GF8200 / Poor 2D performance / ETA of fix?

[apaige]

Wow, fullscreen flash (even HD) is now smooth as silk. Great release.

[motd2k]

Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou! Perfect now.

[zim2dive]

Initial tests on my end look good! (will give it a more thorough test over the weekend)

Great to finally have a fully working linux box!!!

Thanks for the update nVidia!

[zim2dive]

Finally had some time for testing 180.29..

what kind of CPU % #'s do you guys get with other GPUs?

Playing full-screen, 1920x1080, Firefox, Flash 10.0.15, at thedailyshow.com, full episodes, I see

Firefox bounce from 80-125% (dual core 2.7 GHz Athlon 5200+)
Xorg pretty steady at 30%

I've set Flash to "Low Quality" via the settings.

Now granted, even this was impossible before 180.29.. just wondering if 180.29 really get us 8200 folks up to par where we can convincingly point to Adobe (and not nvidia) as the source of the performance issues.

EDIT: also tested with http://www.hulu.com/watch/54458/lege...ice#s-p1-so-i0 tried at "hi-res" 480p (again, at full-screen).... lots of what I think folks call "tearing" (a term I never had to use before ) Firefox is ~140%, Xorg near 0.

[atteism]

Just upgraded to 180.29, very nice performance, thank you nVidia!

Noticed one very annoying thing though: gnome-terminal is not updated (re-drawn) as often as it should be. Only about half of times after an "ls" command for example. Is there a work-around for this problem or should I wait for the next release of the driver?

Kind regards,
Atteism

[McNihil]

Originally Posted by AaronP

Please try 180.29.

Ah yes we are rockin! I had lost confidence in the driver since the 96.x days. Great work, my customers will be ecstatic.

[s2006]

Originally Posted by atteism

Just upgraded to 180.29, very nice performance, thank you nVidia!

Noticed one very annoying thing though: gnome-terminal is not updated (re-drawn) as often as it should be. Only about half of times after an "ls" command for example. Is there a work-around for this problem or should I wait for the next release of the driver?

Kind regards,
Atteism

+1

[Tuomaz]

Originally Posted by atteism

Just upgraded to 180.29, very nice performance, thank you nVidia!

Noticed one very annoying thing though: gnome-terminal is not updated (re-drawn) as often as it should be. Only about half of times after an "ls" command for example. Is there a work-around for this problem or should I wait for the next release of the driver?

Kind regards,
Atteism

I've got the same problem too.

[SaintMantooth]

FINALLY! This solved the HORRIBLE video playback performance I was getting with 180.22. Thanks for the good work guys! If anyone cares, I'm using the 8200M in my Compaq CQ50 running Intrepid and everything seems to be working pretty good now.

[Tuomaz]

Possible regression: on Ubuntu 9.04 and NVIDIA driver version 185.18.04 Flash video plays terrible slow and "nvidia-settings -q BusRate" return a blank line on my 8300.