KDE4 slow

[Iñaki Baz Castillo]

El Jueves, 25 de Junio de 2009, Michael Pyne escribió:
> On Wednesday 24 June 2009 21:12:23 Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> > The fact is that dissabling composite (nvidia driver) the speed is really
> > similar.
> >
> > So, do you think I need a better computer for KDE4? The fact is that I'll
> > buy a new one :), but I really expected that 1 GB RAM and CPU 1600 MHz
> > (dual core) was enough for "using" KDE4 with just a few apps open
> > (Konqueror, Kopete, Kontact and Yakuake plus KDE4 core daemons).
>
> You don't need a better computer, you need better video drivers.  KDE 4's
> compositing support relies on features of graphics cards that are not often
> used by games or other 3D software.  Therefore the driver support for these
> features is generally poor.  Older mobile Intel chipset for laptops and
> such work nicely in my experience.  In theory older Radeon cards are good
> as well (r300 series or lower!)  I have a r500 card and the graphics work
> but compositing is unbearably slow (and it wasn't better when I had nvidia
> either).
>
> In short, you just need to wait for the video driver support to catch up to
> allow compositing to work smoothly.

Well, as I say I feel the same feeling dissabing composite :(


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Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc at aliax.net>