rcrowell74 wrote: > One other major difference is that my old laptop had an NVidia graphics card > (don't remember which one) and the new one has an ATI Mobility Radeon HD > 3670. I'm using the proprietary video drivers in both cases, from RPM Fusion. > > So the two major differences that I can see are the video card and the 64-bit > versus 32-bit operating systems.
The only thing that pops in my mind is that maybe you installed the 32-bit version of the ATI driver, so there are A LOT of switches between 32 and 64 bit modes, that take quite a lot of time. You could try using the open driver in 64-bit mode, maybe it's faster... BYtE, Diego.
