On Friday 15 August 2008 14:14:16 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > that their drivers for the 8XXX and 9XXX series suck (on win and lin) is > only one of their problems.
I wasn't aware that there was a problem with the windows drivers. I thought the suckiness on linux came mostly from the X architecture together with nVidia's approach of window rendering done inhardware and redirected resizes done in software - the opposite approach to most other driver authors. Turns out that composite resizing is done a whole lot more often than was beleived. Plus, the X architecture is not conducive to the hardware calculations always being done in hardware, resulting in frequent fallbacks to software methods, which slows down the content rendering - the very thing that was supposed to be blazingly fast. 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. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
