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nikchris

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From: Athens - Greece

Registered: 2008-04-10

Posts: 24

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bad nvidia performance

i have this problem with my graphics. They are choppy, especially when minimizing or maximizng.

I can see some instant artifacts when browsing picture folders or when openning the application launcher on my KDE.

What settings should i apply to correct this?

I have an onboard 8200 and my xorg is this:

Section "Files"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier    "Default Layout"
    Screen        "Default Screen"
    InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
    InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver        "kbd"
    Option        "CoreKeyboard"
    Option        "XkbRules"            "xorg"
    Option        "XkbModel"            "pc105"
    Option         "XkbLayout"            "us,gr"
    Option         "XkbOptions"            "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle,lv3:ralt_switch,eurosign:e"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "Configured Mouse"
    Driver        "mouse"
    Option        "CorePointer"
    Option        "Device"            "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "Protocol"            "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping"            "4 5"
    Option        "Emulate3Buttons"        "true"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load        "dbe"
    Load        "freetype"
    Load        "glx"
    SubSection      "extmod"
                Option                "omit xfree86-dga"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "My Graphics Card"
    Driver        "nvidia"
#    Option        "DynamicTwinView"        "false"
    Option         "RenderAccel"             "true"
    Option         "CursorShadow"             "true"
    Option         "HWCursor"             "true"
    Option         "TripleBuffer"             "true"
#    Option         "ConnectedMonitor"         "DFP"
#    Option         "ConnectedMonitor"         "CRT"
    Option      "InitialPixmapPlacement"     "2"
    Option      "GlyphCache"                    "1"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
        Option          "Composite"               "enable"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier    "My Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS"                 "True"
    Option         "DPI"               "96 x 96"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Default Screen"
    Device        "My Graphics Card"
    Monitor        "My Monitor"
    Option        "UseEvents"            "true"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth        24
        Modes        "1280x1024"
        Viewport    0 0
    EndSubSection
    Option        "AddARGBGLXVisuals"        "true"
#    Option         "PixmapCacheSize"         "1000000"
#    Option         "AllowSHMPixmaps"         "0"
EndSection

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Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,549

Re: bad nvidia performance

KDE 4?

If so:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE … phics_card
http://userbase.kde.org/GPU-Performance

Pierre

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From: Bonn

Registered: 2004-07-05

Posts: 1,964

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Re: bad nvidia performance

Try the 180.xx drivers (still in beta state).

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