remenic Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 Hi guys, Yesterday evening I finally managed to install OSx86 on a Compaq Workstation that was gathering dust. I decided I could better make some use of this 'nice' piece of hardware. It works mostly great. Here are the specs: Compaq Evo W6000 - 1x Intel Xeon 1.7GHz w/ SSE2. - 1.5GB ECC RAM - Geforce FX 5200 128MB AGP - JaS.10.4.8.AMD.Intel.SSE2.SSE3 with Nitat driver from DVD But there's a problem. Compared to my macbook, it's really really slow. It's slow when resizing windows, it's even lagging horribly when scrolling in TextEdit. Activity monitor however never shows CPU activity near 100%. When resizing it tops at 70% CPU, and when scrolling it tops at 40% CPU. So the CPU is probably not the bottleneck. Even the water effect in dashboard is very slow (low FPS). I'm inclined to blame the GFX card, since it's very low end. But maybe it's the AGP bus that's hammering things? I know that the fx5200 card is pretty popular in this community, so I was wondering if I'm the only one experiencing this. If the changes are likely that the fx5200 is indeed to blame for the slow UI, then I'm willing to buy something faster (the 7600's aren't that expensive anymore). Oh just for the record, System Profiles shows that QE and CI are both supported. Cheers! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40088-fx5200-slow-gui-performance-nitat-qeci-supported/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prasys Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 you might need agpgart ! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40088-fx5200-slow-gui-performance-nitat-qeci-supported/#findComment-286324 Share on other sites More sharing options...
remenic Posted January 27, 2007 Author Share Posted January 27, 2007 you might need agpgart ! I was missing agpgart yes, so I installed it! The output of kextstat shows: 29 0 0x31ea7000 0x6000 0x5000 com.joblo10.driver.AGPGart (2.2.0) <16 11> ... 67 0 0x38484000 0x1ab000 0x1aa000 com.apple.nvidia.nv40hal (4.4.0) <52 16 11> ... 71 0 0x320cc000 0x49000 0x48000 com.apple.GeForce (4.4.0) <52 51 50 16 11 5 4 3 2> ... 74 0 0x31d24000 0x4000 0x3000 com.dmweb.Natit (1.0.0d1) <16 11> 75 0 0x31e8d000 0x5000 0x4000 com.free.driver.Titan (1.0.0d1) <16 11> So it seems that AGPGart is loaded now, but the performance didn't change, and system profilers shows this: How can I check if AGPGart is really working? Maybe it doesn't support my Intel chipset? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40088-fx5200-slow-gui-performance-nitat-qeci-supported/#findComment-286344 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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