2014-01-23, 19:39
also, the new pipelight has some improvements to GPU Acceleration:
is there a way to do this? or is this for the Chrome Launcher?
Quote:--[AMD GPU Acceleration]--
The Silverlight plugin still has some problems on AMD graphics card and the GPU acceleration is therefore disabled by default if Pipelight detects neither a NVIDIA nor Intel graphic card. We were now able to track down the problem to the drawing call ordering which is different between Windows and Wine's D3D layer. Stefan Dösinger is working for Codeweavers on a patchset to implement the same behaviour as on Windows, which also solves this problem. Nevertheless, applying around 200 patches on Wine makes maintaining much more complicated and we are therefore going to wait till they landed which hopefully shouldn't take too long. In the meantime we added the value 2 to the PIPELIGHT_GPUACCELERATION environment variable which will enforce the same drawing ordering as on Windows by waiting till the drawing commands are finished. This costs some performance but should be still perform better on newer cards than no gpu acceleration at all. To test it, simply start your browser from a terminal in the following manner:
PIPELIGHT_GPUACCELERATION=2 firefox
is there a way to do this? or is this for the Chrome Launcher?