Vista desktop acceleration

Do you get GDI acceleration in vista?
I'm wondering if something's messed up on my end or if Microsoft decided that the hw-accelerated presentation of the rendered window is enough.
An easy way to test this is to have a reasonable screen resolution (1600x1200 or so), open notepad and resize it to cover almost the entire screen. If GDI isn't accelerated you'll notice that it's slow to resize the notepad window (compared to winxp).

Vista is slow as fuck, no matter what. Thread over.

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>>1
Drop the GMA865 for a regular graphics card. Get moar RAM.

>>4
How will another graphics card help if it's not actually used for GDI calls? I'm not asking for how to fix this, I just want to know if it's an isolated issue or not.

To clarify, only GDI rendering is slow. Aero is doing it's thing by hw-accelerating the presentation of the already-rendered windows.

>>2
Haha, your computer sucks. It goes nice and smooth on my 5.3-vista-rating-computer (sucky hard drive). gb2/dos/

STOP USING VISTA YOU FUCKING FAGGOTS!
ENJOY YOUR AIDS!

>>6
Haha. Idiot. Vista is lots slower than XP and does EXACTLY the same. gb2/school/ there, visit the "calculate your parent's money they spend for your vista-crap"-thread.

>>7
STOP USING VISTA YOU FUCKING FAGGOTS!
ENJOY YOUR AIDS!

QFT

>>7
>>8
Bawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

STOP USING VISTA YOU FUCKING FAGGOTS!
Why? Works fine for gaming and video editing, which is what I want to do with this computer.

>>9
Works fine for gaming
AHAHAHAHA you are a faggot and you don't even know it. Enjoy your 10% less performance (Direct3D) or 40% less performance (OpenGL, lol Microsoft trying to fuck up with portability).

video editing
2 GB plz

Works fine for gaming...

but consoles will always work better.

>>1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Device_Interface . search for vista on that page

>>10
it's not a matter of portability. directx wasn't designed to work with opengl simultaneously. running an opengl and a directx app at the same time greatly degrades the performance of the whole system. since aero uses directx, running a opengl app would make the system unusable. this problem was solved by translating opengl function calls to directx function calls. the performance overhead is minimal but it does exist.

the whole opengl-translated-to-directx-in-windows is no different to directx being translated to opengl in wine or cedega. people report minimal performance loss when running a directx game under wine in linux (assuming the game operates correctly under wine).

>>12
Appreciated. I'll have to chalk it up as crappy drivers (nvidia) for the time being then.

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