Quadro 4000 - problems with antialiasing?

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Quadro 4000 - problems with antialiasing?

I've tried to make a search, but i can't find a solution

I've just installed my new Quadro 4000 for Mac. I use it with the HP Dreamcolor LP2480zx monitor.

But... the text (menu, icons, windows, etc) appear with no antialiasing.
At this level, the Quadro 4000 card seems to be pretty unusable. I get a better text display using the DVI output or DVI adapter rather than the Display Port, but I'm really disappointed

Maybe the problem is OSX doesn't support 10 bit for windowed desktop, so the DVI is better than the Display Port (10-bit) output

Is there a solution?

Mac OS X (10.6.6), Nvidia Driver Version: 256.01.00f03

Posted on Mar 11, 2011 5:03 AM

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Mar 11, 2011 6:32 AM in response to mlore

Make sure you have set:
System Preferences > Appearance > Font Smoothing ...

... to values that are appropriate.

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The hatter

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Mar 11, 2011 11:35 AM in response to mlore

Your HP, if like mine (HP ZR24w) came with CD and drivers for your monitor. Doesn't seem to be needed using DVI but when I wanted to use MDP it definitely didn't work properly w/o the CD.

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mlore Author

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Mar 14, 2011 5:01 AM in response to The hatter

Thank you for your answers

I already tried to modify the values of "Turn off text smoothing for font sizes".. but it doesn't change anything. The text remains the same, either at 4, 6, 8, 12 size

As for the driver, there are no drivers for OSX!

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Aug 25, 2012 6:14 PM in response to mlore

Has anyone found a solution for this problem? I'm having it too - Quadro 4000 graphics card for Mac using displayport connection to Dreamcolor. Aliasing and overall image quality is terrible and color space / dreamcolor engine is grayed out.

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