xrender to slow

Aaron aaronf0 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 20 23:27:12 CEST 2006


> Aaron wrote:
>
> > is this a bug, because compositor was flying before, but now its not
> > auto detected. or should there be a popup if its within a range asking
> > if you want to enable it even if its slow? i think alot of people
> > might start complaining about this if its in the beta code, as they
> > seem to like their transparencies...
>
> No bug here. If you think that the the benchmark is wrong and want to
> use the compositor, then tell it by using the cmd line option.
>
> It is important to understand that the compositor is now enabled by
> default, so that benchmark is mandatory to avoid using compositing on
> platforms without Render accelerated in hardware.
>
> You may think that Render is fast enough even without hardware
> acceleration for your needs on your platform, and then use the command
> line option.
>
> In any case, it's no worse than before where compositing was disabled by
> default... At worst you still need to "force" it use.
>
> Cheers,
> Olivier.

ok, thanks


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