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November 3, 2005
OS X 10.4.3 and Quartz 2D Extreme
The 10.4.3 update to Tiger disables Quartz 2D Extreme on account of supposed video redraw issues. Owning a new iBook G4 with a Radeon doesn't-completely-suck™ GPU, I was rather fond of Quartz 2D Extreme. Turns out re-enabling it isn't quite so hard.
- Open Quartz Debug.
- Select "Tools->Enable Quartz 2D Extreme".
- Start Activity Monitor.
- Force Quit Quartz Debug
- Reboot or logout/log-in
The only video glitch encountered so far is a strange white box over the left half of the hard-disk icon. Selecting the icon makes it disapear. On the DP1.0GHz G4 tower (Radeon 9600 Pro) and 1.67GHz PowerBook at work, no video issues have been experienced.
So, as always, your milage may vary.
Posted by spiffed at November 3, 2005 1:04 PM