On Tuesday 02 September 2008 17:38:01 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Roy Wright wrote: > >> On the negative side, the nvidia binary drivers still have major > >> performance issues with KDE4. This is a show stopper for me. > > > > I'd just thought I'd let everyone know there has been good progress > > here. Using the latest beta drivers (177.70) and with the settings from: > > > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5191733.html#5191733 > > > > KDE 4.1 performance (including eye candy) on my 8600 GTS is now > > acceptable. > > Thanks for the tip Roy, I will give it a another shot. :)
I'm using 177.70 on a 8600m GT here, and still running into stability issues (random crashes, X stops responding for 10 seconds and sometimes for ever). However, performance is a lot better - far from perfect, but useable. The one settings that is absolutely required is nvidia-settings -a InitialPixmapPlacement=2 Without it, scrolling any screen in Konqueror that's wide enough to need a horizontal scrollbar is interminably slow. With it, it's almost as fast as normal. Akregator with lots of articles in a feed is still deathly slow no matter what settings i fiddle with. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
