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Re: Graphics acceleration coming with Verizon 6.5 update! [unconfirmed]

You rang? Well, this is interesting news. But honestly I will bet it wont happen. And if it does it will be similar to what HTC did to the tilt. Remember the tilt? People were angry spitting fire at HTC for cutting corners and cripplint the Tilt. Everyone who bought that device were furious because their old 6700 was 3 times faster. So when everyone went home and installed their apps and gps software like tomtom and Igo, the thing ran at about 3 fps. So people wondered if the device was broken or the software was imcompatible. Well.. after a bit of research from the guys at XDa it was concluded that the Tilt had absolutely no acceleration and the gps software had nothing wrong buy rather the device was the problem. So soon afterwards www.htcclassaction.org was created to inform everyone on this matter. Believe it or not, the nagging and crying and complaining and mass emailing HTC got from their consumers actually paid off. HTC later released a special driver for ONLY the Kaiser (tilt). A qvt drivers. Apparently it fixed the tilt a bit but it was not fully unlocked with proper drivers. It was like a cheap driver that only optimized the software rendering a bit more to satisfy and keep the negativity off their backs. Members at XDA tried to port over the drivers to all MSM72XX cpu devices but had little success with it. So now we are 3 generations ahead of time and we still have this exact same issue with the brand new released Pro2. So my suspicions are that they will do the exact same deal when WM 6.5 gets officially released. They will include a driver that will NOT fully use the Imigeon Graphics chip but rather just optimize the software rendering a bit more. This is my HONEST opinion. For those who hate to hear the truth and are contempt with their unaccelerated devices (Pro2), do me a favor and pic up a old Treo Pro running on WM 6.1. And you will see what true hardware acceleration looks like. Put it this way, WM 6.1 is like a whole new Beast the renders very smooth. Tom tom and Igo run at 30fps and above. So next time you all launch tomtom and see the thing crawl at 3 fps, just take a second and look at it. ANd ask yourself.. "Why does it move like a old Voodoo graphics card?

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