents over it. | | | One thing quartz does not do is "render each window as a polygon and then bumpmaps the window contents over it" - though it is impressive all the same. | | | A view would be any component you can see, so for example a safari window will have views for: |
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http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=157941
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| | Feedback on Hack to Enable Quartz Extreme for Radeon PCI cards |
| | Hardware acceleration for Quartz Extreme on PCI machines has proven to boost performance by 5-15% when performing light tasks such as web browsing, e-mail, and word processing. | | | In fact, this is the first time I can remember the lack of Quartz Extreme functionality being so dramatically noticeable. | | | Though I was able to successfully install PCI extreme and get Quartz Extreme acceleration on my Mac (Sawtooth G4 upgraded with a dual 500 Sonnet upgrade card), I did notice an immediate side effect. |
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http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/OSX/quartz_extreme_PCI_mod.html
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| | MacGamer - Get In The Game |
| | What this means is that instead of Quartz forcing the CPU to take the brunt of the work, pasting all the separate windows, images and graphics together into one unified screen image, the GPU can do all the work for it, leaving the CPU free to perform other tasks. | | | Unlike the graphics system of every other operating system today, Quartz is based completely on PDF, used for the ubiquitous Adobe Acrobat files you find all over the web. | | | This is at 800x600x32, with all options on, ran three times and averaged; obviously your mileage may vary depending on your computer. |
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http://www.macgamer.com/features/?results_page=2&id=1257
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| | LEM/Mac Musings Quartz Extreme Empowers the G3 |
| | With Jaguar, Apple introduced Quartz Extreme, which moves the display processing from the Mac's CPU to the ATI or nVidia graphics processor itself. | | | Entry-level Macs don't use multiple processors, and Quartz Extreme minimizes the benefit of AltiVec as far as the display system is concerned. | | | For better or worse, Quartz Extreme requires 16 MB of video memory (and wants 32 MB for best performance), AGP 2x video (4x recommended), and a supported ATI or nVidia graphics subsystem. |
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http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/02/1231.html
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| | Graphics & Imaging - Quartz |
| | Quartz offers a sophisticated two-dimensional drawing engine and an advanced windowing environment. | | | Quartz's feature-rich drawing engine leverages the Portable Document Format (PDF) drawing model and offers Mac OS X applications professional-strength drawing functionality. | | | See how Quartz relates to other technologies in the Mac OS X System Architecture diagram. |
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http://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging/quartz
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| | OS X Odyssey 231 - The Quartz Extreme Conundrum |
| | In earlier versions of Mac OS X, the Quartz Compositor operated entirely in software and used the central processing unit (CPU) to position window content on individual layers. | | | One of the big conundrums is whether OS X Jaguar Quartz Extreme is supported adequately by the lower priced machine's 16 megabytes of the VRAM. | | | Quartz delivers crisp graphics, anti-aliased fonts, and blends 2D, 3D and QuickTime content together with transparency and drop shadows. |
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http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2002/12/20021227131042.shtml
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| | MacSlash Quartz Extreme dual display on rev B TiBook |
| | Using plain Quartz, the CPU renders the window contents and then initiates a DMA transfer to push it over to the graphics card. | | | So either way, you're still pushing the same number of pixels over the AGP bus, except with plain Quartz the CPU has more rendering work to do and it has to manage the transfer of the data over the the graphics card. | | | The fundamental problem with a 8MB VRAM machine is that actual card itself; the ATI Rage 128 just does not have the capabilities that Quartz Extreme takes advantage of. |
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http://macslash.org/articles/02/08/29/1541230.shtml
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| | Best explanation of Quartz 2D Extreme for a n00b? - Topic Ars OpenForum |
| | The interface will become snapier and since your GPU is taking on work that was previously done on the CPU those extra cycles can be used for more general purpose tasks. | | | The CPU no longer has to do any rasterizing, which is something it's not very good at in the first place. | | | And that appears to be the complete list of Quartz related bugs against Mozilla right now. |
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http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/8300945231/m/886008328631/r/886008328631
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| | Adobe Extreme |
| | As the fastest, most flexible implementation of Adobe printing technology, Extreme provides an integrated workflow that automates prepress tasks, optimizing output speeds and quality by using Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and job tickets. | | | Share your experiences with Adobe PostScript®, Adobe Extreme, Adobe in-RIP trapping, and Adobe PDF. | | | Adobe PDF technology and SMARTworks Enterprise Solutions take enterprise printing to a new level. |
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http://www.adobe.com/products/extreme/main.html
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| | Architosh: News > Apple's Quartz Extreme presentation at SIGGRAPH - PDF |
| | Apple's presentation was focused on the upcoming Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2) release and its new OpenGL and Quartz Extreme technologies. | | | Many existing OS X users will immediately be able to reap the advantages of Quartz Extreme and Apple's new OpenGL extensions because they have the requisite hardware. | | | New in Jaguar OpenGL will be system integration, texture upload performance, programmable shaders, lots of new extensions and some amazing new tools. |
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http://www.architosh.com/news/2002-08/2002c-0802-sig-quartz-x.phtml
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| | WinHEC 2003: First Look at Longhorn Graphics |
| | In any case, there are some great texts out there about how Quartz and the graphics layer of Mac OS X work to display the desktop. | | | This sounds like the Quartz Extreme graphics capabilities from Apple utilizing the latest Graphics cards to render each Window as textures. | | | It's the same thing described here - the display is no longer built up of simple grafports, but is instead composited dynamically in the same way layers of a Photoshop document are composited. |
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http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/38925/38925.html
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| | OSXGuide.com :: Mac OS X news,mac tips, mac tools, and free downloads |
| | All...read that...All graphics cards supported in MacOS X will work with Quartz Extreme. | | | Though 32 Megs of RAM of required for optimal performance, all of the above will WORK, so if you have one, you should answer "yes" in this poll. | | | Re: Will Your Graphics Card Work With Quartz Extreme? |
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http://www.osxguide.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=NS-Polls&file=index&req=results&pollID=17&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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| | Sneak preview: Engadget RSS feed as seen via Tiger Quartz Extreme - Engadget - www.engadget.com |
| | In terms of raw processing power, it has already been proven that a smaller cluster of G5's are more cost effective, stable, and faster than a cluster of Intel or AMD computers. | | | FYI: Quartz Composer is version 2.0 of PixelShox, a discontined (for reasons we now know) OpenGL animation application. | | | If anything it just shows the power of these two technologies and how they are integrated at the core level of the hardware and OS. |
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http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000807035571
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| | PDF Slide Show Explains Jaguar's Quartz Extreme - OSNews.com |
| | Especially if you own a G4, MacOSX 10.2 Jaguar has optimizations that will make your desktop almost twice as responsive when compared to OSX 10.1.5, even if you do not have a Quartz Extreme capable graphics board. | | | It will feature true system integration (Quartz2D on a texture, Video on a texture), improved texture upload performance, programmable shaders, many new extensions, and new tools. | | | The ATi RagePRO/128/Ultra as found in the older G4s/Cubes/Classic-iMacs, any iBooks purchased before 2 months ago or any other Mac that do not match exactly the above configurations, will not be supported by Quartz Extreme. |
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http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1464
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| | Everything Apple: No Quartz 2D Extreme for Tiger 10.4? |
| | Play DVDs live on the Dock icon when the DVD window is minimized (requires Quartz Extreme). | | | Do a Google search for "Quartz 2D Extreme" (with the quotes). | | | Introduced in Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar, Quartz Extreme replaced Quartz to offload portions of OS X's 2D display work from the CPU to the GPU. |
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http://everythingapple.blogspot.com/2005/04/no-quartz-2d-extreme-for-tiger-104.html
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| | AppleNova Forums - Quartz 2D Extreme? |
| | There is technically a way to enable Quartz 2D Extreme without using the Quartz Debug utility; it involves editing a.plist file ( \System \Library \Frameworks \ApplicationServices.framework \Versions \A \Frameworks \CoreGraphics.framework \Resources \Configuration.plist). | | | This was all done to avoid using Adobe's superior graphics engine to render graphics on the Mac (as that's how it was done on NeXT OS aka Mac OS X), and also to kill Quickdraw. | | | So they changed the name to Quartz Extreme -- and it is also largely ignored. |
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http://forums.applenova.com/showthread.php?t=6380
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| | Neowin.net -> quartz extreme ... ? |
| | From what I remember reading, the main enhancement of Quartz Extreme is when you are dragging windows. | | | Drag something around and watch the cpu level. | | | We won't get something similar for the next 3 years when the new MS operating system comes out. |
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http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=44518
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| | Tiger Quartz Extreme not as smooth as in Panther: Mac OS X 10.4.x (Tiger) *System*: MacFixItForums |
| | I would expect the problem will most likely be fixed in OS X 10.4.1. | | | Tiger Quartz Extreme not as smooth as in Panther: Mac OS X 10.4.x (Tiger) *System*: MacFixItForums | | | The Developer Tools include a "quartz debug utility" that can be used to switch Quartz Extreme on, but it switches off again as soon as you quit the debug utility. |
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http://www.macfixitforums.com/php/showflat.php?Board=tiger&Number=690414
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| | QUARTZ EXTREME |
| | Per sfruttare Quartz Extreme un computer Macintosh deve essere dotato di una scheda grafica con almeno 16 MB di VRAM installata, in caso contrario la tecnologia non viene attivata dal Sistema Operativo. | | | A partire dalla versione 10.2 del suo sistema operativo Mac OS X, la Apple Computer decise di estendere la sua tecnologia grafica chiamata Quartz con nuove funzionalita. | | | Questa nuova versione prese il nome di Quartz Extreme. |
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http://www.24pm-affiliation.com/encyclopedia/Q/Quartz_Extreme
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| | Quartz - Wikipedia |
| | Ab Mac OS X 10.2 wurde Quartz Compositor mit Quartz Extreme erweitert. | | | Quartz hat eine Komponentenarchitektur mit den folgenden Bausteinen: | | | Dieser Artikel erklärt die Bildschirmdarstellungstechnik Quartz von Mac OS X. |
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http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz
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| | Apple Xtreme Dan's Inbox |
| | How can I tell if Quartz Extreme is working on my computer? | | | The easiest way to test is to open up a Finder window and move your mouse cursor over a white spot. | | | I read about some of the new features and I couldn’t resist. |
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http://www.applextreme.com/inbox_standalone.php?id=2
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| | Apple announces first rack servers, P2P, chat, web services The Register |
| | Thus, "Quartz Extreme", as it's called, relieves the main CPU of drawing the eye candy, but will only be available on machines with AGP 2X and 32MB of memory and above. | | | It is a shame it isn't based on Jabber, the excellent open source IM service which telcos have begun to adopt because of its presence features, but Apple judged compatibility with the installed base was more valuable. | | | In another important announcement, Apple said Jagwire would enable modern graphics cards to take much of the load by "pipeling" Quartz via OpenGL to the card. |
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/06/18/apple_announces_first_rack_servers
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| | Quartz Extreme Check 1.2 - MacUpdate |
| | Quartz Extreme Check is a small Cocoa app that checks if the machine is using Quartz Extreme (OpenGL acceleration for Quartz) in Mac OS X 10.2. | | | Email me when Quartz Extreme Check is updated (member feature) | | | Add Quartz Extreme Check to your Watch List (member feature) |
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http://www.macdownloads.com/info.php/id/8969
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| | Macworld: News: iBooks, Quartz Extreme and G4 chips |
| | Steve Jobs has said that it would be "optimized" for a graphics controller with 32MB of RAM. | | | As for the things that people want to use their computer for in terms of playback, as opposed to content creation, the iBook is absolutely a viable machine." | | | Quartz Extreme will be a hardware accelerated Quartz graphics and compositing engine. |
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http://www.macworld.com/news/2002/06/17/ibook
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| | The Cult of the Cool-Mac...: Why is Jaguar Slow? |
| | Only AGP 2x or better graphics cards with 16 megs or more of VRAM will work with Quartz Extreme. | | | Such video cards do not work with Quartz Extreme. | | | If you have such a system and Quartz Extreme does not appear to be running, then try unplugging the monitor cable from your PCI video card and then rebooting. |
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http://www.cool-mac.com/archives/000053.html
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| | macosxhints - 10.4: Permanently enable Quartz 2D Extreme |
| | I have just set Quartz2D Extreme to be on (in the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist file only), and overclocked both the processor and memory using the ATIccelerator SystemPreference, and I must say that it really rocks! | | | It is also possible to edit the plist file that controls this feature directly. | | | Tiger includes a major new graphics technology called Quartz 2D Extreme. |
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http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2005050121260474
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| | Quartz Extreme. How Extreme? - The macosxhints Forums |
| | I think us Ti550 users can just barely run QE, that's why it's hardly any faster, but I guess it might reduce the CPU load lightly (honestly when I checked CPU monitor, it doesn't seem much lower than before). | | | Regarding to Apples description the Ti550 should use Quartz Extreme (QE), since it has a AGPx2 16MByte Radeon Graphics. | | | So anyway, I'm wondering maybe users with a 32MB GPU is having a much nicer time, just a bit dissapointed that my Ti is only 8 months old, and it can't run the latest OS at optinum speed. |
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http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=5031
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| | MacSlash Quartz Extreme PDF From Siggraph |
| | QE, as I understand it, uses different parts of the hardware video board than Quartz. | | | Specifically, it uses the chips and code originally designed for 3-D (OpenGL) acceleration to accelerate ordinary screen drawing. | | | It shows an overview of how QE differs from normal Quartz, as well as listing the OpenGL extensions that Apple created in order for this to work. |
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http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/01/180237
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| | Technorati Tag: quartz |
| | I need to put Quartonian development aside for a couple of months to work on some other creative projects. | | | Flickr Savr is the second proof of concept I created using the Flickr API and Apple’s Quartz Composer. | | | This screen saver was created as a proof of concept using the Flickr API and Apple’s Quartz Composer. |
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http://www.technorati.com/tag/quartz
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| | IMG News: |
| | A recent post to the Ars Technica Mac forums revealed it is possible to enable Mac OS X 10.2's Quartz Extreme on Macs without AGP video cards. | | | He notes that for fullscreen games, the VRAM is used the same by any OpenGL application --whether it be a game or OS X 10.2-- so there is no danger of the OS "hogging" memory from a game. | | | Creative users are also finding they can enable Quartz Extreme on a secondary PCI card if they have something else like a Radeon 8500 in the AGP slot by adding the IOPCI line instead of overriding the AGP line, but as always, be very cautious with any such modifications. |
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http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ArticleID=6141
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| | Quartz Extreme framerates |
| | An app will get the best results and highest overall performance in either Quartz or Quartz Extreme by doing needed computations and I/O, then drawing, then issuing a flush. | | | The Quartz display acceleration system normally limits framerates to the display refresh rate when an app issues multiple sequential flushes. | | | Trying to go faster than that produces no visible effect, as the intermediate frames simply won't appear on screen, and is effectively a waste of bus bandwidth. |
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http://dot.kde.org/1048476487/1048672856/1048782251/1051855669
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| | PDF slideshow explains Quartz Extreme MacNN News |
| | Your iBook only has 8 megs of VRAM because it's a consumer device. | | | The amount of VRAM required is because Quartz Extreme is a very innovative (but bleeding-edge, hence the high video card requirement) method of doing window drawing. | | | It will be available with Jaguar (10.2) on August 24th, and is the first OpenGL-based windowing system. |
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http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=15641
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| | macosx.com - The Answer to Mac Support - Quartz Extreme on Powerbook G4? |
| | Get Memory Usage Getter, the only Mac OS X utility that graphically displays the memory usage of your open processes! | | | The requirements for Quartz Extreme are that you have an nVidia Graphics Card, or any ATI Radeon card. | | | This means that you will only be using Quartz, not Quartz Extreme. |
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http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17772
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| | macosxhints - PCI Quartz Extreme restored in 10.3.8 |
| | binary is dated today, Feb 10, and all that was necessary to enable QE was the PCI Extreme [MacUpdate info page] installer (i.e. | | | So the 10.3.8 update appears to be safe for anyone who uses PCI Quartz Extreme, and Apple has been nice enough to restore that 'feature' for those who would, if 10.3.7 hadn't broken it; no need to rush out and get an AGP machine just yet. | | | As a G3 owner who likes his PCI Quartz Extreme, I was wary of installing it -- I had already had to resort to (somewhat scary) hack in a previous hint to reenable QE on my Mac after updating to 10.3.7, and I was afraid even that might stop working. |
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http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050210043440766
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| | Fast User Switching: not getting the cube effect [Archive] - Mac Forums |
| | 10-24-2003, 09:24 PM does it require quartz extreme for the animation? | | | It is a quartz extreme function and only some cards are supported (e.g. | | | you need to have Quartz Extreme capable hardware for the cube effect. |
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http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-43267.html
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| | Tevac: Quartz Extreme e Tiger |
| | In Jaguar e Panther lo si può editare per ottenere l'accelerazione hardware anche su alcune schede ufficialmente non supportate come Radeon PCI e Radeon 8MB vRAM. | | | In Dashboard si apprezzano nuove animazioni, come la rotazione dell'orologio e del post-it, il resto dell'interfaccia diventa fluida e si può gioire dell'effetto "cubo" durante il fast user switching... | | | Non ho scoperto molto, ma rovistando nel file "Configuration.plist" (senza che vi sto a scrivere il path, digitate il nome nella ricerca, ce n'è solo uno non potete sbagliare), tramite text edit, ho scoperto una serie di nuove stringhe. |
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http://www.tevac.com/article.php?story=20040714011245377&mode=print
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| | GigaMacWiki: Quartz Extreme |
| | Microsoft versucht natürlich eine fast identische Technologie in Windows Longhorn∞ zu entwickeln die Avalon heissen wird. | | | Dies ermöglicht eine verbesserten Geschwindigkeit und schnelleres Antwortverhalten des Systems. | | | Quartz Extreme verpackt die meisten sichtbaren Elemente in OpenGL um die Grafikkarte zur Berechnung der Effekte wie Schatten oder Animationen miteinzubeziehen und damit den Prozessor fast nur zur Ausführung der eigentlichen Berechnungen (z.B. Einkommenssteuer) zu benutzen. |
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http://gigamac.cottonijoe.de/wikka.php?wakka=QuartzExtreme
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| | macosxhints: Disable Quartz Extreme on older Macs |
| | This may work with other key values, but this is the only one I have tried. | | | After the value is changed and saved, all you need to do is reboot and Quartz Extreme will no longer be enabled. | | | This means OS X won't use Quartz Extreme unless the card has a minimum of the value you specified. |
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http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040724190553112&mode=print
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| | The Secret About Box : Secrets : Quartz Extreme Beatdown |
| | Judging from the lack of hits that googling for "disable" and "quartz extreme" turns up, this isn't an issue that many are experiencing. | | | Part of the problem is that it seems to be assumed by the collective subconscious that the average user wants Quartz Extreme. | | | Yay me. So- the closest I could come to finding a way to disable the thing was Quartz Extreme Check - which wouldn't turn it off, just tell me if it was on or off. |
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http://www.secretaboutbox.com/secrets/000051.php
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| | Graphics & Imaging |
| | Quartz 2D is enhanced with a variety of new APIs that support floating point rendering, new PDF capabilities, and enhanced image file I/O for formats such as JPEG 2000 and OpenEXR. | | | Quartz Composer combines Core Image plug-ins with OpenGL, QuickTime, and RSS, allowing you to make dazzling effects using simple visual programming techniques. | | | Learn how the Accelerate framework abstracts low-level details of vector-based code so your application will run on either PowerPC-based or the upcoming Intel-based Macs without processor-specific customization. |
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http://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging
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| | Marc Liyanage - Software - Mac OS X Packages |
| | This is a small Cocoa app that checks if the machine is using Quartz Extreme (OpenGL acceleration for Quartz) in Mac OS X 10.2 and higher. | | | The package is very useful for automated image manipulation in web applications, e.g. | | | Quartz Extreme Check, an application that checks if Quartz Extreme acceleration is active. |
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