Hardware acceleration and other fixes for Wahoo

Readers' comments

Comments left by My Opera members under the original post: the first 50, as archived.

• KilokilozaMonday, December 19, 2011 2:36:44 PM

  New week, new build.
  
  Thanks Team.
  
  YAY.

• Ravindran NavaneethanRavindranMonday, December 19, 2011 2:39:18 PM

  Quick question.
  
  Do you have any plans for fixing & enabling HWA for previously disabled display drivers?

• Atilla GöğüslüatillagogusluMonday, December 19, 2011 2:46:01 PM

  Scroll performance must be increased.
  Some elements are making lag.

• Yury VolynetsSviadomyMonday, December 19, 2011 2:46:01 PM

  Thanks
  Testing

• SteveKongMonday, December 19, 2011 2:46:21 PM

  5th - Thanks a lot for the fix of artifacts after closing a tab!

• VitaliyVarrkanMonday, December 19, 2011 2:49:54 PM

  scrolling still laggy...

• saqum009Monday, December 19, 2011 2:52:47 PM

  thank you.
  Which is much faster than previous versions.

• eliotcougarMonday, December 19, 2011 2:54:35 PM

  Google MapsGL still crashes:
  The NVIDIA OpenGL driver lost connection with the display driver due to exceeding the Windows Time-Out limit and is unable to continue.
  
  The application must close.
  
  Windows7 x64
  Vendor ID 0x10de
  Device ID 0x0606
  Driver version 8.17.12.8579

• Nicolas ChagnetnchagnetMonday, December 19, 2011 2:59:09 PM

  There's a problem with the Gnome Shell version. Themes let a bar at the top of the title bar, a colored bar. When you try to maximize, this bar disappeared, but you can't move the window after ...

• blackcoderMonday, December 19, 2011 3:05:36 PM

  http://files.myopera.com/blackcoder/files/opera%201200-1213.jpg
  Minimize, Restore and Maximize-Button covert by a black rectangle.
  
  Vega-Back-End: OpenGL
  GL_VENDOR: ATI Technologies Inc.
  GL_RENDERER: ATI Radeon HD 3300 Graphics
  GL_VERSION: 3.3.11251 Compatibility Profile Context
  GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION: 3.30
  Vendor-ID: 0x1002
  Device-ID: 0x9614
  Driver-Version: 8.911.0.0
  
  Windows Vista

• eliotcougarMonday, December 19, 2011 3:06:12 PM

  Something is wrong... A lot of WebGL demos at http://www.chromeexperiments.com/webgl say that texture_float extension is not supported...

• KonstantinzxcatMonday, December 19, 2011 3:17:50 PM

  Do you plan to support Intel HD Graphics 3000 (which is an integrated graphics card in the Sandy Bridge codenamed processors).
  It's fast enough for most games, but not for Opera? ;)

• Jan MikulamikyjrMonday, December 19, 2011 3:21:04 PM

  Pannel toggle on the left is still not working.

• MichałEmdekMonday, December 19, 2011 3:35:38 PM

  Yeah, finally menubar visibility is taken into account on Linux. :-)

• alekksanderMonday, December 19, 2011 3:36:19 PM

  great work!

• VarunVarunMMonday, December 19, 2011 3:37:17 PM

  Panel Toggle unfixed, grrrrr

• QuHnoMonday, December 19, 2011 3:38:24 PM

  Much better! Couldn't crash it during the first 5 minutes, will try harder

• D1sasterp1eceMonday, December 19, 2011 3:42:17 PM

  UserJS blacklisting is still here and it's driving me nuts.
  http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1163352
  
  Furthermore, panel edge toggle doesn't work (as already stated).

• Javier GutierrezjgutierrezMonday, December 19, 2011 3:43:59 PM

  No Win64 builds this time?

• gwarserMonday, December 19, 2011 3:44:18 PM

  http://my.opera.com/gwarser/albums/showpic.dml?album=10271322&picture=137057302
  this should be transparent netmeter http://www.metal-machine.de/readerror/ window, but it flicker and i see desktop through it
  
  

• Jabber00Monday, December 19, 2011 3:47:56 PM

  Originally posted by blackcoder:

  http://files.myopera.com/blackcoder/files/opera%201200-1213.jpg
  Minimize, Restore and Maximize-Button covert by a black rectangle.
  
  Vega-Back-End: OpenGL
  GL_VENDOR: ATI Technologies Inc.
  GL_RENDERER: ATI Radeon HD 3300 Graphics
  GL_VERSION: 3.3.11251 Compatibility Profile Context
  GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION: 3.30
  Vendor-ID: 0x1002
  Device-ID: 0x9614
  Driver-Version: 8.911.0.0
  
  Windows Vista

  Same here!
  Motore Vega OpenGL
  GL_VENDOR ATI Technologies Inc.
  GL_RENDERER ATI Radeon HD 3600 Series
  GL_VERSION 3.3.11318 Compatibility Profile Context
  GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION 3.30
  ID Produttore 0x1002
  ID Dispositivo 0x9598
  Versione driver 8.920.0.0
  
  Win Vista x64

• Ruarí ØdegaardruarioMonday, December 19, 2011 3:54:07 PM

  Originally posted by jgutierrez:

  No Win64 builds this time?

  No that was Labs release (a peak at some of the stuff we are doing on the side of our main development branch). This is a snapshot, which represents our main development branch. Snapshots which immediately follow a Labs release never contain everything from that Labs release. Once we have done further work on OOPP it will be merged into the main development branch and then you will see 64bit snapshots.

• Diego RomeroDriverOpMonday, December 19, 2011 3:56:28 PM

  I'm affraid that this buid has some problems rendering OTF (OpenType) fonts format.
  
  Look at this page:
  
  http://cabanaelarranque.com.ar/nosotros
  
  I'm using ArnoPro open type typography font. By the way, text must be in spanish, not some kind of klingon dialect
  
  In Opera 11.60 all is fine.
  
  My config:
  Windows XP SP3. Opera 12 alpha.
  Backend Vega
  OpenGL
  
  OpenGL
  Versión en lista 1.0.4
  Estado en lista de bloqueo para 2D Aceptada
  Estado en lista de bloqueo para 3D Aceptada
  GL_VENDOR NVIDIA Corporation
  GL_RENDERER GeForce 7600 GT/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW!
  GL_VERSION 2.1.2

• minhoMonday, December 19, 2011 4:01:36 PM

  Scrolling performance is very bad here
  http://www.submarino.com.br/
  
  Ubuntu 11.10 x32, HWA OFF

• ksleeMonday, December 19, 2011 4:08:34 PM

  Originally posted by desktopteam:

  • DSK-350763 [Mac] Newsfeed preview is blank in 64-bit build

  
  Typo? [Mac] 64-bit build

• minhoMonday, December 19, 2011 4:08:48 PM

  Opera has no close button after install theme.
  Ubuntu 11.10 x32, HWA ON or OFF

• Z1-AV69Monday, December 19, 2011 4:09:54 PM

  Thanks for fixing DSK-348663 ([Win] Scrolling through a panel when using a transparent skin corrupts panel background), works like charm for me.

• techprinceMonday, December 19, 2011 4:14:03 PM

  Originally posted by Ravindran:

  Quick question.
  
  Do you have any plans for fixing & enabling HWA for previously disabled display drivers?

  Originally posted by zxcat:

  Do you plan to support Intel HD Graphics 3000 (which is an integrated graphics card in the Sandy Bridge codenamed processors).
  It's fast enough for most games, but not for Opera?

  Maybe after they're done with the D3D backend?

• eehsunMonday, December 19, 2011 4:22:12 PM

  Does anyone experience anything similar to this?
  
  http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show.dml/36457272?startidx=150#comment72541932
  
  
  Edit: Oh I've completely missed @blackcoder's post! He has the exact same issue as I have.. Maybe a Vista-specific bug?

• NiColaoSNikDaMarkMonday, December 19, 2011 4:24:43 PM

  I'd really like to give much attention on one thing... For example, Firefox makes the Graphics Card SOMETIMES to go on 3D clocks ( full power ) purely unneeded! Only IE9 utilizes the card efficiently! Currently, Opera forces the card to run on P0 state many times, likewise, but I've hope since it's still in alpha version.
  
  I truly "can't wait" for Direct3D/2D instead of OpenGL on Windows 7!

• nimu_channimuchanMonday, December 19, 2011 4:26:48 PM

  Oh...Thank you!! it is great!!

• JackWagonMonday, December 19, 2011 4:29:57 PM

  REGRESSION:
  
  Panel toggle at edge of window stopped working as of last "Next" build and on the latest "Lab" build. You can click on the toggle, but nothing happens. Would someone kindly confirm? Thank you.

• P2O2Monday, December 19, 2011 4:30:35 PM

  > DSK-351312 Scrolling page with Flash inside iframe doesn't scroll the Flash animation
  
  Debian 6.0.3 Linux 3.1.5 x64
  AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 245 Processor
  ATI Radeon HD 4200 embedded in ASRock M3A785GM-LE/128M
  AMD Catalyst 11.12 (latest)
  Shockwave Flash 11.2 d202 (beta x64)
  Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_30 (latest)
  
  HWA is OFF (0)
  
  Testing page: http://przedszkole102krakow.pl/vid_wyd_arz.html
  
  There are artifacts left on the page with opened Flash when the page is being scrolled up/down plus the flash frames are being moved from their places:
  
  
  After the test I have found rt.com page without flashes, there were left empty spaces only:
  
  
  Correct rt.com pages:
  http://pp.blast.pl/rt/opera-next_1213_3_s256q85.jpg
  http://pp.blast.pl/rt/opera-next_1213_4_s256q85.jpg
  
  Regards
  

• adioniMonday, December 19, 2011 4:38:02 PM

  Awesome. On the Mac build and so far this is pretty darn stable; no random crashing with a good number of tabs open like in prior builds.
  
  Thank you especially for DSK-351312 ...the non-scrolling of flash videos was extremely annoying.

• QuHnoMonday, December 19, 2011 4:43:40 PM

  Originally posted by blackcoder:

  blackcoder # Monday, December 19, 2011 4:05:36 PM
  
  http://files.myopera.com/blackcoder/files/opera%201200-1213.jpg
  Minimize, Restore and Maximize-Button covert by a black rectangle.
  
  Vega-Back-End: OpenGL
  GL_VENDOR: ATI Technologies Inc.
  GL_RENDERER: ATI Radeon HD 3300 Graphics
  GL_VERSION: 3.3.11251 Compatibility Profile Context
  GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION: 3.30
  Vendor-ID: 0x1002
  Device-ID: 0x9614
  Driver-Version: 8.911.0.0
  
  Windows Vista

  
  Can't confirm. W7x64, same graphics hardware but different driver, HWA on:
  

  Vega-Back-End OpenGL
  GL_VENDOR ATI Technologies Inc. 
  GL_RENDERER ATI Radeon HD 3300 Graphics 
  GL_VERSION 3.3.11318 Compatibility Profile Context
  GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION 3.30
  Hersteller-ID 0x1002 
  Geräte-ID 0x9614
  Treiberversion 8.920.0.0

• SCRAMsequenceMonday, December 19, 2011 4:45:59 PM

  This (http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1119912) still hasn't been fixed, but I guess you know about it.
  
  Vista 64bit SP2, Opera 12.1213, Nvidia 8800GT, driver: 285.62

• Jernej SimončičеnderMonday, December 19, 2011 4:52:01 PM

  Antialiasing is still too dark with hardware acceleration enabled.

• Christophchristoph142Monday, December 19, 2011 4:54:51 PM

  Originally posted by JackWagon:

  REGRESSION:
  
  Panel toggle at edge of window stopped working as of last "Next" build and on the latest "Lab" build

  
  Confirmed.
  And just to make it sure for everyone: it's not a problem of the toggle but the far left and right borders of Opera are not responding. That's why the scroll bar doesn't react to dragging if you push your mouse to the far right as well (which is driving me nuts!)

• ldp83roMonday, December 19, 2011 4:58:18 PM

  With Hardware Acceleration enabled my computer (GPU ?) is making strange sounds when watching a live stream from http://www.own3d.tv (wait a few minutes before checking for the sounds).
  
  If i disable Hardware Acceleration the sounds go away.
  
  With other browsers (HA enabled) there are no sounds.
  
  Configuration:
  MB: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 v1.1
  CPU: Q6600 B3
  GPU: Gigabyte 470 GTX
  
  OS: Windows 7 x64 SP1
  Flash: 11.1.102.55
  GPU Driver: 285.62
  
  I have tried with the 2 latest GPU driver versions (280.26, 285.62) and no change, the strange sounds are still there.

• FhuryMonday, December 19, 2011 5:01:12 PM

  Thanks for the new snapper.
  
  Please take a look at DSK-331882
  
  Thank you

• adioniMonday, December 19, 2011 5:03:03 PM

  When default "Identify as Opera" is set, the font lettering on theverge.com & blog.gizmodo.com is all messed up.
  
  
  Changing network settings to "Identify as Firefox", however, displays the site properly.

• Javier GutierrezjgutierrezMonday, December 19, 2011 5:03:14 PM

  Originally posted by ruario:

  Ruarí Ødegaard

  
  Thank you very much for your explanation Ruarí Ødegaard
  Will wait to see Win64 builds soon here then.

• ДмитрийeoneoffMonday, December 19, 2011 5:22:18 PM

  I've noticed before that after I shut Opera down there still remains opera.exe process running with user system (not current user). But now I could not update Opera next - I was getting a "The instalation program could not replace skin\standard_skin.zip file. Error code 9" message untill I've killed this process manually.
  Yes, and Opera still crashes on a number of sites, on this one for example: http://www.gaikai.com/games# And it crashes every time on any attempt to open the problem site.
  Win 7 32 bit GeForce 8600 latest driver.

• Quadunit404Monday, December 19, 2011 5:30:57 PM

  HWA finally works on my hardware again
  
  Thank you!

• beelzebub360Monday, December 19, 2011 5:38:15 PM

  Ruarí Ødegaard & Opera team Big Thankyou
  
  Themes now work slightly better on Linux with hardware acceleration enabled
  
  DSK-347822 [*nix] Opera unusable on GeForce 7300 SE/7200 GS on Linux with nvidia 280.13-1
  
  but for me this occurs when browser is open for along time with 100+ tabs
  DSK-351879 [*nix] Crash on dropping tab onto tab stack in another window
  
  on various [*nix] versions
  32-bit, Intel integrated & Geforce 7300/7200
  

• Dmitry MojseenkoErasusMonday, December 19, 2011 5:40:17 PM

  My PC: Core i7 870 4.0 Ghz, 4Gb, GeForce GTX 275, Windows 7 64bit, Nvidia driver 290.36
  Scrolling speed is terrible on some heavy web-pages, like Youtube...

• ATLASSQPF1Monday, December 19, 2011 5:57:41 PM

  hardware acceleration + Show active frame border = black squares
  
  hardware acceleration + Extensions quick menu = wont close
  
  hardware acceleration + Windowed video = high cpu usage

• ATLASSQPF1Monday, December 19, 2011 5:59:13 PM

  All versions of opera,flash,and windows same problem for years now
  
  i changed my hw configuration several times but still
  
  full screen video stops loading and video controls flickering when hower cant click
  
  when minimized everything works but video using 100% cpu
  
  megavideo,videobb,gorillavid,putlocker,.......xhamsters,pornhub,......
  
  all possible sites on the "www" except youtube
  
  other browsers don't have that problem
  
  i am big fan of opera pls fix it i'm using opera since march 2007 when i got internet

• foxtrotangeltownMonday, December 19, 2011 6:00:34 PM

  Cool, greate work!
  //Pannel toggle is still not working (

• oxygenrootMonday, December 19, 2011 6:03:12 PM

  themes are working now on Linux.. openSUSE 12.1 64 bit. ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series. however, since applying the new theme, the minimize, maximize and close buttons on the top right bar have disappeared.. and they are not coming back even after changing the theme back to default or to any other, closing and opening the browser and enabling and disabling hardware acceleration doesn't have any impact.