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Hardware Acceleration (Direct2D & DirectWrite) Any Time Soon
Hi,Well IE 9 and Firefox 3.7 are introducing Hardware Acceleration, what about Opera?
Specially, what is Opera's take on Hardware Acceleration via Direct2D & DirectWrite as found in Windows Vista SP2 (With Platform Update) and Windows 7?
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Will
It hasn't been enabled on the 10.5x builds, but it's coming. That said, it's still faster than IE9 with hardware acceleration so it doesn't matter too much.
Originally posted by Frenzie:
http://my.opera.com/core/blog/2009/02/04/vega
It hasn't been enabled on the 10.5x builds, but it's coming. That said, it's still faster than IE9 with hardware acceleration so it doesn't matter too much.
IE9 definitely beats opera in a lot of the ie9 speed demos, but opera does usually beat out firefox and chrome, its very impressive for software rendering.
Originally posted by ViperAFK:
IE9 definitely beats opera in a lot of the ie9 speed demos, but opera does usually beat out firefox and chrome, its very impressive for software rendering.
Actually, I only found 2 (out of 15?) where Opera was slower...
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Originally posted by D555:
It must be on OpenGL - to not use Win only D3D !!! Is it ?
In their original post about Vega, they wrote that they have a OpenGL AND a D3D implementaion. http://my.opera.com/core/blog/2009/02/04/vega
But I hope that they will use Direct2D and DirectWrite and will use OpenGL on Windows XP and older.
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Originally posted by Hades32:
and will use OpenGL on Windows XP and older.
I can assure you my OS isn't older than XP, but it'd still prefer OpenGL.
BTW, if you prefer OpenGL (or DX) it should be possible to force the if you change the blocklists that Opera is using to detect what your graphics card is capable of.
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Originally posted by finkfad:
Opera 12 alpha actually does have hardware acceleration... if your graphics card is capable of it or your graphics driver is up-to-date. My GPU is capable of handling hardware-accelerated browsing, but I'm leaving it off for now because it's a bit iffy on some sites.Still not in Opera 12 alpha it seems ... quite disappointing I must say.