Graphics acceleration coming with Verizon 6.5 update! [unconfirmed]

[Noir]

truth be told
I knew there was no 3d drivers. One of the first threads about 3d drivers, I knew it!

But this doesn't deter me from purchasing htc products. To put it mildly, if I want to game, I will use my psp. I use it for business, calls, texts and emails. So far with xda developers I am very happy with the performance of my device.

[shaggylive]

not to hijack, but I started a thread late one night about a possible tweak. I'm don't do video, so I don't know much about all this, but Ya'll do. maybe someone can figure something out, as I couldn't find any references to it on the intertubes.
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=87987

[Magoo_215]

I thought driver was a hardware thing and that required a new device??? Im confused now....

Yay for Sprint pricing change....

[Meanee]

Don't see the whole driver as big deal. As long as I can watch Divx/xvid in CorePlayer, I am good. And I was able to do just that without a problem.

[Young_breedent]

Originally Posted by shaggylive

not to hijack, but I started a thread late one night about a possible tweak. I'm don't do video, so I don't know much about all this, but Ya'll do. maybe someone can figure something out, as I couldn't find any references to it on the intertubes.
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=87987

Off topic....i realized your avatar is of the twins and your from Iowa which would be understandable why your a twins fan. Have you seen the new stadium??? That thing is bad *** and i'n not even a big baseball fan. But i definitely will be checking out some games next season

[Exil3d]

Originally Posted by Noir

truth be told
I knew there was no 3d drivers. One of the first threads about 3d drivers, I knew it!

But this doesn't deter me from purchasing htc products. To put it mildly, if I want to game, I will use my psp. I use it for business, calls, texts and emails. So far with xda developers I am very happy with the performance of my device.

I do absolutely no gaming at all. But everyone would benefit from theacceleration. Not only will you get better battery life, but also when you scroll around on your browser. We all know how smooth the iphone safari is when you scroll around it right? Well.. dont you wish PIE,Opera and the rest of the WM browser could do that same? I bet you would. Thats why we need the drivers to have acceleration. Also.. reading emails. Sometimes we get long emails where we have to scroll down and down to read. Well.. this would also benefit from acceleration. It would scroll very smoothly and easy on the eyes. Everything that moves very Jerky on our MSM7200 devices(in which is everything) would be fixed instantly.

Originally Posted by Magoo_215

I thought driver was a hardware thing and that required a new device??? Im confused now....

Yay for Sprint pricing change....

It is a hardware issue. We have the hardware inside out phones. But we do not have the drivers that utilizes the hardware. DO this simple test. Uninstall your PC video drivers and let Windows load its standart video drivers. Then browse around thew web with your preffered brower and even open you email and scroll down you email .You will see a very eerily similarity to our Pro1,Pro2, touch,Mogul,tilt, etc. Just try it. Then you will completely understand why its critical to have these drivers. Another simple test you all can do is next time you head over to any Sprint or VZn store. Pick up the Treo Pro. That runs on WM 6.1. And browse the web with it and launch the camera. You will see that its 100x smoother. PIE on it is incredibly smooth! Almost make me cry when I use Pie on Treo pro because I always thought one of the problem why PIE is such a terrible browser was because its just a old browser with a old core on it. but to my amazement, it runs beetr than SAFAri on the Treo pro. Why? Simple. Treo pro utilizes the hardware acceleration. And that phone is old.

[RonDutt]

@Exil3d I have used 6.5 loads, I upgraded from a Touch to the Touch Pro, then to a Diamond, and now to a Touch Pro 2. Every device before this I had 6.5. From what I'm being told, it's not just optimizations, it's full blown drivers.

Another thing, the CDMA variants of TP2 use the 7600 vs the 7200...could just be licensing with the 7200 that kept Qualcomm/HTC from playing nice (remember the whole lawsuit thing in regards to the 7200? hence why some carrier TP's use the 7200a--the gimp(er) version of the 7200). So who knows...(and yes, I know that the 7600 is just the GSM+CDMA variant of the 7200, which is CDMA only and the 7501, which is GSM only).

[Malatesta]

Originally Posted by Exil3d

But everyone would benefit from the acceleration. Not only will you get better battery life...

Out of curiosity, where is the evidence for this? Seems counter-intuitive since it is the hardware that draws electricity.

Enabling hardware video acceleration in addition to the CPU I would think would draw more power, not less.

I also doubt this Verizon/driver story. Will ask around Tues in NYC.

[helix139]

Originally Posted by Malatesta

Out of curiosity, where is the evidence for this? Seems counter-intuitive since it is the hardware that draws electricity.

Enabling hardware video acceleration in addition to the CPU I would think would draw more power, not less.

I also doubt this Verizon/driver story. Will ask around Tues in NYC.

It's an efficiency thing. Hardware designed for a task will be able to perform it drawing much less power than hardware not designed for the task or using software emulation.

[Malatesta]

Originally Posted by helix139

It's an efficiency thing. Hardware designed for a task will be able to perform it drawing much less power than hardware not designed for the task or using software emulation.

I suppose, but seems more like speculation at this point since no once can actually demonstrate this on these MSM chipsets.