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Josef W. Segur:
--- Quote from: Jason G on 28 Jun 2011, 03:45:53 am ---I think we should petition MS & Mozilla to stop trying to use our precious GPU resources :P
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Heresy! There's no more important use of computing resources than web browsing!
I don't know which browser started the "hardware acceleration" thing, but the best we can hope for is that they provide an option to turn it off.
Joe
Jason G:
Ahah!,
firefox's built in about:support page shows:
GPU Accelerated Windows1/1 Direct3D 10
on mine, now to find out how to disable that rubbish...
Mike:
--- Quote from: Josef W. Segur on 28 Jun 2011, 12:29:08 pm ---
--- Quote from: Jason G on 28 Jun 2011, 03:45:53 am ---I think we should petition MS & Mozilla to stop trying to use our precious GPU resources :P
--- End quote ---
Heresy! There's no more important use of computing resources than web browsing!
I don't know which browser started the "hardware acceleration" thing, but the best we can hope for is that they provide an option to turn it off.
Joe
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Agreed.
Thats one of the reasons i stick with firefox 3.
Jason G:
Found it. In firefox 5.0 the setting is on the advanced options page. unticking 'Use hardware acceleration when available' has resulted in about:support showing now:
GPU Accelerated Windows0/1
Cranking the 480 back up to 3 tasks :D
[Edit:] Found an equivalent looking setting in IE9's advanced options as well. ticked "Use Software Rendering Instead of GPU rendering" & restarted the browser as directed by the fine print. Hah! eat cpu cycles browsers :P
Claggy:
--- Quote from: Jason G on 28 Jun 2011, 01:06:34 pm ---[Edit:] Found an equivalent looking setting in IE9's advanced options as well. ticked "Use Software Rendering Instead of GPU rendering" & restarted the browser as directed by the fine print. Hah! eat cpu cycles browsers :P
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I switched that off on my Laptop's 128Mb 8400M GS almost as soon as IE9 came out as it made the Desktop Very Laggy when collatz was running,
i was going to post today asking if Firefox 4 & 5 had a similar option, but afternoon snooze got in the way, ::)
Claggy
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