On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:38:49 +1000 David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com> said:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:33:59 -0500 Ross Vandegrift <r...@kallisti.us> > wrote: > > > On 01/16/2013 06:26 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > > you almost definitely will have to chase this up with your driver > > > vendors. > > > > > > 1. compositing with SOFTWARE works smoothly (well 20-60fps) on a > > > 600mhz penitum-m. > > > 2. it works "usably" on even lower end arm machines.. *IN SOFTWARE* > > > > Hmmm, this is not my experience on a 1.8Ghz dual-core athlon. With > > software rendering, I get noticeable visual stutter when switching > > virtual desktops. Dense text, webpages, and lots of windows on a > > desktop make it worse. Video tears pervasively. Flash video, not so > > hot to being with, is totally unusable. > > > > Should I expect better? Perhaps I need to tweak some other settings > > or compile differently? I just assumed that it was expected that > > software would be not so great. > > Before I noticed that the compositor on my desktop was set to software > instead of OpenGL like I wanted, I had noticed it was considerably > slower than I had experienced in the past (when it WAS set to OpenGL). > I do have dense text, the odd web page, but not lots of windows on a text - stuff rendered inside of application windows is entirely outside of comps influence/domain... its rendered by the client and/or the xserver and its rendering/accel. nothing to do with compositor - all comp sees is an image per window. > desktop. Flash I usually try to avoid so not much experience with it. > I'd not call it unusable though. No tearing, but I had vsync turned on > for what it's worth. This is on 3.2GHz AMD four core with more than > enough RAM, so My Mileage May Vary. vsync has no effect on software as there is no way to vsync in regular 2d x rendering. only via opengl. > I don't run X on that x486 I mentioned, so I can't compare. > > -- > A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants > coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, > MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current > with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft > MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122712 > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122712 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
