On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Oddly enough, 3D is very very snappy. It's the 2D stuff that cripples the > performance, and on a desktop, 2D is exactly what you want.
AFAIK the problem is that the 8XXX series doesn't really have 2d hardware anymore - everything is done in the 3d part - and the drivers to support that are harder to write than anticipated.

