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shawger

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Registered: 2008-03-28

Posts: 4

compiz-fusion nvidia jerkyness

Hi - I am new to arch linux, and so far am very impressed.

I installed the nvidia drivers and compiz-fusion as per the instructions on the wiki. Compiz works, but is rather unsmooth. I also have compiz-fusion installed on a old compaq laptop with a ATI mobility 7500 radeon, and it is running very smoothly. This is a new thinkpad with a nVidia 570m graphics card.

Glxgears gives me ~5200fps, so I definitely have 3D acceleration enabled. Is there some sort of option I need to enable in xorg.conf?

augegr

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Registered: 2007-10-03

Posts: 36

Re: compiz-fusion nvidia jerkyness

You can also try to use "Loose Binding" in Compiz Options (right click fusion-icon).

shawger

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Registered: 2008-03-28

Posts: 4

Re: compiz-fusion nvidia jerkyness

You can also try to use "Loose Binding" in Compiz Options (right click fusion-icon).

Maybe a small performance improvement. Still not ideal.

NoOneImportant

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From: Deep Southern California

Registered: 2007-02-13

Posts: 178

Re: compiz-fusion nvidia jerkyness

try unloading some of the plugins and setting the texture filtering to fast

praka123

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From: Kerala,India

Registered: 2008-03-04

Posts: 188

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Re: compiz-fusion nvidia jerkyness

well some nvidia options in xorg.conf may help?
below is mine for a 7300GT

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7300 GT]"
    Driver        "nvidia"
    BusID        "PCI:1:0:0"
    Option          "AddARGBVisuals"        "True"
        Option          "AddARGBGLXVisuals"     "True"
    Option          "TripleBuffer" "True"
        Option          "NoLogo"        "True"
        Option          "UseEdidDpi"   "FALSE"
        Option          "DPI"   "96 x 96"
        Option         "RenderAccel" "True"
        #Option         "UseEvents" "True"

Last edited by praka123 (2008-03-28 06:32:55)

shawger

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Registered: 2008-03-28

Posts: 4

Re: compiz-fusion nvidia jerkyness

Those extra options do not help.

NoOneImportant: I'm using very few plugins anyway. Move, place, decoration, workarounds, minimize, png, regex, fade, core, resize, expo, dbus, switcher, and scale. Setting the texture filter to fast didn't do anything noticeable.