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Quartz Extreme with Unsupported Video Cards

Posted by pudge on from the hack-a-licious dept.

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."

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  1. More info... by catseye · · Score: 5, Informative
    There's also a small set of reader reports on xlr8yourmac.com here about this hack. Apparently there can be some odd artifacts/display problems, and the speed increase is minimal, but other than that it works! Pretty cool.

    -A.

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