I'm using Compiz 0.3.2 on Gentoo with the Nvidia 9626 beta drivers. First off, I would like to state that Compiz is very, very nice. The effects are very tasteful and enhance the desktop experience instead of being distracting. Compiz itself works great, the animations are smooth and it's very nice that it now uses the Metacity themes. The only reason I'm not using Compiz full time is that it clobbers the framerates of my other 3D apps, aka games. From what I understand, one way around this would be to activate the unredirect_fullscreen_windows option which would disable Compiz effects for fullscreen apps and hopefully restore the framerate of the games. Of course, that doesn't work. From what I read in the mailing list archives is that this feature doesn't work with COW, which is what the Nvidia drivers use with Compiz. I was just curious if anyone knew if this was still going to be fixed. It's been awhile since this bug has been mentioned last on the mailing list. -- Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 03:37 pm, Douglas Bollinger wrote:> I'm using Compiz 0.3.2 on Gentoo with the Nvidia 9626 beta > drivers. > > First off, I would like to state that Compiz is very, very nice. > The effects are very tasteful and enhance the desktop experience > instead of being distracting. Compiz itself works great, the > animations are smooth and it's very nice that it now uses the > Metacity themes. > > The only reason I'm not using Compiz full time is that it > clobbers the framerates of my other 3D apps, aka games. From > what I understand, one way around this would be to activate the > unredirect_fullscreen_windows option which would disable Compiz > effects for fullscreen apps and hopefully restore the framerate > of the games. Of course, that doesn't work. From what I read in > the mailing list archives is that this feature doesn't work with > COW, which is what the Nvidia drivers use with Compiz.On NVIDIA drivers at least, you can try using the old workaround to disable clipping of GLX rendering to the root window. With this workaround enabled, you don't need to use the composite overlay window, so you might get better results. Set the option in your X config: Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True" Then run compiz without the composite overlay window option. Thanks, -James Jones nvpublic> I was just curious if anyone knew if this was still going to be > fixed. It's been awhile since this bug has been mentioned last > on the mailing list.
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 18:37 -0500, Douglas Bollinger wrote:> I'm using Compiz 0.3.2 on Gentoo with the Nvidia 9626 beta drivers. > > First off, I would like to state that Compiz is very, very nice. The effects > are very tasteful and enhance the desktop experience instead of being > distracting. Compiz itself works great, the animations are smooth and it's > very nice that it now uses the Metacity themes. > > The only reason I'm not using Compiz full time is that it clobbers the > framerates of my other 3D apps, aka games. From what I understand, one way > around this would be to activate the unredirect_fullscreen_windows option > which would disable Compiz effects for fullscreen apps and hopefully restore > the framerate of the games. Of course, that doesn't work. From what I read > in the mailing list archives is that this feature doesn't work with COW, which > is what the Nvidia drivers use with Compiz. > > I was just curious if anyone knew if this was still going to be fixed. It's > been awhile since this bug has been mentioned last on the mailing list.I'll get it fixed eventually if no one beats me to it. -David
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 18:37 -0500, Douglas Bollinger wrote:> I'm using Compiz 0.3.2 on Gentoo with the Nvidia 9626 beta drivers. > > First off, I would like to state that Compiz is very, very nice. The effects > are very tasteful and enhance the desktop experience instead of being > distracting. Compiz itself works great, the animations are smooth and it's > very nice that it now uses the Metacity themes. > > The only reason I'm not using Compiz full time is that it clobbers the > framerates of my other 3D apps, aka games. From what I understand, one way > around this would be to activate the unredirect_fullscreen_windows option > which would disable Compiz effects for fullscreen apps and hopefully restore > the framerate of the games. Of course, that doesn't work. From what I read > in the mailing list archives is that this feature doesn't work with COW, which > is what the Nvidia drivers use with Compiz. > > I was just curious if anyone knew if this was still going to be fixed. It's > been awhile since this bug has been mentioned last on the mailing list.unredirect_fullscreen_windows, should now work properly when using the composite overlay window for output. -David