Jennifer L | Blue Wave Studio

I tried to start up Final Cut Express on my Macbook and was greeted with an error message:


Configuration Error: This software requires certain hardware or software which is missing.

* Quartz Extreme Support


Macbook, why you gotta lie like that?

It was probably because of a recent software update. I had this error before and convinced Final Cut Express that I really did have Quartz Extreme Support; System Preferences was reporting that I did not have Quartz Extreme support even though the Intel GMA 950 that comes with the Macbook supports it.

Last time, I think I replaced instances of “AGP” to “PCI” in FCE’s info.plist, but this time there was nothing of the sort to replace.

I ended up deleting the line in FCE’s info.plist that checks for Quartz Extreme:


<key>AELMinimumQuartzExtremeCapable</key>
<string></string>


This worked, however, when I tried to put the line back to reproduce the error, I couldn’t. Maybe my Macbook has learned to stop lying about it.

Or maybe changing the permissions on the AppleIntelGMA950.kext file would’ve fixed it. I’m hoping it won’t come up again.

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