PowerPC :: IMac G3 Video Acceleration - How To Configure
Nov 24, 2006
So I bought this 600mhz iMac G3 for a friend. It has a CD-RW, but not a DVD drive, so I installed Tiger by putting the iMac into Firewire Target Disk Mode and installing Tiger via my PowerBook G4.
It works and boots, but somehow I get the feeling that there is something wrong with video acceleration. I mean, even though its an iMac G3, it has a 16mb Rage 128 Ultra AGP... it should be able to play 320 x 240 Sorenson movies full screen just fine. It also should do iTunes visualizers with "faster but rougher display" enabled just fine (remember those iTunes visualizer commercials from when the iMac G3 was still current?).
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Nov 11, 2006
i hooked up my wireless router, and it works fantastic on my macbook pro. however, on my powermac g4, i can't load anything, even the router ip address. at my old place everything worked. I have a feeling its just a simple setting, but I don't know what setting it would be.
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Sep 2, 2009
I have an iMac G4 800 mhz that I'd like to mirror to a 46" Samsung HDTV. I bought the Apple mini dv to both composite and s-video converter. When I plug it in, all I get is a scrambled version of what's on my mac.how to fix this and actually get video to transfer?
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May 3, 2010
i have an old G3 that wont play video, i know its an old computer but i thought that it probably should be able to.
spec is
imac G3 500Mhz
1GB ram
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Jul 26, 2006
I have an iBook with OS 9.2 and my internet provider doesn't support anything less than OS 10.0. Can someone guide me through the steps of configuring Airport for home wireless use? Alternately, is there a manual somewhere that would provide the necessary info.
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Aug 2, 2008
I'm new here and I've done a little searching and can't find an exact answer to my situation:I want to convert my video from my iMac and my iBook to my 37" LCD HDTV (Vizio) which has a VGA input already on it.Now, I have a Mini-DVI to VGA adapter already for my iBook, however, the adapter will not work on the Mini-DVI port on my iMac.
My question is: Does anyone know where I can get a cheap alternative to convert Mini-DVI (for my Intel iMac) to VGA with at least 50-75 feet of cable?
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Aug 26, 2008
I have an old G4 iMac , the lamp, with a 700 mhz processor and a 15" screen. My wife was using it but now we have traded.
My question is: can I output through the mini video output to my 19" monitor? Would it extend the desktop?
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Oct 25, 2009
I was just wondering if you guys wouldn't mind posting pics of your setups old where you all use your macs and what you put them on.
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Oct 13, 2010
My business uses a payment processor, and we have two iMacs hooked up to a router. Since both computers use the same gateway (same external IP address that the internet sees), the payment processor can only process payments from one iMac at a time. Both iMacs cannot run an order at the same time. My question is this: Is there a way to configure the router to give each iMac a separate IP address that the internet sees, so that they can both process orders with the payment processor at the same time? If this is a bit confusing, I will try to clarify more.
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Jun 16, 2007
I can't seem to find the option under System Preferences/Sharing/Internet that allows me to set my Aiport Extreme in my iMac for WPA/WPA2 security for internet sharing. Am I missing an update? Software update check shows all software current. Is there a download I'm missing?
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Mar 8, 2012
How do I configure my iMac to auto sync Pages and Keynote documents with iCloud like my iPad and iPhone does.Note I've updated all devices to the latest software and I have iCloud configured for sharing on all but, neither app on my iMac auto finds and sync documents.
Info:
Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 25, 2010
Well I got rid of the quicksilvers since they died. Power supplys gave out and took the motherboards, So I sold what was left on EBAY.
My G4 Ethernet was sold to a co-worked and he is quite happy.
And I got this off ebay today:
Dual 1.8GHz PowerPC G5Procs
2GB RAM (2 x 1GB PC3200U DDR SDRAM)
Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-117D
Samsung HD160JJ/P 160GB SATA HDD (not apple labeled, not original to this system)
(1) Power Cord
pci106b,9 PCI Ethernet Controller
Well I didnt' read the fine print and BAZINGA! I noticed that it comes without a video card.
So For video editing, watching hulu and youtube and netflix What do you guys recommend.
I do have a PCI GEforce at home with 512 megs for PC and I was wondering if I could flash it and if so, does anyone know of a good walkthrough?
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May 8, 2009
i have a powermac g4 sawtooth. it stutters on youtube videos and other videos so i was wandering whats a decent video card thats compatible with it?
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Jul 23, 2010
I'm a recent convert to using OS X as my main desktop and I'm loving it so far but with as with anything new I have a few gripes. One of the top being the sluggish feeling of the mouse movements. I have read of a few solutions to this and would like to get your expert opinions on what is the best route to go?
Microsoft Intellipoint - I just got away from these guys and it looks like I'm crawling back to them to resolve my mousing issues. Is anyone using Intellipoint with their mouse on OS X that can provide any comments?
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Nov 10, 2010
could anyone tell me how to cancel mouse acceleration?
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Jan 7, 2011
I get 2 fps (!!!) with CineBench Open CL test under WinXP in Parallels.
I have a Mac Pro Quad 2009 with an ATI Radeon 5870 card.
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Aug 6, 2005
I know people debate this like religion but if your sick of the mouse acceleration curve in OS X (like me) here is a GREAT utility for just turning it off...
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If you love the acceleration curve in OS X then disregard this post...
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Oct 17, 2008
I just purchased an Aluminum MacBook 2.4GHz today, and I tried playing some H.264 Trailers and I am shocked by the performance. My other MacBook Pro 2.4GHz playing a 1080p trailer is using about 100% CPU (out of 200%) but my new MacBook played the same trailer at only 28% CPU usage (out of 200%). I'm wondering if anyone knows if there is some GPU decode acceleration happening with the 9400M GPU because the difference here is quite huge.
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Apr 29, 2009
I would like to turn off mouse acceleration for an EXTERNAL mouse only (i.e still keep acceleration on the trackpad if it's enabled already).
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Aug 30, 2009
I have a question about how OpenCL works. What programs can utilize the GPU for processing? Does it happen automatically, or does the programming within the application have to state that the GPU can be used? It seems like everyone is excited about OpenCL and GPU acceleration, but how often is it used?
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Nov 1, 2009
This works best with "How to speed up mouse tracking in OS X", found elsewhere in this forum.
Note that mouse acceleration in OS X cannot be terminated completely, unless you are using something like USB OVerdrive. Assuming you are not using or do not want to use USB overdrive or similarly complete solution, read on.
Download the source here:
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You'll get a Unix executable file. Open a Terminal window and drop the file onto it.
After "killmouseaccel", type "mouse" (without quotation marks), and make sure a space remains between the two words. Then hit enter.
Effect is immediate. Logging out or restarting will kill the effect, so you'll have to run it each time. You might be able to set it to an automatic script upon logging in. Something I haven't figured out yet.
Ideally, it's best to increase the mouse tracking speed first (using instructions I posted elsewhere in this forum), which should be permanent until you reset the speed in the actual mouse pref pane, and then run the executable to kill mouse acceleration.
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Jun 24, 2010
Is there a way to disable mouse acceleration in OS X like there is in Windows, hopefully without resorting to a third party program?
possibly on an application to application basis?
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Jul 20, 2009
I have an Ibook g3 700mhz 384 MB and having dificulty watching streaming video for ex. cnn.com or any other. I can watch movies on flash drive and dvds no probs or from harddrive but streaming is very choppy. I know connection is not the issue (I have broadband) and streaming works fine on sony desktop running xp 1ghz with 256 mb ram. What gives?
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Nov 1, 2010
As a long time Windows user when I first started using OS X a couple years ago, I remember the mouse control driving me nuts. It can be quite hard to get used to the OS X acceleration control. I explored a couple of the programs to let you customize the acceleration, but I guess my brain eventually just adapted as it stopped bothering me.
Now though, I am spending a good amount of time in Win 7 on my new Mac Pro. I'm finding that again, every time I go into OS X I find the mouse control very hard to adjust to. It's a Logitech Anywhere MX Mouse and I installed the drivers in both Win 7 and OS X.
Perhaps I am just loosing my mind...but it would be nice if I could have the exact same mouse experience when switching between OS's.
(edit: As a little bit of a further observation, I think the Win 7 mouse refresh rate is several times faster than what I observing in OS X and this is probably a big part of why I am feeling like I have more control in Win 7. Doing circles with my mouse in Win 7 creates a much more complete circle.)
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Dec 26, 2010
Since we still seem to lag without hardware acceleration, just thought I'd give the new opera 11 a run, not quite scientific, but just my own interest.
On Peacekeeper -
Opera 11.00.1156 - 7213
Safari 5.0.3 - 5116
Chromium 10.0.603.0 - 5088
Firefox 4.0b9 (20101226) - 4762
And then a javascript (sunspider) test, but only with chrome, since thats what I use. Chromium 10.0.603.0 - 243ms. Opera 11.00.1156 - 273ms. So looks like its now on par in the javascript and the best at html5 rendering so far interesting, also finally has extensions!
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Apr 26, 2008
remove mouse acceleration in Leopard?im using mouse and the mouse accel
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Feb 2, 2009
I'm having some trouble with my Logitech V450 Nano mouse. It feels awkward compared to a regular PC mouse.
To be more specific, I have trouble accurately moving the cursor. When I move the cursor a short distance, it feels like I'm moving through mud. By contrast, when I move the mouse over a longer distance, it feels much faster. This makes it really difficult for me to close windows and play any sort of FPS game.
Now, the Logitech software allows me to change the mouse acceleration, but it still feels really awkward. I've experimented with almost every setting but the speed still doesn't feel accurate/consistent. Does this make sense or am I taking crazy pills?
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Jul 30, 2009
Im running windows xp through vmware fusion... and i need to enable direct 3d acceleration
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Sep 10, 2009
After I installed 10.6.1, my 17" uMBP doesn't play 1080p quicktime trailers if I use the 9400M chip. They play at really bad fps with QuicktimeX player. I use VLC to play them and they play as good as usual. So the 10.6.1 somehow broke the hardware acceleration part of 9400M for me. QuicktimeX player tries to accelerate the playback by hardware, which doesn't work, so it can't play them. VLC does it by CPU and it works.
I didn't have this issue with 10.6.
Anyone else with uMBP can test this out?
P.S. If I use the 9600 GT, they play nicely on QuicktimeX player as well as before.
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Aug 16, 2010
Has anyone tried the new version of adobe flash with the hardware acceleration? Does it seem to present a lot of improvements? Also if I install it, how do I uninstall the current version? How do I remove this version when a new version comes out? Will Software Update automatically remove this version if a newer version comes out through apple's update?
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