On Apr 28, 2009, at 2:27 PM, insightinmind wrote: > re there any special installation procedures for an ATI Radeon > 9200ME in a Yikes!?
Make sure the video card is in the special video PCI slot. Enable Quartz Extreme using PCI Extreme 3.1 from MacUpdate: <http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8979/pci-extreme%21> There are a few faster PCI cards available if you think you're just on the cusp. The flashed PC Radeon 9100 (=Mac Radeon 8500PCI) has dual rendering pipelines running at 275MHz (your 9200 runs at 200 MHz). Sometimes smooth video is dependent upon where the file is located on the HD. A slow HD with the file on a slow sector will play bad, but the same file on a fast sector will play fine. I've sometimes made a special partition of the fastest (outermost) sectors to use as a video playback partition. A striped RAID 0 pair of matched 7,200 RPM HDs would likely eliminate the HD as the culprit for slow video playback. If you're using Tiger 10.4.11 there's an nVidia card that supports CoreGraphics, albeit slowly: <http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/Graphics/Mac_PCI_FX5200/mac_PCI_FX5200.html> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
