Comment 30 for bug 1058040

@Dave Lents: Well, that might make it worth pursuing were I running a laptop. I do understand that the default driver probably runs up the main cpu(s) at high revs and uses the ATI/AMD module strictly as a presentation device, if that. My older Radeon 3000 GPU (AMD RS780 on-board chip set) never was very satisfactory, but this new driver is at least equivalent if not better.

The main 3D game I run is SimCity 4 Deluxe, and it runs a core at 100% all by itself. I'll have to have a look at the system monitor when this is running to see if the second processor on my system is doing more than maintenance things. SC4 was written in about 2000 and is single threaded, no GPU options.

It is really too bad that there cannot be enough air plenum in a laptop to cool the processors properly, but fashion dictates they be thinner and thinner. The penality for this is running hot with gaming. These machines are not not really for gaming, and anyone who expects desktop performance out of them is smoking something truly strange. Of course this makes it impossible to please the 'now' generation who really want games like this on their telephone. *sigh*.

It is hard to believe that the Univac II I first used has become what we have now.