xiberia Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Two quick questions - how do we know if our CPUs support CPUID etc? Surely they all do? Is there a program that can tell me? And Quartz graphics - my card shows up as "VGA compatable", no kexts loaded, no Quartz or Core. However, when I run BenchmarkX I can see all the swirly things in the Quartz test - does this mean Quartz is active anyhow? (These are BTW type questions that always bugged my but I thought were too boring to ask lol) Thanks everyone Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7299-chips-and-quartz/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
narunet Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 To your first question, if you have a windows partition still running on that machine, just get "CPU-Z" and it should tell you everything about your CPU. To your second, what kind of graphics card/controller do you have? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7299-chips-and-quartz/#findComment-45557 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiberia Posted January 20, 2006 Author Share Posted January 20, 2006 i used CPU-Z, it told me I had a SSE2, but nothing about the CPUID/XD/whateverelse. Nevermind, if its not broke I'm not going to fix it. For the second, I have a Radeon 9200. Quartz is supported by the card, but in my OSX installation i just have "VGA compatable", no kext loaded, and "Quartz unsupported, Core Unsupported". But I was wondering that, If I can see the Quartz test running on Xbench, whether Quartz was running anyway? (I can't see anything on the open GL test, so I know that isn't working). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7299-chips-and-quartz/#findComment-45592 Share on other sites More sharing options...
unixguru Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Quartz runs on *every* card. Quartz is the graphics subsystem for OS X. It's known to the engineers as CoreGraphics I believe. Quartz is always there if you're running OS X in graphics mode. The difference is whether it's accelerated by the hardware, a feature Apple calls Quartz Extreme. You can only get that if the correct driver for your video card is loaded, which in your case it is not. So you have Quartz but no Quartz Extreme. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7299-chips-and-quartz/#findComment-47948 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiberia Posted January 25, 2006 Author Share Posted January 25, 2006 aha... makes sense. Anyhow, I used a program called Everest (which has been mentioned a lot around here) and it gave me more info than CPU-Z did. Yeah, my card is unsupported, even on real Macs, so I'm getting a new one. Thanks for your help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7299-chips-and-quartz/#findComment-48008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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