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On Friday 15 August 2008 14:14:16 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> that their drivers for the 8XXX and 9XXX series suck (on win and lin) is |
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> only one of their problems. |
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I wasn't aware that there was a problem with the windows drivers. |
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I thought the suckiness on linux came mostly from the X architecture together |
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with nVidia's approach of window rendering done inhardware and redirected |
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resizes done in software - the opposite approach to most other driver authors. |
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Turns out that composite resizing is done a whole lot more often than was |
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beleived. Plus, the X architecture is not conducive to the hardware |
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calculations always being done in hardware, resulting in frequent fallbacks to |
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software methods, which slows down the content rendering - the very thing that |
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was supposed to be blazingly fast. |
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Oddly enough, 3D is very very snappy. It's the 2D stuff that cripples the |
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performance, and on a desktop, 2D is exactly what you want. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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