Enable Quartz 2d Extreme In Osx Tiger

General Discussion
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as you may know, Quartz 2D Extreme was implemented in MacOS Tiger. Unfortunately it got disabled in the public Tiger release due to a lack of time for debugging before Tiger got launched.

Quartz 2D Extreme allows MacOS to handle 2D graphic operation through the GPU. As a result your whole macos desktop is driven by the GPU in OpenGL mode.

You can enable Quartz 2D by opening Terminal and typing :

udo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver Quartz2DExtremeEnabled -boolean YES

if you encounter any bugs you can disable Quartz 2D by replacing YES by NO.

i post it here cause it gave me more ressources for renoise on my iBook 12" G4 1,2Ghz, maybe it will work for you too, worth trying !

more details about Quartz 2D extreme here :

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/14

sorry for my bad english, u’d better check that article instead :)

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Typo, you forgot the “S”

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver Quartz2DExtremeEnabled -boolean YES
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right ! sorry for my bad copy/past skills …

thanks for the correct one

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Oh man I so need Tiger.
How’s renoise running on your iBook, SoundSquare? I have a similar machine, 'cept it’s the 1ghz older version.
Does Quartz Extreme 2D help reduce Renoises cpu usage, or just the usage of other apps?

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well i haven’t used Renoise much since i’ve got Tiger, i only made a few tests and as far as my iBook is concerned i got more ressources for Renoise since i enabled Quartz2D. Less CPU usage (about 10/15% less), so far so good. But Renoise is quite slow on my iBook, it needs some optimization, i’m sure the Renoise devs can do much better about it. I still use Renoise on my PC for now, and on iBook “for fun” without VSTis. The weird thing is that Renoise is not going better when i use my external M-Audio Firewire Audiophile on the iBook than with the integrated audio chip.

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Trolling for updates. Hey developers, your guilt shall be your judge. ;)

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i’m not blaming the devs at all, i just think Apple machines can do much better with Renoise in terms of CPU load. I heard Tiger makes things easier for devs, but once again i don’t know anything about coding so i just keep crossing my fingers to see a faster Renoise for Mac. I’d love to throw my PC away.