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CatsCanFly

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Registered: 2014-07-02

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Slow scrolling and some other animations in Gnome 3 using Nvidia

Hello, arch community! I have one annoying problem: In gnome 3 (3.12.1) I have a intermittent animations of trivially actions, especially scrolling web pages in firefox (looks like it have 15-20 fps) and moving windows on screen. In Openbox, for example, this problem is absent (And in Windows 7 too xD). The most strange is that the appearance of this effect looks randomly - when I start browser, all are going normal for few minutes, for example. I think my hardware is too powerfull to use gnome 3: Intel Core i5 3.4Ghz, 8Gb RAM, Nvidia Geforce GTX660Ti (proprietary driver 337.25). CPU and RAM usage doesn't seems to be very large. Could you help me to unserstand and solve this problem? And sorry for my English if I made many mistakes - It isn't my native language. Thank you for your advices!

supermariolinux

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Registered: 2014-01-21

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Re: Slow scrolling and some other animations in Gnome 3 using Nvidia

Try using Alt+F2 and entering just r for the command, gnome-shell will restart, do the animations improve? I believe i have the same issue, i notice the higher the RAM usage of gnome-shell the choppier the animations, restarting it almost always drops the usage and the animations go back to normal. I think this may be a bug with either nvidia's drivers or gnome-shell, possibly both of them.

CatsCanFly

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Registered: 2014-07-02

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Re: Slow scrolling and some other animations in Gnome 3 using Nvidia

Try using Alt+F2 and entering just r for the command, gnome-shell will restart, do the animations improve? I believe i have the same issue, i notice the higher the RAM usage of gnome-shell the choppier the animations, restarting it almost always drops the usage and the animations go back to normal. I think this may be a bug with either nvidia's drivers or gnome-shell, possibly both of them.

Yes, this seems to work for few minutes, but then freezes start again. I think it isn't good solution for this problem to restart gnome-shell many times a day:(

Last edited by CatsCanFly (2014-07-03 17:29:08)

clfarron4

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Re: Slow scrolling and some other animations in Gnome 3 using Nvidia

To both of you: Is there anything untoward in the system journal or the Xorg logs?

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CatsCanFly

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Re: Slow scrolling and some other animations in Gnome 3 using Nvidia

I have watched Xorg.0.log, but there are no errors specified.

omer666

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Re: Slow scrolling and some other animations in Gnome 3 using Nvidia

This looks like the well-known repaint bug with nVidia 334.x drivers (and later) on GNOME.
See:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=178024
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/39371
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728464
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topi … 2-gtx-580/

We are waiting for nvidia to fix things.
I just posted on the devtalk.nvidia thread in order to get more information on this subject.

[Edit] If you want Firefox to be quite usable in the mean time, turn hardware acceleration on or enable smooth scrolling...

Last edited by omer666 (2014-07-05 13:15:00)

CatsCanFly

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Re: Slow scrolling and some other animations in Gnome 3 using Nvidia

omer666, Thank you for the information about this bug. Seems I've fixed problem with firefox by disabling hardware acceleration in the standart firefox settings menu.