Quartz Extreme with Unsupported Video Cards

BandwidthHog writes "This thread over at Ars Technica discusses a simple .plist hack to enable Quartz Extreme on the PCI version of a supported video card, i.e. the original Radeon PCI and Radeon 7000, two of the most popular video cards for those of us running on 'unsupported' OldWorld machines."

Comments

Re:PCI problems

[2nd Post!]

I thought I made it clear I wasn't going to bother trying because I had a Rage 128 onboard?

I've got the AGP (dedicated bus) but I don't have the hardware capable of doing, as you say, power of 2 textures among other things.

I actually meant to say that people who enabled this and have other third party PCI cards may see a performance degradation because QE is sucking up the PCI bandwidth

What about my Pismo?

[ReblMonkey]

Evidently my Pismo has an 8MB AGP ATI-something card in it. Is this card already benefitting from QE? I heard requirements of 32 or 16 MB, but what about 8? Does 10.2 do what it can with my 8 MB card, or does it just ignore it completely when it comes to QE? (And if it doesn't can I turn it on?)