PCI Extreme! 3.1 review

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PCI Radeon users rejoice! This patch will enable hardware accelerated features in CoreGraphics any PCI video card with the proper hardware.

License:	Freeware
OS:	Mac OS X
File size:	214K
Developer:	Dangerous Wares
Price:	$0.00
Updated:	03 Apr 2006

PCI Radeon users rejoice! This patch will enable hardware accelerated features in CoreGraphics any PCI video card with the proper hardware. Easy, eh? The patch that 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 in 10.4. If you know a way, please let me know.

What's New:
Improved Tiger support. I no longer rely on MD5 sums and binary difference patches. This means that the program will never give an unsupported binary message ever again. Certified "safe" in 10.4.0. Use with future versions at your own risk.

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