Is Your Menu Bar Translucent (Poll) - Trying to Find a Trend

[ravenvii]

MBP 2.2 GHz...

You know the rest.

 

[toolbox]

13inch Macbook | 2GB RAM | Intel GMA 950 with 64 MB VRAM | TRANSPARENT
Mac Mini | PPC | 512MB | Ati Radeon with 64 MB VRAM | NO TRANSPARENT MENU BAR

 

[Sijmen]

PPC | 1.5 GHz | 1.25 GB | NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 w/ 64 MB VRAM | NO TRANSPARENCY

 

[psonice]

Looks like only PPC macs with nvidia cards are unsupported. Guess it's a driver thing.

 

[xUKHCx]

Intel Core 2 Duo (iMac) | 2.16 GHz | 2 GB RAM | Radeon X1600 265 MB | TRANSPARENT

 

[Stephenbw]

Upgrade - yes transparent.

 

[Markleshark]

1.83 CoreDuo Mac Mini. 2GB of RAM, Yes.

 

[RumMunkey]

Model Name: PowerBook G4 15"
Model Identifier: PowerBook5,4
Processor Name: PowerPC G4 (1.2)
Processor Speed: 1.5 GHz
Number Of CPUs: 1
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 167 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.8.6f0

ATI Mobility Radeon 9700:

Chipset Model: ATY,RV360M11
Type: Display
Bus: AGP
VRAM (Total): 64 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)




And, yup... I got me transparency!

 

[Sky Blue]

iBook G4, 1.33GHz 1.25GB RAM (Not Sure on GC) No Transparency (yay!)

 

[Cloudsurfer]

Intel | 2.0 GHz | 2 GB | ATI Radeon X1600 w/ 128 MB VRAM | TRANSPARENCY

 

[anthroid]

PPC G4 1GHz Powerbook 12" 1024x768 - GeForce FX Go5200 32MB - 1.25GB RAM - Quartz Extreme / Core Image Supported - NO TRANSPARENCY

 

[Warbrain]

PPC G4 | 1.42 GHz | iBook 14" | ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 | 1.5 GB of RAM | Core Image: Hardware Accelerated | Quartz Extreme: Supported | Transparency

Edit: Makes me feel all odd since I have a G4 but I have the transparency. I'm all special.

 

[Sijmen]

PPC G4 | 1.42 GHz | iBook 14" | ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 | 1.5 GB of RAM | Core Image: Hardware Accelerated | Quartz Extreme: Supported | Transparency

Edit: Makes me feel all odd since I have a G4 but I have the transparency. I'm all special.

Not really, so far only the 12" PowerBook and the iBooks lack it if I'm not mistaking.

 

[anthroid]

looks to be only a specific model of NVIDIA card.
the only machines reporting no transparency have exactly the same video card, GeForce FX Go5200 32MB. (at least from what i see in this thread)

 

[Sijmen]

64MB, not 32

edit: iBooks have opaque menu bars, too, and I believe they have a Mobility Raedon 9200

 

[anthroid]

actually i dont think it's the memory spec on the card, it may be the GeForce FX Go5200 series.

 

[eXan]

The trend I think is that transparency doesnt work on GPUs that dont support Core Image, as well as on GeForce FX 5200.

 

[sananda]

Not really, so far only the 12" PowerBook and the iBooks lack it if I'm not mistaking.

my ibook (mentioned in my earlier post) has it.

 

[Sijmen]

I still don't get it though. Why would a blurred, transparent menu be possible but not a blurred, transparent menu bar?

 

[anthroid]

possibly outdated driver.
there could be a deprecated function call in the drivers for the affected models.

 

[Warbrain]

I still don't get it though. Why would a blurred, transparent menu be possible but not a blurred, transparent menu bar?

It could be that those menus are built-in differently that isn't dependent on Core Image. I'm not sure and possibly wrong, but considering that they might use a different process, it's possible.

 

[akabenlee]

Powermac G5 | Dual 1.8 GHz | 3GB RAM | NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 w/ 64MB VRAM | NO TRANSPARENCY

Macbook | 2.0 GHz Core2Duo | 2 GB RAM | TRANSPARENT

both were upgrade

 

[dr_lha]

i've found that the menubar transparency fails on any machine with a GeForce FX5200 including G5s, iMacs & powerbooks.

odd that, as the 5200 supposedly supports Core Image....

We know that it can do the "translucency" effect (transparancy + blur) because it does it in the menus!

But I agree that seems to be the trend.

 

[illicium]

2.2 SR MBP TRANSPARENT Menu Bar

 

[j3tang]

PPC G4 1.25GHz | 1.5gb Ram | GeForce FX 5200 64mb

not transparent