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On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Thursday 28 August 2008 17:56:37 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: |
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> > Ben, sorry, my question is OT wrt your message. |
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> > Are there indeed good things (I don't mean ruches and flowers) in KDE4 to |
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> > worry about them at all? Reading all those KDE4 reviews I really can not |
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> > understand why KDE4 may be more useful for me rather KDE3. |
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> Don't even bother trying KDE4 if you have a recent nVidia card. Performance |
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> is atrocious as KDE4 uses acceleration effects in plasma etc that nVidia |
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> didn't account for in their driver, with the results that significant |
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> amounts of rendering are done using a software path (i.e. not in hardware), |
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> which is very slow. |
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> There also doesn't appear to be any quick fix coming anytime soon. |
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well, it was mostly fixed with their latest beta drivers. |
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