RogerD
October 27th, 2011, 05:01 PM
Hi
Can anyone tell me what sort of graphics performance is required to run 11.10 in 3D mode?
I've been experimenting with 11.10 on my spare PC, ordinarily I stick to LTS releases, and have been very happy with 10.04.
My spare PC has an Athlon 64 3200+, with 1GB of memory and GeForce 6200 LE/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW! graphics. I've installed the Nvidia drivers, and it does run in 3D, but the windowing performance is terrible - windows take a perceptible time to move across the screen and re-size. Starting in 2D mode solves this problem.
Incidentally, I've noticed a couple of other quirks with 11.10:
1. In 2D mode, the workspaces switcher doesn't work - when I click on the icon in the launcher, only one of the workspaces appears, the other three are just black. Seems to work OK in 3D, but back in 10.04 if you had more than one desktop on the go, the workspace thumbnail, bottom right, actually showed the open applications - a nice feature which seems to be missing with 11.10.
2.When you minimise an open document, it disappears into the parent application icon on the launcher - so if you've more than one document minimised, you can't get at individual documents to re-open them again. Is it me, or is this a major disadvantage.
All help and thoughts welcome.
Roger D
Can anyone tell me what sort of graphics performance is required to run 11.10 in 3D mode?
I've been experimenting with 11.10 on my spare PC, ordinarily I stick to LTS releases, and have been very happy with 10.04.
My spare PC has an Athlon 64 3200+, with 1GB of memory and GeForce 6200 LE/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW! graphics. I've installed the Nvidia drivers, and it does run in 3D, but the windowing performance is terrible - windows take a perceptible time to move across the screen and re-size. Starting in 2D mode solves this problem.
Incidentally, I've noticed a couple of other quirks with 11.10:
1. In 2D mode, the workspaces switcher doesn't work - when I click on the icon in the launcher, only one of the workspaces appears, the other three are just black. Seems to work OK in 3D, but back in 10.04 if you had more than one desktop on the go, the workspace thumbnail, bottom right, actually showed the open applications - a nice feature which seems to be missing with 11.10.
2.When you minimise an open document, it disappears into the parent application icon on the launcher - so if you've more than one document minimised, you can't get at individual documents to re-open them again. Is it me, or is this a major disadvantage.
All help and thoughts welcome.
Roger D