[3ddesktop-dev] Re: Question about the speed of operation.
- From: Jeff Buck <jeffb@xxxxxxxx>
- To: 3ddesktop-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:15:50 -0700
If I recall correctly your display resolution, and your texture size
probably have a lot to do with it.. Every time I would upgrade,
3ddesktop would be slower until I messed with my texturesize settings to
make it use less ram and take a faster sample.
Is there a reason you prefer using 3ddesktop instead of something like
compiz? I loved 3ddesktop, and I'm very grateful to the author for
having written it, but I don't believe that it's been under any active
development for years. It was definitely ahead of it's time, but it's
time was about 5 years ago before beryl/compiz were usable. I would
venture a guess that Brad (the author) probably doesn't use 3ddesktop
anymore. Compiz is infinitely more flexible, and puts real 3d / opengl
right into the window manager instead of as a magical smoke and mirrors
overlay. Ubuntu has even switched to using it as the default window
manager when there is 3d support. It's not flashy in it's default
config, but if you install the "Advanced desktop effects settings"
package you can quickly set up a plane or a cube with your desktops
mapped to it..
On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 16:12 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> I have two 'puters. Machine 1 is running an ATI Saphire X1650PRO, and
> Machine 2 is running with a NVIDIA GeForce 6600. M1 is brand new and M2 is
> about two years old.
>
> When I run 3ddesk on M1, it takes about almost a full three seconds for
> the operation to get to a specified desktop to complete. On M2 it takes less
> than 1 second. I should note that the program completes almost instantly,
> but the operation to switch is what's taking time.
>
> Is this an expected result of these cards or is there something else I
> should be looking at, or is this just the way it is?
>
> TIA
>
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