Hi Carl,
The issue I'm seeing with EXA is that window drawing (2d) performance is very slow to the point where it feels like I'm using a very old system with a vesa driver. Minimizing, maximizing, or dragging windows around is laggy. Not unusable slow, but probably a good 10 times slower than with XAA. I don't have the desktop effects enabled (although I believe AIGLX is turned on). I don't know of a good way to benchmark window drawing performance but I would be happy to provide some hard numbers instead of my subjective "goes slow" statement if there's a better way. There was a Video BIOS update for the T61
(http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-67988)
that I installed to see if it helped but it didn't. From
the release notes:
"(Fix) Intel GM965 Video BIOS was updated to v1668 to fix a blue screen error
issue on the Windows Vista."
Just let me know what additional information I can provide.
Thanks,
Dan
Hi Carl, www-307. ibm.com/ pc/support/ site.wss/ document. do?lndocid= MIGR-67988)
The issue I'm seeing with EXA is that window drawing (2d) performance is very slow to the point where it feels like I'm using a very old system with a vesa driver. Minimizing, maximizing, or dragging windows around is laggy. Not unusable slow, but probably a good 10 times slower than with XAA. I don't have the desktop effects enabled (although I believe AIGLX is turned on). I don't know of a good way to benchmark window drawing performance but I would be happy to provide some hard numbers instead of my subjective "goes slow" statement if there's a better way. There was a Video BIOS update for the T61
(http://
that I installed to see if it helped but it didn't. From
the release notes:
"(Fix) Intel GM965 Video BIOS was updated to v1668 to fix a blue screen error
issue on the Windows Vista."
Just let me know what additional information I can provide.
Thanks,
Dan