ATI Rage Update: a follow-up

TIL article is back The Apple TIL article (#58275) on the ATI Rage Update is now back online. It states that the update "provides improved 2D and 3D acceleration for the ATI RAGE 128 graphic accelerator card shipping in the new Power Macintosh G3."

Good news (mostly) After an initial negative report last time, we now have mostly good news to report about the ATI Rage Update.

Adam Christianson found that it fixed "the window drawing problems in QuarkXPress 3.32r5."

Mike Shulman reports that it corrected the "graphical glitch problems with Adobe's PageMaker 6.52. Drawing a marque box no longer causes lines to be drawn all over the screen. Also, the menus in QuicKeys 3.5.3 now seem to draw properly. Previously, greyed out menu items would appear as blank spaces."

It also fixedvarious display problems for Paul DuBois, Melvin Astrahan, Gerald Van Kollenburg, and others. However, Gerald also noted a new glitch involving Windowshade boxes.

Finally, see the next item for confirmation that the update fixes problems with Myth II.

Bad news For a few readers, screen refresh times, as noticed most when scrolling, were a problem:

Stephan Stoske writes that the Update slowed down the screen refresh rate to more than 10 times slower than it was before.

Donald Perrreault concurs: "After installing the ATI Rage 128 update on my G3/BW 400, scrolling in CodeWarrior slowed down to a crawl. I then replaced the updated ATI extensions with the original ATI extensions and the problem disappeared."

Update: A couple of readers have associated these slow redraws with the Graphics Accelerator extension not loading at startup (an X appears through the icon when it would normally load). (Thanks, Colin Rose.)