1.0-4191 drivers considerably slower than 1.0-3123

[salimfadhley]

I've just downgraded back to to NVidia's previous set of drivers - I'm really disapointed with the 4191 release - it seems to be slow and jerky, poor at loading and pondrous 2d performance.

Could it be that I have been using it with Redhat's new 2.4.18-19.8.0 kernel, or is it just a buggy release?

In any case I have now downgraded to the 3123 kernel and things seem to have gone back to normal - what a relief!

Sal

[WheelDweller]

I noticed the slowdown, too.

Could it be that you're also running an Athlon board? It's such a problem here that XMMS gets choppy, and it hasn't done that since they added (and I started using) the 'realtime priority' feature in it.

I suspect this is AGP-related. I'm no expert, but I'm thinking that's where to look; it helped a bit on mine.

[salimfadhley]

Thats right,

I noticed this problem with several Athlon and Duron based boards with Geeforce 2 graphics cards in them...

I saw the problem with XMMS, and Mplayer - any 2d intensive application, especially those that use video overlay...

My advice to anybody reading this forum is to wait untill the next release is out - this one is really not worth bothering with.

Sal

[alexycyap]

Me too, can't use Xine anymore since I installed 4191 drivers RPMs on my Mandrake 9.0 desktop. But I don't want to go through the trouble of uninstalling the RPMs unless I really have to.

Any idea when the next (hopefully fixed) version of the drivers will be released?

Thanks.

[crimsun]

The 2D slowdown has been noted by many users, and hopefully it will be resolved in a future driver release. The NVIDIA_Changelog in /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/ has further information regarding this.