I am using PM v. 25.4.1 (Atom/WinXP) on a Dell Latitude D600 laptop, with a 1.6Ghx Pentium M processor and 1GB RAM.
I am wondering whether I should enable the PM option to "use hardware acceleration when available".
I would also appreciate a short explanation about what this is all about.
BTW, PM works very fast on my laptop. Thanks for the work.
Thanks for the help.
Hardware Acceleration Option
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This is a self-serve support board for our community. The development team can't provide any support for Windows XP (and compatible versions of Pale Moon for it) any longer.
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Re: Hardware Acceleration Option
Hardware acceleration will, when available, use the additional computing power of your graphics chip to speed up certain operations. In the case of old laptop hardware this is going to be limited, but should still provide a small boost to the compositing and rendering of web pages, depending on exactly what chip you have and what drivers you have installed for your graphics card/chip in the laptop. On legacy hardware and operating systems it may not work or even be detrimental, so it's worth a try and easy to switch off again if you run into visual or performance issues.
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