Sorry to hear about the (forced) downgrade, but having the mentioned
underpowered video card in my 1.8 DP, I was curious, when swapping the
video card, did you reset your pram also? (cuda button) <http://www.macusersguide.com/2009/05/resetting-pram-nvram-pmu/
> Seems like the drivers for it should be standard across 10.4. I
run 10.5.8 on my fairly stock machine (4g's Ram, GeForce FX 5200) and
had to reset pram just for the memory upgrades. I have switched to
the Flash cheat for PowerPc (see archieve) but youtube seems to
function fairly well. I have a hanns.g 25 inch monitor and sometimes
it seems a little slow on Civilization, & the daughters Sims
collection definitely ran slow. So much so she thought they were to
fast on her Intel 2.0 macbook. Good luck and don't give up on that
video card.
On Feb 5, 2012, at 7:08 PM, JohnV wrote:
Dan,
your critiques of my lack of procedure are spot-on and I
apologise. It is likely the primary cause for my current state of
disarray, having had 3 machines that I relied on professionally, but
did NOT know how to properly maintain, fall apart in various ways
over the last 18 months, leaving me with a confused mess of badly-
migrated systems and restores over several machines.
I'm badly in need of bringing this all back to a semblance of simple
useful work-sensible systems and, at least for the moment, pretty
well not up to the task.
both the original 2.0GHz G5 and the loaner 1.8 run 10.4.11
On Feb 5, 2012, at 6:43 PM, Dan wrote:
At 1:54 PM -0500 2/5/2012, JohnV wrote:
When a wonderful 2.0GHz G5 (8G mem) failed. I moved the drives
into a 1.8GHz G5 (2G mem)
Did you clear and rebuild the kernel and system caches after you
moved the drives?
and am really surprised at what seems to be its lack of
performance... just doing youtube stuff, even without enlarging
the playback, it stutters every 3sec or so on playback.
Neither the regular flash player nor perian are memory pigs. And
anything over .8 GHz should have no problemo playing YouTube stuff,
regardless of the video card.
That the stutter is happening every 3 sec tells me there is
something else going on. Something else is running on that cycle,
or your network connection is having issues. Errant spotlight
indexing is a prime candidate. Use Activity Monitor to check things.
Use a tool such as AppleJack or OnyX to clear and rebuild your
kernel and system caches. Then clear out the user caches. Make
sure whatever app(s) you're using to play the videos are up-to-
date, ditto the codecs. Then do some speed tests and then some
traceroutes to youtube...
In the future please provide basic hardware and software
configuration information in your FIRST posting. At this point,
there are 4 messages from you in this thread and you still haven't
said anything about the software environment! We donno what OS is
involved, whether it's up to date, what apps, what specific videos,
etc... so suggestions that you replace the video card or add memory
are totally premature. It makes no sense to recommend expanding
memory until you check to see if the memory have is even being
used, etc.
- Dan.
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