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    Does Flash 10.1 support acceleration on T400/500 with discete graphics?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by qweewq11, Feb 23, 2010.

  1. qweewq11

    qweewq11 Notebook Guru

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    For better or worse, Adobe Flash is used extensively on websites. Flash 10.1 supports hardware acceleration for Flash for some graphics cards.

    Does anyone know if the discrete graphics card included with the T400/T500 is supported in Flash 10.1?

    If not, performance might actually be faster when using the integrated Intel chipset..
     
    qweewq11, Feb 23, 2010
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    as far as i can tell, yes

    but don't quote me on that - it's more of an educated guess
     
    cassiohui, Feb 23, 2010
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    I sure hope so; the major reason I went for the discrete graphics is to free up my CPU when streaming videos. Anyone know for sure?
     
    qweewq11, Feb 23, 2010
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    At the very least lenovo will have to release an updated driver, Flash 10.1 support was enabled from catalyst 9.11 onwards. The newest version of lenovo's switchable graphics driver is at 9.7. However, I'm not sure if ATi plans to support the HD3000 series for flash 10.1 hardware acceleration. According to most of the documentation and release notes for the new drivers, they only list the HD5000 and HD4000 as being supported...
    http://www2.ati.com/relnotes/Catalyst_911_release_notes.pdf
     
    miner, Feb 23, 2010
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