On Friday 29 August 2003 12:02, Idan Sofer wrote: > On יום שישי, 29 באוגוסט 2003, 11:30, you wrote: > > opaque window moving, or even simple > > redraws take way to much on my not-so-antique Duron 700Mhz. every single > > non X solution I tried can do any graphics faster then X. > > If I can remember correctly, opaque window moving cab be partly done in > hardware, the ability to quickly copy large sections of video ram(BitBlt?) > is provided by 2D accellrated graphic cards for years now, and XFree86 use > this facility if available. > > In fact I just did a small test, on my P3 700 I can move this pixmap-themed > KMail window quite smoothly.
I have Voodoo3 card on my Duron (700MHz,256MB) which is a very good 3D card (for its age) and also has some 2D acceleration. moving any kind of window - even simple single color boxes results in visible artifact trails. redraw under normal load (few applications idling) is noticeable (less then a second of delay) and under heavy load it is painstakingly slow. I haven't run M$-Win on it for a long time so I can't compare, but I'm pretty sure it behaves better - it does so on my two work computers which feature an identical P4/NVidia setup, and X is tons of time slower then the XP interface with full graphic ickiness. Granted M$ has better drivers for the both setups, but it shouldn't be that noticeable as long as I'm not doing 3D. -- Oded ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
