should i even be able to tell a difference? i know that i've turned it on using the debug tool, but to my eyes, i dont see a difference. what exactly should i be looking for?
should i even be able to tell a difference? i know that i've turned it on using the debug tool, but to my eyes, i dont see a difference. what exactly should i be looking for?
I really don't notice a difference with it on or off. Are you sure the debug app doesn't just show it as off or turn it off automatically when run. I have a dual 2Ghz G5 with a 9800XT.
Yup no noticeable difference with itunes or safari resizing at all. Yes I restarted the applications.
Restart the windowserver or just logout/reboot and login to your system with the set up enabled.
If anything hokey arises, boot into single user mode and sudo cp the com.apple.windowserver.plist.backup to com.apple.windowserver.plist and restart the windowserver and/or reboot your system.
As I've said, systems without Extreme 2D capable GPUs won't even see this list and will run the compiled windowserver settings automagically selecting your detected hardware.
I have the same powerbook but i do not have the com.apple.windowserver.plist on my system. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Download the Debug Utility and test to see if you can enable the Quartz 2D Extreme option in its Tools Menu. Then on a hunch check to see if it autogenerates a binary plist in /Library/Preferences/.
If you just use vi, pico or another commandline editor check to see if it now exists.
You and your old fashioned desire to explain where quartz debug is. (kidding)
Anyone with tiger installed could simply spotlight quartz and find it under the applications section...
My experience with it has been pretty good so far. I enabled q2de via the quartz debug application and then force quit it. The only glitches i've noticed have to do with rollover link changes in safari.
It would be nice if someone could write a script that enables Quartz 2D Extreme in the .plist for those of us who aren't as comfortable as others in messing with the terminal app.
Addendum; is it possible to run an Automater Workflow to open the 2D Extreme Debugger on system startup, enable 2D Extreme and then hide the application? That would be a decent work-around until Apple makes it a standard.
So, does quartz 2D extreme accelerate anything ? It's supposed to do so in theory, but in pratice it doesn't make the UI more responsive (from what I heard). I'm a bit disappointed.
This looks perfectly safe from a corruption perspective; something you can set back to the normal setting if you get annoyed with the bugs. Nothing that could corrupt your files.
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Originally posted by jedifunk
should i even be able to tell a difference? i know that i've turned it on using the debug tool, but to my eyes, i dont see a difference. what exactly should i be looking for?
A 10x speed increase.
A 10x speed increase.
speed increase in what? sorry if i sound stupid, but i'm just not sure what to be looking for.
Originally posted by jedifunk
speed increase in what? sorry if i sound stupid, but i'm just not sure what to be looking for.
Speed increase in drawing.
Resize a Finder window and a TextEdit window full of text.
Yup no noticeable difference with itunes or safari resizing at all. Yes I restarted the applications.
Originally posted by hitby
Hi all, Could someone confirm how to make this change permanent? Is it something along the lines of
plutil 1 /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist
?? Not knowing anything about terminal at all?
Cheers
Dan
To extend upon Hitby's commentary:
The update to Tiger converted com.apple.windowserver.plist to binary1 upon rebooting the system.
To see exactly what got modified after running the Debug utility I did the following:
$cd /Library/Preferences
$sudo cp com.apple.windowserver.plist com.apple.windowserver.backup.plist
$sudo plutil -convert xml1 com.apple.windowserver.backup.plist
$sudo vim com.apple.windowserver.backup.plist
Results: at the bottom of the file:
<key>GLCompositor</key>
<dict>
<keys>fileHeight</key>
<integer>256</integer>
<key>tileWidth</key>
<integer>256</key>
</dict>
<key>Quartz2DExtremeEnabled</key>
<false/>
</dict>
</plist>
One would presume that false being replaced with true would suffice.
One could then copy your current binary version to .backup ala com.apple.windowserver.plist.backup and convert back the xml1 file plist to binary.
$sudo cp com.apple.windowserver.plist com.apple.windowserver.plist.backup
$sudo plutil -convert binary1 com.apple.windowserver.backup.plist
$sudo cp com.apple.windowserver.backup.plist com.apple.windowserver.plist
exit terminal
Restart the windowserver or just logout/reboot and login to your system with the set up enabled.
If anything hokey arises, boot into single user mode and sudo cp the com.apple.windowserver.plist.backup to com.apple.windowserver.plist and restart the windowserver and/or reboot your system.
As I've said, systems without Extreme 2D capable GPUs won't even see this list and will run the compiled windowserver settings automagically selecting your detected hardware.
Originally posted by greeneggsaregood
Hey Mdriftmeyer,
I have the same powerbook but i do not have the com.apple.windowserver.plist on my system. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Download the Debug Utility and test to see if you can enable the Quartz 2D Extreme option in its Tools Menu. Then on a hunch check to see if it autogenerates a binary plist in /Library/Preferences/.
If you just use vi, pico or another commandline editor check to see if it now exists.
Dan
Originally posted by mdriftmeyer
To extend upon Hitby's commentary:
The update to Tiger converted com.apple.windowserver.plist to binary1 upon rebooting the system.
To see exactly what got modified after running the Debug utility I did the following:
$cd /Library/Preferences
$sudo cp com.apple.windowserver.plist com.apple.windowserver.backup.plist
$sudo plutil -convert xml1 com.apple.windowserver.backup.plist
$sudo vim com.apple.windowserver.backup.plist
However (I tried this on the Finder), the desktop text looked slighty different, maybe a little more fuzzy.
Also, just a note, I found Quartz Debug in /Developer/Applications/Performance Tools/ (for those of you have XCode Tools installed).
Anyone with tiger installed could simply spotlight quartz and find it under the applications section...
My experience with it has been pretty good so far. I enabled q2de via the quartz debug application and then force quit it. The only glitches i've noticed have to do with rollover link changes in safari.
Addendum; is it possible to run an Automater Workflow to open the 2D Extreme Debugger on system startup, enable 2D Extreme and then hide the application? That would be a decent work-around until Apple makes it a standard.
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver Quartz2DExtremeEnabled -boolean YES
in the Terminal work?
Originally posted by a_greer
Will this work on the 9200s in the MacMinis?
No. It only works with Radeon 9600's or better, or GeForce FX's.
Originally posted by Dave Marsh
Quartz 2D Extreme has not been turned on yet in Tiger...perhaps in the next dot update...
I know, but people who turned it on don't see any improvement.
Does this help people who dont want to access the prefrences from the terminal?