Re: [AD] Memory Bitmap to Display blit slow?

[Milan Mimica <milan.mimica@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> On Sun March 1 2009, Milan Mimica wrote:
> > Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> > > I've been noticing this for a while now, but under linux, with the nvidia
> > > binary drivers, bliting a memory bitmap to a regular allegro 5 display is
> > > horrendously slow.
> > Upoading a bitmap from system memory to OpenGL texture is just slow, as
> > ex_membmp shows it. That's how I see it and never asked why.
>
> It's not 4fps on a Quadcore with a 8800GTS slow.

Reminds me, AllegroGL had this comment and I never looked into it:
/* XXX On NV cards, we want to use BGRA instead of RGBA for speed */



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