From kde-devel  Sun Jul 13 10:13:15 2008
From: "Grzegorz Kamola" <grzegorz.kamola () gmail ! com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:13:15 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: KDE4 and the nvidia driver
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On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Michael Leupold <lemma@confuego.org> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> so far I've been reluctant to use KDE4 as my main desktop because the
> performance was pretty sloppy due to my nvidia 8600 GTS. Fortunately I've
> stumbled on some instructions on how to improve performance using those cards
> [1]:
> 1) Install the latest nvidia beta driver (currently 177.13)
> 2) Set the following options:
> $ nvidia-settings -a InitialPixmapPlacement=2 -a GlyphCache=1
>

I just want to warn others with card from series 7. I fallowed the
same steps as for cards from series 8 and I experienced serious
problems with high temperature. Responsiveness improved with latest
(not stable) drivers but I wouldn't say it is worth taking risk like
that.

-- 
Grzegorz Kamola
 
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