KDE4 effects Xrender vs OpenGL

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri Feb 6 19:19:39 UTC 2009


Mark Bidewell wrote:
> I realized I jumped the gun on this question.  For some reason it
> takes a reboot for effects changes to fully implement.  After a reboot
> with Xrender enabled things slowed to a crawl and most of the effects
> wouldn't work.  The only improvement was in the performance of OpenGL
> games.

Indeed, OpenGL is normally faster unless you have a really crappy graphics
driver.

        Kevin Kofler




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