Tyler,
The overwhelming consensus among knowledgeable users is precisely
what the Ars Technica AV moderator said:
2D performance itself these days is a complete non issue.
Every single thing I have ever read on the topic, including many,
many video card benchmarks, supports this view. My own personal
experience -- I went through three different video cards and four
different processors in my old Mac -- also supports this view.
Upgrading the video card never made the slightest bit of difference
to Finale redraw times (or any other non-video 2D task). Upgrading
the processor always did.
Look -- I'm amenable to evidence, but so far the only benchmarks
you've cited are apples-and-oranges comparisons of very old video
cards across very different machines. If you can produce 2D
benchmarks (ideally real-world app benchmarks) showing significant
differences in 2D performance between various current video cards
(keeping all other hardware constant), I'll be more than happy to eat
my words.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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On 09 Aug 2006, at 7:24 AM, Tyler Turner wrote:
--- Darcy James Argue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Did you read the rest of the thread you quoted? This
guy is clearly
in the minority. Plus, he's a total newbie at that
forum (38 posts).
The guy was not alone. Others posted saying that they
had experienced similar findings. That's the one
important thing to me - the people who had actually
EXPERIMENTED with it were indicating that there was a
difference. And those graphics benchmarks I linked to
gave more support to their case than their opposition.
Furthermore, my personal findings indicated that it
made a difference.
Everything I'm looking up about the graphic
acceleration slider indicates that it controls the
features that the video card handles. This includes
information from Microsoft's website.
The fact that turning that slider down actually
increases my performance when dragging the screen
around is a very strong indication that I have not
reached a maximum with 2D performance from this 256MB
video card.
Tyler
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