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afader

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Registered: 2013-09-12

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[SOLVED] Gnome mutter stutter with nvidia 390 driver

I use mutter-781835-workaround to fix the problems with the nvidia driver screen tearing.

With the latest nvidia 390 on the 4.15 kernel, the high CPU use problem is back. I can't revert to the 387 driver as it won't install properly on the latest kernel.

Anyone know which project I should report this to - gnome or nvidia? Is there a reason why this driver is so difficult? It seems that every other version has a performance regression. This configuration with my card is at least 5 years old, why does this break so easily?

Solved in 390.42

Last edited by afader (2018-03-21 01:16:15)

hussam

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome mutter stutter with nvidia 390 driver

Report it to NVIDIA. There are known issues with the 390 driver including periodic flicker on automatic clock scaling.