On 10 Aug 2006, at 4:41 PM, Tyler Turner wrote:
Just look at a Windows PC.
I don't own or have access to a Windows PC.
Are the two graphic cards in my two machines doing exactly the same tasks with these 2D images?
You mentioned one of the cards you own is an X600 (which is actually the PCIe version of the Radeon 9600). What is the other one?
Very likely not. The only thing that's clear is that one of the cards is getting through its processing tasks much faster than the other. With standard, default settings, one of them is able to draw the Finale output much faster than the other.
What is the default setting? All the way up?
It's not up to me to find a mention of every feature this slider turns on for every graphics card.
I'd settle for some indication of what specific features this slider enables on either of your graphics cards. Are these features that you need/want/use? Do they affect the visual quality of the display in any way?
It's up to you to find mention that turning up that slider also gives new tasks to the CPU, and does so in different ways from one installation of Windows XP to the next.
If it's anything like similar controls in 3D games, then if a graphics feature invoked by this slider isn't specifically supported by the graphics card, it has to be calculated by the CPU, causing a performance hit. But if that graphics feature makes no difference to 2D display quality, then enabling it would bog down your CPU (and thus, your redraw speed in Finale) for no good reason.
You still haven't said what visual difference this slider makes in Finale (if any).
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