{"id":2295,"date":"2022-08-30T15:23:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/01\/05\/nvidia-drivers-in-xorg-kde-performance-and-stability-for-different-cards-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/"},"modified":"2022-08-30T15:23:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:23:40","slug":"nvidia-drivers-in-xorg-kde-performance-and-stability-for-different-cards-collection-of-common-programming-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2022\/08\/30\/nvidia-drivers-in-xorg-kde-performance-and-stability-for-different-cards-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"nVidia drivers in Xorg \/ KDE – performance and stability for different cards-Collection of common programming errors"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a GeForce 250 GTS card and I am using the proprietary drivers in Linux (KDE on Debian Testing). Unfortunately recently I had a lot of issues with stability and performance – I had quite a few system crashes and the performance is appalling. There are various workarounds, but they don’t always work and some of them help with one application, but make another one worse…<\/p>\n

I was planning to upgrade my GPU anyway, hence the question – is the situation better on newer GPUs? Or should I move to a Radeon instead? I might have an opportunity to join a CUDA project in a couple of months, but it doesn’t really matter if I can’t use my desktop…<\/p>\n

I need a reasonable graphics card for some gaming in Windows, but in Linux I am just using basic KDE and Gnome applications, Iceweasel (Firefox), Chrome, GIMP, etc. so nothing fancy really.<\/p>\n

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    I had no problems with the proprietary drivers on my previous FX 8600GT nor on my recently acquired GT430. Sometimes there are small problems, but nothing serious for me. I do some gaming on Linux, plus a couple of games with Wine, I have a lot of effects in KDE enabled and I use 1920×1080 resolution on my desktop.<\/p>\n

    As far as graphics performance goes on Linux I consider NVidia with their proprietary drivers buy far the best combination. I am also doing a little CUDA lately and it works great.<\/p>\n

    Also there is no real hardware video decoding on any of the other alternatives. ATI\/AMD has the capability on hardware, but there is still no reliable support in the drivers or in the video players. NVidia’s VDPAU became in the past couple of years a kind of unofficial standard in this field.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Originally posted 2014-01-05 09:58:02. <\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I have a GeForce 250 GTS card and I am using the proprietary drivers in Linux (KDE on Debian Testing). Unfortunately recently I had a lot of issues with stability and performance – I had quite a few system crashes and the performance is appalling. There are various workarounds, but they don’t always work and […]<\/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-2295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295","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=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}