ahh, I had forgoten about Quartz Extreme. I purchased an upgrade to my video card years ago for my DP500, a GeForce4 MX. But if I remember correctly, didn't one of the subsequent upgrades to the Mac OS disable Quartz Extreme for our machines later? On Jan 30, 2008, at 2:21 PM, John Niven wrote: > David, > > If you mean when scrolling down a window the screen > does not seem to scroll smoothly, then I think that's > a function of the video card not the mouse. To scroll > the video has to keep re-writing the screen. Either > this needs a better video card, or maybe you have the > wrong drivers installed? > > I remember this sort of thing from vintage macs where > a 3rd party video card might not seem to scroll well > until the correct extension was installed. > > I believe this function is handled by by Quartz. A > Quartz Extreme capable video card should help on > Tiger. > > I have a modest GeForce2 MX video card which is a > flashed PC eBay card. While it does support Quartz > Extreme it does not do Core Image, but works for me > for everyday use. > > John > > > --- Crandon David <tabdave at ca.rr.com> wrote: > >> I'm curious as to what you mean when you say it's >> slow scrolling thru >> emails. I also have a DP500, and while I don't >> specifically have a >> problem with emails, in general, scrolling has never >> been very smooth >> at all. And that's with 3 different mice. >> >> David >> >> >> On Jan 30, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Brad Russell wrote: >> >>> Just bought my wife a new Macbook so of course we >> are now feeling >>> the need to upgrade or replace the desktop. >>> >>> Right now I have a DP500 with 2 gigs of ram an ATI >> 9200 video card >>> pushing to 20" LCDs and it is running Tiger. What >> I would like is >>> a machine that doesn't seem quite so sluggish >> while scrolling >>> through my e-mail, run the latest iphoto and >> office. I would be >>> nice to run Leopard (is it required for the new >> iphoto?) I've >>> thought about a mini but I want to keep the dual >> monitors. So do I >>> try a processor and video card upgrade? ( I need a >> new video card >>> in the DP450 in the basement so it could take the >> 9200) or do a go >>> with a whole new box? Of course I'd like to keep >> things a cheap as >>> possible but I'm not sure if I'd be better >> continuing to soup up >>> the old girl or go for something with a faster >> bus. >>> >>> Any advice would be greatly appreciated! >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Brad >>> >>> Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them >> fast with Yahoo! >>> Search. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> G4 mailing list >>> G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >>> >> > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> G4 mailing list >> G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > ______________ > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/ > newsearch/category.php?category=shopping > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4