An Enlightening experience!

[Pedro Mateus]

I’m taking the Pepsi challenge on Linux DEs/WMs.

This week I’ll be hammering on Enlightenment 19.

After pounding it into an acceptable desktop (no easy feat with the E, I assure you!), I decided to run Unigine Heaven 4 on it.

Now let’s compare that to XFCE4:

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Yeah! So as it turns out, fully composited Enlightenment has better OpenGL performance for 3D rendering than non-composited XFCE.

[Freejack_]

On Xubuntu right? Try Manjaro…..if you need any help I can help you but I did it in about 2 hours resetting all my stuff back up. Pick your desktop……..XFCE LXDE or even Enlight….. I never could get it how I wanted it.

[strider]

The difference between the two benchmark is less than 1 FPS, and you’re drawing conclusions from *that* ?

[Pedro Mateus]

The difference between the two is 19 points. 288(XFCE) vs 307(E19)

11.4 average FPS (XFCE) to 12.2 (E19)

Maximimum FPS reached: 19.5 (XFCE) to 20.1(E19)

When you’re stuck with old ass hardware, those little gains matter.

Also, running a little benchmarking with CSGO reveals the gains to be higher than 1 FPS (marginally):

E19: 43.23
XFCE4.10: 42.07

Also of note, I don’t get tearing on E19 while in XFCE it’s all over the place.

[strider]

Unaccounted4 wrote:

Also of note, I don’t get tearing on E19 while in XFCE it’s all over the place.

Now, that’s something more interesting than a 1 (or 2) FPS gain!

[Orn]

Unaccounted4 wrote:

Also of note, I don’t get tearing on E19 while in XFCE it’s all over the place.

I thought I was the only one having this issue

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