kde4 makes PC slowlier ???

[landon kelsey]

what kind of video card do you have???

memory?
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> From: cannewilson at googlemail.com
> To: kde at mail.kde.org
> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 08:17:26 +0100
> Subject: Re: [kde] kde4 makes PC slowlier ???
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> On Sunday 05 October 2008 19:24:46 Carl-Valentin Schmitt wrote:
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>> I have a stink-normal AMD-32-bit System ... ( not 64-Bit )
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>> I configurated KDE4 with all features of animations and so on in its
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>> "control-center".
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>> result is, that PC is damn slowlier than in KDE3 - how comes that ???
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>> when I change then from 1600x1200 to 1280x1024 mode, then it is quicker
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>> again ...
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>> but this should not happen because graphic-card is the same ?
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> Val, it takes a very powerful computer to do all that, and frankly many of us don't have that kind of power yet. Here's what I'd suggest.
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> Stick with 1280x1024. If you can afford to upgrade your graphic card it might pay you to do so, but read a lot first, as there are problems with some NVidia cards.
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> Turn off ALL desktop effects at first, and get used to the speed that your system gives you, so that you know what you are comparing with.
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> Assess the desktop effects for the advantage they can give you and make a list of the ones most likely to be useful.
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> Add desktop effects one at a time so that you can note their effects and disable any that you find to be particularly resource-hungry.
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> Hope that helps
> 
> Anne

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