Author: Bo Persson
Date: 13:15:06 09/01/99
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On August 31, 1999 at 18:15:52, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On August 31, 1999 at 16:33:00, Larry Applebaum wrote: > >>You might take a look at >> >>http://www2.tomshardware.com/releases/99q1/990111/index2.html >> >>If it's too good to be true... > >From the above link... > >Andreas concluded: "Spintel is merely fixing some GDI performance failures of >some graphics cards. Thus you can only find some performance increase with >graphic intensive software. Modern software, using DirectX and thus skipping the >GDI won't benefit from the Spintel software. The card itself is nothing but a >copy protection for the Spintel software. I suggest to rather spend the money on >a new CPU, which will increase the whole system performance." > Or a graphics card with a better driver! GDI patching is a well known technique to modify Windows own graphics code to have it bypass Microsoft code and call the device driver earlier. More specialized code can make better use of the video hardware. Has been done by Matrox, Diamond and others for years. Bo Persson bop@gandalf.se
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