Mathiasdm
September 7th, 2006, 12:18 PM
If I understood correctly, we can have those fancy effects because the processing is off-loaded to the GPU.
Would there be any way to simulate this using the CPU?
I'm mainly asking because I have an SiS 760 on my laptop, and I'm 99% sure it'll never get 3D acceleration on Linux.
I think it would be a nice idea to activate such effects when no processor-intensive tasks are running, and de-activate it when it's needed (for a laptop: when using the battery).
I would like to give this a try, but I don't know if it's possible.
Would there be any way to simulate this using the CPU?
I'm mainly asking because I have an SiS 760 on my laptop, and I'm 99% sure it'll never get 3D acceleration on Linux.
I think it would be a nice idea to activate such effects when no processor-intensive tasks are running, and de-activate it when it's needed (for a laptop: when using the battery).
I would like to give this a try, but I don't know if it's possible.