Hey, Dual G4 owners!

[Sol]

Frame-rate counter

btw how do y'all measure frame rates? im just going by how it looks to me as far as watchability 😕

On the File Menu click on Windows, then select Show Movie Info. Y'all got that? 🙂

 

[evoluzione]

Worse than expected!

i do have an SGI monitor hooked up running off a 16MB gfx card, which does kill dashboard to the point that it's completely not animted when activating...maybe that is also slowing down the videos i tried...i'll have to gut the machine again and run it "stock" to see if there's any difference..

 

[homerjward]

On the File Menu click on Windows, then select Show Movie Info. Y'all got that? 🙂

cool, thanks.
watching the kingdom of heaven trailer in 720p i get 12-15fps 😱😱

 

[Sol]

SGI display

i do have an SGI monitor hooked up running off a 16MB gfx card...

Do you mean those CRT wide-screen displays they used to sell? If yes, how is support on OS X for those? I would like a monitor like that but I am concerned about support for its resolutions not being there when used by my PowerMac G4. Also, how does it connect to the graphics card? Do they use standard VGA or DVI connectors?

 

[MacsRgr8]

Really? Dual 2ghz didn't play it smooth? Thats odd.

I mean it.
It was close to smooth, but not smooth enough.

 

[ReanimationLP]

My G4 choked to death. lol.

 

[evoluzione]

Do you mean those CRT wide-screen displays they used to sell? If yes, how is support on OS X for those? I would like a monitor like that but I am concerned about support for its resolutions not being there when used by my PowerMac G4. Also, how does it connect to the graphics card? Do they use standard VGA or DVI connectors?

no it's the SGI 1600sw flat screen. awesome monitors, awesome resolution, 110 dpi. it's a 17" but the res is 1600 x 1024. it connects to LVDS so you need a specific gfx card, like the old Formac Proformance 3 with the adapter card for the screen. you can find them on eBay for about $250 for both, well worth it if you like high resolutions. i'm going to get a 2nd so i have 3 screens on m G4. they work great in OS9 and up to 10.2.x but you need to "patch" OS X to run it in Panther or Tiger by typing this into terminal:
sudo nvram boot-args="romndrv=1"
they're not fast at refreshing but i'm hoping to get a 32MB card to speed things up from the 16MB i have.