athlon64dude Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 When did apple impliment CI and QE? was it with tiger? I was at work today and a client had an older G4 mac with an nvidia card it was running 10.2 but everything was smooth... I'm wondering if I can get tehe driver from there and recompile it to work with 10.4.3+ at least we'd get 2d accel thats all im asking for Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11566-i-have-a-question-about-ci-and-qe/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackentangled Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 and how will you manage to recompile it without the source, eh? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11566-i-have-a-question-about-ci-and-qe/#findComment-72575 Share on other sites More sharing options...
athlon64dude Posted March 10, 2006 Author Share Posted March 10, 2006 thats a good question.. how is macvidia doing theres? Sorry if I asked a dumb question, I don't know much about these things I was only wondering cuz apple had nvidia support before Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11566-i-have-a-question-about-ci-and-qe/#findComment-72585 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackentangled Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 i really don't know if macvidia is still on it or have abondoned the project since the macvidia site isn't updated anymore. the only option for now is to buy supported ati cards or wait in the near future for apple to release nvidia drivers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11566-i-have-a-question-about-ci-and-qe/#findComment-72610 Share on other sites More sharing options...
athlon64dude Posted March 10, 2006 Author Share Posted March 10, 2006 i really don't know if macvidia is still on it or have abondoned the project since the macvidia site isn't updated anymore. the only option for now is to buy supported ati cards or wait in the near future for apple to release nvidia drivers. Buying an ATi card is really not a problem for me.. I was just curious... because nvidia cards have been supported in earlier versions of 10 someone know when apple started QE? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11566-i-have-a-question-about-ci-and-qe/#findComment-72842 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Bond Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 From WikiMac... Starting with Mac OS X 10.2, Quartz Compositor was extended by Quartz Extreme, which uses OpenGL to render screen displays faster by presenting them as textures within a 3D OpenGL context. This permits faster compositing of screen images using 3D hardware acceleration. To use Quartz Extreme, the Macintosh must have an AGP graphics card with support for arbitrary texture dimensions and a minimum of 16 MB of VRAM. In practice, this means either any nVidia or an ATI Radeon or better. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11566-i-have-a-question-about-ci-and-qe/#findComment-72861 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackentangled Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 To use Quartz Extreme, the Macintosh must have an AGP graphics card so sad, new intel macs doesn't support anymore agp no way of recognizing agp cards as agp but instead is seen as pci... applei386pci.kext doesn't work in 10.4.4 - 5 anymore too... and apple has somehow didn't release full source (necessary kexts) of recent build of darwin... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11566-i-have-a-question-about-ci-and-qe/#findComment-73676 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iMaurice Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 i thought it still works... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11566-i-have-a-question-about-ci-and-qe/#findComment-74508 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 Technically you can hack things to run QE on PCI... At least I had this hack running on 10.3.9 on a B&W G3 with a Radeon PCI card. http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/OSX/quartz_extreme_PCI_mod.html Not sure if it'll help on 10.4.3+ on Intel. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11566-i-have-a-question-about-ci-and-qe/#findComment-74776 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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