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Subject: Re: Dell's fault

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 04:48:51 10/12/05

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On October 11, 2005 at 02:27:33, A. Zanchetta wrote:

>Hi Albert,
>
>>I discovered (oddly enough) that I get different times depending on whether I am
>>using the 3/4 board with a toolbar on the right, or the full-sized board. I
>>double-checked this BTW.
>
>The X50v has a great processor but a really bad performance in 2D (there are 3D
>games very impressive but they are not accessing the screen the way standard
>apps do) so if PGM has to make more screen updates, it could explain the
>difference.
>
>Before having an X50v, I displayed CEBoard's board the simplest way possible :
>draw one by one each square. But when I got the X50v, the screen was flickering
>and I had to implement double buffering for the board.

At least for GAPI there is a 3rd party driver who accelerates 2D on the X50v.

Also, Dell has updated BIOS versions which improve 2D performance.

--
GCP



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