| Re: "Tearing" In XP Has Not Been A Problem For Me |
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Group: microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize · Group Profile
Author: DevilsPGDDevilsPGD Date: Mar 7, 2007 14:59
>> If someone wants to spend top dollar on a new machine ONLY to obtain Vista,
>> ONLY to get rid of tearing then what's it to you?
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>I don't know why you're getting so upset over this. It's a reasonable
>exercise: to come up with a top-10 list of reasons why a person should
>upgrade from XP to Vista.
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>Sure, there might be someone out there who is horribly offended by the GDI
>repaint delay. That person will want to buy Vista. Perhaps you are that
>person. However, I don't think the repaint delay is at the top of the list
>for the average consumer. In fact, I contend the average consumer will not
>even notice it is gone.
My mom definitely will, and I think she's probably in the "average
consumer" definition most of the time (although she'll notice because of
a specific app that is slow at repainting that drives her nuts)
>Thus, I get back to my original point: What advantage is there of switching
>from the GDI to a GPU-based solution? So far, we have (after an exhaustive
>discussion) managed to come up with two reasons: the elimination of tearing
>and repaint delay. I'll add a third: transparent borders (fairly useless
>IMO). What else? Is that it? Has anyone proven the performance of the machine
>is any better?
Proven? No
-- However, it is perceptibly faster on my system. It's
nice to put that extra GB of RAM and combined 1.8GHz of CPU to work
doing something useful while I'm in Windows...
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Insert something clever here.
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