"His card is fast enough, the problem might be the memmory on the card, it is shared with rest of the system, and thus is not a dedicated set of ram-chips.
Because these chips are on the other side of the agp-bus, performance might take a hit if the textures are really big. Are you using a large (as in MB's) desktop wallpaper?"
Not really, my DW weighs exactly 757 Kb. A regular 1280x800 jpg.
"Try removing it, and just using an opaque background color. That might help a lot".
Thanks, but that's the first thing I tried and sadly it didn't work.
"Offcourse testing with a speedier, card with onboard ram would also prove this".
That's totally not a feasible solution. I'm working on a laptop and changing the chipset is not possible. Besides, Compiz does seem to work properly once in a while, seemingly on a random basis. And with the same card.
Is there a way for me to record a video abut my desktop performance, like the ones Novell used to show the features of Compiz? I'd really like you to see the problem with your own eyes.
"His card is fast enough, the problem might be the memmory on the card, it is shared with rest of the system, and thus is not a dedicated set of ram-chips.
Because these chips are on the other side of the agp-bus, performance might take a hit if the textures are really big. Are you using a large (as in MB's) desktop wallpaper?"
Not really, my DW weighs exactly 757 Kb. A regular 1280x800 jpg.
"Try removing it, and just using an opaque background color. That might help a lot".
Thanks, but that's the first thing I tried and sadly it didn't work.
"Offcourse testing with a speedier, card with onboard ram would also prove this".
That's totally not a feasible solution. I'm working on a laptop and changing the chipset is not possible. Besides, Compiz does seem to work properly once in a while, seemingly on a random basis. And with the same card.
Is there a way for me to record a video abut my desktop performance, like the ones Novell used to show the features of Compiz? I'd really like you to see the problem with your own eyes.