{"id":2236,"date":"2022-08-30T15:23:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/01\/05\/compiz-slow-under-proprietary-nvidia-driver-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/"},"modified":"2022-08-30T15:23:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:23:11","slug":"compiz-slow-under-proprietary-nvidia-driver-collection-of-common-programming-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2022\/08\/30\/compiz-slow-under-proprietary-nvidia-driver-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Compiz slow under proprietary nvidia driver-Collection of common programming errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am using Ubuntu 10.10 and have problem with proprietary nvidia driver for my GeForce GTS 250. I have issue with <strong>poor Compiz<\/strong> performance. And there is also open-source &#8220;noueau&#8221; driver.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Proprietary:<\/strong> I tried many versions but neither works fast <strong>on desktop<\/strong>. This means <strong>30 FPS<\/strong> without heavy effects. Currently I am using version <code>270.18<\/code>. Even normal desktop use feels bad (moving windows) <strong>In games<\/strong> (and 3D benchmark) it is <strong>really good<\/strong>! (Unigine Heaven works good!)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Open-source &#8220;nouveau&#8221;<\/strong>: Very fast on desktop with heavy effects (blur, &#8230;). I have <strong>300 FPS<\/strong> and more, even in <em>Expo<\/em> mode. Games were good but not as good as prop. And driver causes xorg to crash even the latest (<code>ppa:xorg-edgers\/nouveau<\/code>), so I switched back to proprietary.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I also have computer with Ubuntu 10.04, GeForce 8600GT and drivers around <code>185.x<\/code> and Compiz works great there.<\/p>\n<p>There is similar question Nvidia proprietary driver performance in 10.10<\/p>\n<p>Which <strong>version of nvidia (prop) driver is fast in Compiz<\/strong> in Ubuntu 10.10? How do you install a specific version of nvidia driver? Is it the case that each newer driver works slower on compiz?<\/p>\n<p><em>edit:<\/em> I tested 8600GT and GTS250 on Ubuntu 10.04 under 197.x.x drivers. Performance in Compiz and games are great! So Ubuntu 10.10 with 260.x.x or newer driver is not good for Compiz?<\/p>\n<p id=\"rop\"><small>Originally posted 2014-01-05 09:21:32. <\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am using Ubuntu 10.10 and have problem with proprietary nvidia driver for my GeForce GTS 250. I have issue with poor Compiz performance. And there is also open-source &#8220;noueau&#8221; driver. Proprietary: I tried many versions but neither works fast on desktop. This means 30 FPS without heavy effects. Currently I am using version 270.18. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}