Much Smoother Web Scrolling on MPR 15

[Office Hours]

Here's what I did:

1. Download Chrome Dev Channel, stable may also have these settings, not sure.

2. Go to chrome://flags

3. Enable GPU compositing, Enable Thread Compositing, Enable Per Tile Painting (last one may not be required but I did it.)

4. Restart Chrome.

5. Enjoy.

I have no doubt that it's a software issue. It's not perfect but has a noticeable effect and will only get better. If the iPad 3 can do it, a Ivy Bridge and dGPU can do it.

Update: Most sites work perfectly, much better than Safari. It seems that it chugs on sites that use a lot of newer CSS3 stuff (The Verge), @ native resolution it's a lot better but you can tell it's not perfect either. Performance with advance filters will improve over time I bet.

 

[MrGando]

Was going to post this tomorrow, but you beat me

Cheers.

 

[macNewbie02]

Here's what I did:

1. Download Chrome Dev Channel, stable may also have these settings, not sure.

2. Go to chrome://flags

3. Enable GPU compositing, Enable Thread Compositing, Enable Per Tile Painting (last one may not be required but I did it.)

4. Restart Chrome.

5. Enjoy.

I have no doubt that it's a software issue. It's not perfect but has a noticeable effect and will only get better. If the iPad 3 can do it, a Ivy Bridge and dGPU can do it.

Update: Most sites work perfectly, much better than Safari. It seems that it chugs on sites that use a lot of newer CSS3 stuff (The Verge), @ native resolution it's a lot better but you can tell it's not perfect either. Performance with advance filters will improve over time I bet.

Thanks for the update, good to hear!

How's the infamous facebook working for you?

 

[maddogxx5]

This tweak seems to have disabled two finger back gesture for me. Anyone else?

 

[PCWebbJR]

Here's what I did:

1. Download Chrome Dev Channel, stable may also have these settings, not sure.

2. Go to chrome://flags

3. Enable GPU compositing, Enable Thread Compositing, Enable Per Tile Painting (last one may not be required but I did it.)

4. Restart Chrome.

5. Enjoy.

I have no doubt that it's a software issue. It's not perfect but has a noticeable effect and will only get better. If the iPad 3 can do it, a Ivy Bridge and dGPU can do it.

Update: Most sites work perfectly, much better than Safari. It seems that it chugs on sites that use a lot of newer CSS3 stuff (The Verge), @ native resolution it's a lot better but you can tell it's not perfect either. Performance with advance filters will improve over time I bet.

Can you post a video? I have a rMPB on order and I'd love to see this in action.

 

[Jeffrosproto]

This tweak seems to have disabled two finger back gesture for me. Anyone else?

It seems to be an on and off thing, it'll work for me sometimes, then a second later it won't work. It's worth it, in my opinion, though.

 

[shthap3ns]

Oh man, thank you so much for this. I was avoiding Chrome since it was pretty choppy even with ML DP4. Super smooth now. I noticed the the per-tile setting improves the scrolling on pages with a lot of images.

Does anyone know if these settings eat up more battery life?