KDE performance with nvidia card

Barghest · 2010-06-30 08:47:21

Hi,

I've seen several threads about issues with kwins performance under nvidia cards.

Since I also have sluggish performance (opening the menu is laggy, maximizing windows and switching between them, too...) with my 7600GT (AGP) and the current driver 256.35 (also with older versions) I read the threads but I still don't know if it's just my old system that can't work with kwin. But than again, compiz works like a charm so is there anything I can do for a smooth KDE experience?

Currently I have just this configuration:

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf
Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Default nvidia Device"
        Driver  "nvidia"
EndSection

TIA for your help

bananaoomarang · 2010-06-30 09:54:52

Try looking here:

http://techbase.kde.org/User:Lemma/KDE4-NVIDIA

Barghest · 2010-06-30 10:00:06

Thanks for the link, but playing around with InitialPixmapPlacement and GlyphCache made it even worse

bananaoomarang · 2010-06-30 12:14:40

HAve you tried Initial pixmap placement 3 and 1 as well? Also have you tried adding those options for the device section of xorg.conf? I also have to ask whether you have carefully follwoed the instructions here:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA

If you have then my ideas are very limited as the driver is a proprietary binary blob and so I can only suggest complaining to nvidia about it.

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#1 2010-06-30 08:47:21

KDE performance with nvidia card

#2 2010-06-30 09:54:52

Re: KDE performance with nvidia card

#3 2010-06-30 10:00:06

Re: KDE performance with nvidia card

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Re: KDE performance with nvidia card

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