Flickering in graphics-heavy applications

[Dotan Cohen]

> Which ATI card?
>

ATI Radeon Mobility X1400


> The older r300-r500 drivers (generally the xXXXX series cards, with a few
> exceptions at either end) are somewhat better, but of course, the hardware
> is generally weaker, too.  That'd probably depend on the resolution you're
> running stuff.

I'm running at 1680*1050 with the FOSS drivers. Note that Compiz /
Kwin effects run smooth as silk.


> And if you mean XRender instead of OpenGL based compositing, it works, but
> is generally slower than OpenGL, so yeah, you're going to have artifacts.
>

No, I am using OpenGL.


> Basically at this stage, you're best toggling off compositing when you're
> doing heavy graphics.  I /think/ it's supposed to turn it off when you run
> a full-screen app on top of the stack anyway, but I never see it as I run
> dual monitors and basically don't full-screen to both, only one, which
> apparently doesn't turn off the compositing automatically, so if I want it
> off I have to toggle it off.
>

The toggle plasmoid crashes Plasma for me, but I can toggle from
System Settings. Thanks!

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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