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flyingfisch
January 5th, 2012, 03:10 PM
GNOME 3 is extremely slow for me. My hardware specs are:

RAM: 512MB
Graphics: nVidia GeForce 5200
Processor: 2Ghz

I have the 173 nVidia drivers installed. What should I do/upgrade to make GNOME shell work?
3Miro
January 5th, 2012, 04:57 PM
Is this a laptop? You need the proprietary Nvidia drivers, however, if this is a laptop, then you have Nvidia Optimus and that is really bad news.

If this is a desktop, then going to Additional Drivers and installing the Nvidia proprietary driver should do the trick.
ubiquitin.jf
January 5th, 2012, 05:54 PM
Whilst there are no official minimum system requirements published for gnome-shell, I suspect that it is not intended to run on a system with 512MB RAM. I suggest you try XFCE or LXDE instead.
flyingfisch
January 5th, 2012, 06:57 PM
I am using XFCE right now. Should I upgrade my RAM, then?
ubiquitin.jf
January 5th, 2012, 08:24 PM
That would be the best course of action if you really would prefer Gnome 3 to XFCE.
hhh
January 5th, 2012, 09:43 PM
The Fedora Project website is stating that 768MBs of RAM are needed to run gnome-shell, with 1G recommended for best performance...
http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora

Also, I run gnome-shell 3.2 (from Debian unstable) on 1G RAM with a low-end Nvidia card (6150LE) and the animations are slightly choppy, I'd expect that to be the same with your card even if you do increase your RAM.