Nokia's original intentions of the PowerVR SGX 530
 

Not a big deal by any means, I'm just curious. What did Nokia ever plan to do with the GPU aside from a Bounce tech demo developed by Rovio?

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Angry Birds!!!

http://static.ibnlive.com/pix/sitepi...rds_111210.jpg

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Zen Bound and Rollercoaster use it so I would guess it was intended for 3d games :) but since Maemo died....well you know the rest :D

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Thank god it's there. I need my Angry Birds with a nice and smooth framerate. I've watched it run on an android phone without a GPU. It ain't pretty D:

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I'm sure Nokia even had original intentions to MAKE MONEY off the N900 ;)

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Yes, originally, but subsequent tests showed gold coins getting lodged between the phone and keyboard thus rendering the device useless; so they said "f**k it, we'll call it a tablet".

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i thought this would be interesting

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The pretty ui transitions all use the PowerVR, I imagine that a pretty UI is the main driving force, games are a secondary consideration imo.

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Its a shame we don't have a pretty and polished UI.

I love maemo, but it's not a polished as I did expect.

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There will be a really cool commercial program using the graphics chip, soon.

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I think UI is polished than any other existing UI...

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a nice, commercial, successful program for the N900? Still to come?

I hope you're right ...

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lets hope final meego will fly beautifully on the OMAP3430 incl SGX530

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If a pretty UI was the main driving force, we wouldn't have laggy kinetic scrolling.

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powerful gpu to watch high definition porn to help ppl with erection issues with really small screens..

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That's wronger than wrong. Else we'd have 30 to 60 FPS kinetic scrolling and transitions wouldn't slow down the phone. There is a way to enable hardware sync for transitions, which is off by default, but it actually slows down the phone.

Fact is, hildon-desktop is powered by the processor, the Cortex. Nothing else. That's why I want to surround my N900 with M60 firecrackers, the UI isn't as nice as the promo videos showed it off as, and UI is very important to me. Damn you HPalm, release WebOS to a decent looking phone!

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Go read the code, the transitions are handled by GLESv2 and Clutter.

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For anyone who's interested, it can be done by turning "WSEGL_UseHWSync=0" in /ect/powervr.d/hildon-desktop.ini from 0 to 1.
It makes everything smooth but causes instability.

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what do you mean with instability?some glitches and bugs?or reboots?

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Random freezes that require reboot while using dropdown menus.

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SGX 530?

Overclock it's voltage (somehow).
Get true HD (1080p @30fps) running smoothly.
Get (once hardware accelarated) emulators (N64, PSX) to run fullspeed
Get graphic intensive games (eg Asphalt 5) to run on true HD output
Get 3D (2560 x 720 @24fps) running smoothly
Play Crysis

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The transitions did get a lot smoother and I'm not experiencing any random freezes. try it atilla maybe it works on your N900.

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yeah sounds nice
but i don't want to flash my phone

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My high definition porn vids don't play on my N900. Can you tell me how its done. :(

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Just wondering - might this be in some way related to that infamous GUI freezing bug ?

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Well look at the PalmPre games, then you see how useful it actually is ;)

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SGX has nothing at all that can help with video decoding.

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I am, because I'm testing it at the moment.
It's a *really* awesome program. Hope that they will allow me to make a preview video, soon...

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O.o well that sounds nice.

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Great, but if that is the case, then Nokia did a shitty job at them, because the run like trash. Hildon is the downfall of the N900. I would rather have no transitions and a powerful UI over some half-baked transitions and a laggy, crash-prone UI.

I wouldnt count on this happening, ever.

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Man, someone really pissed in your cornflakes.. :)

GTK+'s crap for utilizing the GLES core in a proper way, which is a good reason why Nokia went with Qt.

And there's a tool for disabling transitions if you so want.

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I think the app that you're describing is already released :)

http://store.ovi.com/content/42450

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Is it still working ok for you? I tried it after reading your post and while the transitions were smoother, the GUI has locked up three times with it enabled when my N900 was previously stable.

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Is this like the Rick Roll of the Ovi Store? :p

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for me it's much more smoother and havent had any instability. maybe because its overclocked???? 500, 1150 @ ideal?
also tried 500, 950 @ideal and it works fine :D
thanks Lemonadium

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my mobile is up for around 5hrs with hardware sync for transition on and till now no freeze no hang and using power kernel at default clock speed and of course smoothness in transition is noticeable

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Course GTK+ sucks at effiency. Nokia should have taken that into consideration when developing their highest end Nseries to date.

all i'm saying is they should have worked on both transitions and UI, not just one or the other, and since they only worked on one, imd rather have a good UI instead of transitions.

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hello guyz, i also changed WSEGL_UseHWSync to 1 and now i can see the transitions are much smoother but still if i scroll i still get choppy scrolling :( is this because of some driver? can this be fixed?

PS: im new to linux and maemo but im a quick learner :)

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mines overclocked and i have no choppiness...

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@ tele: hi can you please direct me to the thread where it explain what type of overclock i need to do to get rid of this choppiness? btw does overclocking drain battery? what are the disadvantages?
thanks :)