On Wednesday 28 October 2009 10:14:16 Kevin Kofler wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
> I know those concerns, only too well :-) This laptop is 4.5 years old,
> and wasn't state-of-the-art when I bought it. It has ATi Mobility Radeon
> X600 graphics , so it's little short of amazing that I can use desktop
> effects at all, but I carefully use only the minimum of effects, and
> temporarily disable them if watching video, for instance.
That thing is more than enough for desktop effects. Even the most basic
Radeon 7000 should be sufficient.
I'm not up on graphics cards specs - it's never been a priority until now
:-)
Really, the only things I particularly like are translucency and the dimming
of inactive windows (which stops me from closing the wrong window by accident,
as I've done too often in KDE4). I could be wrong, but I think the
translucency takes a fair bit of oomph, so I keep effects down to the ones I
need.
The thing that made the most difference, indeed changed desktop effects from
almost unusable into working quite well, was setting the fading duration right
down, as documented in
http://userbase.kde.org/GPU-
Performance#Some_things_that_may_speed_up_any_card.27s_performance
Anne
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