[Intel-gfx] [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 2.8.0

Ben Gamari bgamari.foss at gmail.com
Mon Aug 3 14:08:23 CEST 2009


On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 12:39:02PM +0100, Barry Scott wrote:
> Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> >> Unfortunately real games are still not playable, way slower than the proprietary windows drivers.
> >>     
> > I wonder why there's always immediate slience by intel-devs when this
> > topic comes up.
> > The current opengl implementation is hardly useable for anything but
> > composition and clutter ;)
> >   
> Its not usable for composition, drops 30% to 50% of frames.

Oh I know. Compiz's Expo plugin is studderific (~12 fps). That is, of course, when
it's not wedging the GPU. ;)

- Ben




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