Unity 6.6: Still Regressing On Performance?

[Pallidus]

derp derp derpy derp but now you have the shopping lensers that will preview your gay porn from amazon derp derp derp

[garegin]

x is not outdated. x was already crap when it came out. back in the 90s normal people did not use unix, so the x devs didn't have to deal with angry customers. if windows had the same graphical glitches people would have hanged Microsoft from a lamppost. people don't realize how tolerant nerds are of bad software and their willingness to UseEsotericWorkarounds.

[hax0r]

how about ut2004, lightsmark, unigine, or some other non-shit quake based engine benchmarks.

[BoTuLoX]

how about ut2004, lightsmark, unigine, or some other non-shit quake based engine benchmarks.

I still don't know why they don't run more Unigine benchmarks, THOSE are the ones that matter for gaming.

[gens]

its not X's fault, its unity's

there are hardware accelerated composing window managers out there that don't have problems with full screen 3D apps, so why the 2 of you blame X...

[Hamish Wilson]

how about ut2004, lightsmark, unigine, or some other non-shit quake based engine benchmarks.

How would ut2004 be a better benchmark that an updated and optimized Quake derivative like Darkplaces (Xonotic)?

[Timo Jyrinki]

I think it'd be more interesting to compare also with unredirect fullscreen windows option turned on, similar to testing both the default and suspend setting with KDE4. In compizconfig-settings-manager, the setting is under Composite settings.

According to last comment on bug #980663, the setting will not be enabled by default for now because of remaining driver and (more minor) compiz bugs. But advanced users and gamers should make a note about it.

[gamerk2]

x is not outdated. x was already crap when it came out. back in the 90s normal people did not use unix, so the x devs didn't have to deal with angry customers. if windows had the same graphical glitches people would have hanged Microsoft from a lamppost. people don't realize how tolerant nerds are of bad software and their willingness to UseEsotericWorkarounds.

Speaking as someone who's entire backend was VMX VAX for a decade: I call BS. X was very good when it first came out; better then Windows at the time. Problem is, the backend of the kernel hasn't advanced nearly as much as it has in Windows (especially as of NT 6.1.xxxxxxx), so its a lot less stable. Unix/Linux/BSE needs something like the WDDM.

[Milos_SD]

Do they enable some kind of debuging in compiz before final release? Problems with not enough video memory is back (I had it in 12.04 beta too). Tvtime crashes when I try to fullscreen it, apple trailers that use totem shows all white screen when I fullscreen it, and a lot of windows when unminimized are black.

I have Nvidia 7600GT with 256MB VRAM and 304.51 drivers.

[d2kx]

Do they enable some kind of debuging in compiz before final release? Problems with not enough video memory is back (I had it in 12.04 beta too). Tvtime crashes when I try to fullscreen it, apple trailers that use totem shows all white screen when I fullscreen it, and a lot of windows when unminimized are black.

I have Nvidia 7600GT with 256MB VRAM and 304.51 drivers.

Enable oneiric-proposed or wait 1-2 days for the new compiz release to land in Ubuntu 12.10. It fixes, beneath others, two major NVidia regressions.