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Windows 7 GUI slowness

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Windows 7 GUI slowness

A short demo showing slow 2D drawing in the Windows 7 GUI compared with XP. It attributes the slowdown to the display driver model lacking hardware accelerated GDI.

Used as the reference example when people argue Windows UI responsiveness regressed after XP.

6 Hacker News mentions · 2011–2025

Topics

  • Software performance & optimization
  • Operating systems & kernels

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