Option to render desktop with the graphics card
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Option to render desktop with the graphics card
If you have a system that has a decent graphics card then why not have an option to offload the desktop and window rendering to it. X.org and Longhorn are going to be shipped with this implemented and it sounds like a more efficient use of resources on those computers that can handle it.
Re: Option to render desktop with the graphics card
It is. Mac OS X is loaded with "Quartz Extreme" witch takes everything from drawing windows to text anti-aliasing to the graphics card. Doesn't only make those 'pretty' effects faster but indeed unloads the CPU significantly. Since it is done with OpenGL 32 bit color is faster as 16 bit (then it has to dither). It needs a decent video card though.rastilin wrote:If you have a system that has a decent graphics card then why not have an option to offload the desktop and window rendering to it. X.org and Longhorn are going to be shipped with this implemented and it sounds like a more efficient use of resources on those computers that can handle it.
If you do not have an interface with much 'nice' effects like shadows, transparancy, "scale"/"warp" effects, and 32 bit color sprites with an 8 bit mask I guess 'offloading' it is pretty useless. Most videodrivers take care of some basic 2D acceleration witch let you scroll faster trough documents for example (correct me if I'm wrong).
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