Slow WPF performance on GMA 500 integrated graphics

Question

My team is developing WPF applications to be deployed on an Intel Atom Z530 netbook hardware platform. The Intel Atom Z530 comes with Intel GMA 500 integrated graphics, which h

Answer 1

I've found that all GMA chipsets on XP have terrible WPF performance. Not only low framerates but terrible graphical glitching and artifacting. Surfaces will become see through, video surfaces become a garbled mess, mouse overs will become glitchy.

Our solution has been to disable hardware acceleration via a registry patch that we offer customers that have issues.