Resizing windows really drags


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The topic says it all. I've got 512MB of ram on a 1.2Ghz Mac Mini. When I resize a window its like my computer chokes. Everything is visually stunning. Moving windows around presents no lag, Expose only lags when I have 20 windows open, and the dock is always really snappy no matter what the load.

Any tweaks to help window resizing? What about an option somewhere that disables showing the content while dragging?

thanks for the help!

-nic

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That's probably the worst part of OS X, the Finder. It sucks. Individual applications have the ability to use a live-resize, which the Finder does use, or to use an outline, and then show the contents. Tiger does improve upon this somewhat, and turning on Quartz 2D Extreme makes things faster also (in Tiger).

I just got upgrade to tiger. The place I bought the mac from was kind enough to give me a copy! I can't figure out how to turn on this "Quartz 2D Extreme" feature. Is even anything that could run on my Mac Mini? I remember reading somewhere that it wouldn't be supported.

You use a program called Shadow Killer. It will disable to shadows on the windows which should make it faster. I'm not sure if it is currently Tiger compatible though. Alternatively, WindowshadeX allows you to tweak the shadow all the way off and they do have a Tiger compatible version out now. The former program is a lite/free version by the same guys that make the latter.

Look on macosxhints.com for a speedup tweak for window resizing. There is a "write defaults" tweak IIRC.

Your Mac mini should already support Quartz 2d accelleration. I don't know what he is talking about. Check the Hardware profiler in the utlilities folder.

You say that you just upgraded to Tiger. Did you just upgrade today? If so, you will notice that Tiger will be laggy couple hours after the upgrade until Spotlight finishes indexing everything.

Your Mac mini should already support Quartz 2d accelleration. I don't know what he is talking about. Check the Hardware profiler in the utlilities folder.

Quartz 2D Extreme will not run on a Mac Mini or iBook, it requires ARB Fragment programs to work at all, just like Core Image requires it in order to run on the Video Card.

Quartz Extreme only moves compositing onto the video card, quartz 2d extreme moves drawing there as well. You can enable it using quartz debug (/developer/applications/performance tools/quartz debug.app) if you have a Radeon 9600 or FX5200 better. Whenever you reboot (or log out?) the functionality will be disabled. There are issues with Carbon applications drawing incorrectly with Q2DE enabled.

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