> I tried the pat patch just now, and it doesn't seem to improve the > load or change the other effect I mentioned. >
the pat patch is very effective for me in many situations. however, there are some paths through the draw code that are not optimized, or, still require large reads from the frame buffer. and a few cards (especially nvidia ones) have other performance problems that seem unrelated. i get about a 10x speedup from the pat patch for most operations. bringing a partially obscured large window to the foreground is not one of them. note to self: raise the priority of getting to that intel gma driver. - erik
