yarjar
May 5th, 2011, 12:25 AM
Hi,
With the release of 11.04 I decided to do an entirely fresh install of Kubuntu (first time in a few years). It was a very smooth install and everything works nicely, but the performance is disappointing. My PC is a few years old but it's still quite decent - AMD dual core processor, nVidia 9600 GT graphics card. I installed the nVidia driver and got it working properly, as well as turning off VSync via a suggestion I found, but performance is still disappointing.
There's no major issue, just a lot of small things - for example, clicking on the application launcher in the corner takes a full second for it to appear. The window minimizing effect is choppy. Window maximizing is noticeably bad: the title bar appears first, followed by the rest of the window a second later. Firefox 4 is slow as well, it takes at least a second each to switch between tabs. It's all quite usable but doesn't feel as snappy as it should. Any ways to tweak performance or find out what might be wrong?
With the release of 11.04 I decided to do an entirely fresh install of Kubuntu (first time in a few years). It was a very smooth install and everything works nicely, but the performance is disappointing. My PC is a few years old but it's still quite decent - AMD dual core processor, nVidia 9600 GT graphics card. I installed the nVidia driver and got it working properly, as well as turning off VSync via a suggestion I found, but performance is still disappointing.
There's no major issue, just a lot of small things - for example, clicking on the application launcher in the corner takes a full second for it to appear. The window minimizing effect is choppy. Window maximizing is noticeably bad: the title bar appears first, followed by the rest of the window a second later. Firefox 4 is slow as well, it takes at least a second each to switch between tabs. It's all quite usable but doesn't feel as snappy as it should. Any ways to tweak performance or find out what might be wrong?