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'm almost certain that Atom processors with those graphics were never even considered when WPF was in its design and first implementation phases. WPF was in development over five years ago, long before GMA 500 graphics were around.

You may have better results with the Silverlight 4 stack, which was certainly designed for lightweight environments. Much of what is possible in WPF is similar or identical in Silverlight. If you're not using WPF's 3D graphics or any of the other features, you may be able to get an easy port of the XAML, at least.