As of 10.4.3 or so, this hack stopped working and started rendering machines unbootable. Please do not try to run this software on 10.4.3 or above. If you have and you want to get your machine working again, you need to take: PCI Extreme 3.1/PCI Extreme.app/Contents/Resources/CoreGraphics and overwrite: /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A/CoreGraphics
You can do this in single user mode with the CP command, with a boot CD like DiskWarrior or TechTools, or you can boot the sad Mac into FireWire disk mode and use another Mac to copy the file over more...
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Version 3.1:Improved Tiger support. No longer relies on binary difference patches or MD5 sums. No more "binary unsupported" messages. Certified safe for 10.4.0. At your own risk for future releases (unless this is updated by then, of course!)
As of 10.4.3 or so, this hack stopped working and started rendering machines unbootable. Please do not try to run this software on 10.4.3 or above. If you have and you want to get your machine working again, you need to take: PCI Extreme 3.1/PCI Extreme.app/Contents/Resources/CoreGraphics and overwrite: /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A/CoreGraphics
You can do this in single user mode with the CP command, with a boot CD like DiskWarrior or TechTools, or you can boot the sad Mac into FireWire disk mode and use another Mac to copy the file over using the Finder.
PCI Extreme!... PCI Radeon users rejoice! This hack will enable hardware accelerated features in CoreGraphics any PCI video card with the proper hardware. Easy, eh? The patch PCI Extreme! performs will not allow older cards, such as the Rage II, Rage 128 Pro, Nexus, or any Voodoo or nVidia cards to utilize hardware acceleration. Unless the AGP counterpart to your card can power a feature, the PCI equivalent will not be able to, even with this patch. That is the bottom line.
Unfortunately, because Apple hardcoded the setting into CoreGraphics, I'm not aware of a way to enable both AGP and PCI graphics quartz acceleration at the same time. If you know a way, please let me know.
Version 3.1:Improved Tiger support. No longer relies on binary difference patches or MD5 sums. No more "binary unsupported" messages. Certified safe for 10.4.0. At your own risk for future releases (unless this is updated by then, of course!)
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