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I am planning on buying an ATV2 but would like to know from others how well it runs with certain skins like Aeon MQ 2, Alaska, etc? I have the old ATV and am using a stripped down version of Alaska but would love to use the full featured version of all the new skins that are out. Are there any slowdowns at all when navigating or is everything pretty smooth and responsive. This is one major deciding factor for me that will help me make the choice on whether or not to get the new ATV2.
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With the official update out now, and on the nightlys, everything is runn quite smooth for me. I have tried both alaska skins, aeon, and all of the built in ones. Looking good. And coming from an original atv myself. Its a VERY welcomed improvement. I have not even tried one of the stripped down skins its been working so well.
I run my data off of a mysql setup, so not sure just how much it has to do with the following - thumb browsing and displaying is much faster as well. Before you'd have to 2-3 seconds after being on a file for the thumbnails to totally catch up, not anymore.
If you're using custom or a big bunch of plugins you may see some issues still.
But at any rate, it runs cooler, takes less power, upgraded functionality on the box itself, and its only $99. You can probably sell your current one for atleast half that online.
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I think we need to clarify here. The UI is not smooth, but it is responsive. The UI runs at about 10 to 15 fps, but it responds exactly as you would expect. It would be nice if the UI ran at a higher framerate, but it's more than adequate. So smooth is the wrong term; responsive is the right way to describe it.
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2011-02-08, 07:48
(This post was last modified: 2011-02-08, 09:36 by mikef.)
Comparing the speed to my ION330HT the GUI is definitely not smooth. It is usable and responsive but has this choppy feel. (it's like when you play game on 15fps compare to 30fps)
Obviously the A4 on ATV2 doesn't have enough grunt to handle GUI smoothly.
Not sure if GUI can be GPU accelerated.
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I just changed to Alaska Revised - running really nice!
Try it yourself, for me it is the best skin for atv2 so far..
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keith
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A great idea for a thread is one that lists all the skins in categories of:
working
not working
needs work
Then you put comments on every skin. Bonus points if you make both an ATV2 section and a iOS section, also should test them all with the same build and list the info, so anytime a new build comes out and theres various skin issues they can referred to that thread, also to help the skin devs.