[PD] gem performance tweaking ...

[carmen]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:25:41PM +0200, Georg Holzmann wrote:
> Hallo!
> 
> >Did you try running two instances of Pd, one only for Gem, which
> >communicate through netsend/OSC etc.
> I just found out that it is because of [text2d] (antialiasing enabled) - 

if text2d uses freetype antialiasing (XFT) you can disable it in /etc/fonts/local.conf..

>  not with [text3d]
> 
> Are there special settings for nvidia cards ... because on my laptop 
> [text2d] need almost no cpu ...

theres a utility 'nvidia-settings' which can customize or completely disable AA settings on your card.