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In response to: Presenting: Direct2D Hardware Acceleration In Firefox Nightlies

D2DDW [Visitor] — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:24:19 +0000

Microsoft has released an update for Direct2D and DirectWrite, might help with the bugs.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2028560

Win7 32bit
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b607f3ee-61ef-4069-97c6-d8a8b90b40a5

Win7 64bit
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e04dd3bd-c34b-42ef-978b-10b73e7d5bba

In response to: Presenting: Direct2D Hardware Acceleration In Firefox Nightlies

Daniel [Visitor] — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 06:02:39 +0000

Well, it worked perfectly for me. Is ironic but the Internet Explorer 9 Test Drive page is a good for testing Hardware Acceleration:

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Default.html

Firefox 4 Beta 3 performs really well. It seems that the next generation of browsers will use this a lot, glad to see Mozilla going in this direction.

Now gotta play with this...

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NV [Visitor] — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:16:13 +0000

Nvidia users should update to the latest GeForce 258.96 WHQL drivers.

Notebook driver pages were still not up or were pointing to wrong filenames, so direct download links to the drivers included.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-32bit-258.96-whql-driver.html

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-64bit-258.96-whql-driver.html

http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-win7-winvista-258.96-whql-driver.html

http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/258.96/258.96_notebook_win7_winvista_32bit_international_whql.exe

http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-win7-winvista-64bit-258.96-whql-driver.html

http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/258.96/258.96_notebook_win7_winvista_64bit_international_whql.exe

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Gabriel Dibble [Visitor] — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:20:49 +0000

My thanks for your efforts with Linux and your comments above explaining such.

My fingers are crossed for all your efforts and I am grateful to your team for everything :)

--
Humble Gentoo User

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Hassan [Visitor] — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:05:34 +0000

Fellows, this is awesome.

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ShadowVlican [Visitor] — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:31:52 +0000

while black fonts on white background seem to render fine (bold fonts look kinda weird though), the white fonts on dark backgrounds look like utter crap

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MrChuckman [Visitor] — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:26:56 +0000

I know that this problem was brought up, but I was wondering if there was a way to fix the GUI edginess when I enable hardware acceleration. The tabs load slower, the text looks horrible, and the buttons on the tool bar look very rough.

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hwti [Visitor] — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:44:59 +0000

I tested DirectWrite rendering on Minefield.
Fonts are more blurry than GDI (Cleartype enabled, but tuned to be less blurry than the default rendering).

This is the same strange rendering as IE9 preview : some words or letters are more blurry than others (but not the same on both browsers)