Why are my Nvidia drivers on Linux so fucking laggy compared

nvidia doesn't care about linux

nouveau is open source and nvidia is proprietary

open source > proprietary

Anyone use Nvidia drivers with KDE?

How does it run?

>>62407456
I tried it, runs like shit, like KDE always does.

>>62407681
Why is Nouveau so smooth?

>>62407456
works great with kde 3.5

>>62407681
NVidia drivers make GNOME run like shit too though, it really pisses me off. I have use NV drivers and get good power saving, adaptive power and have slow laggy desktop or use nouveau and have a great smooth desktop but the card is completely fucking crippled.

>>62407456
Like shit
Open source drivers run much more smoothly

>>62407747
lol kde 3.5? who the fuck uses that? we're on kde 5.10.5

>>62407788
>>62407768
Interesting. Thanks for confirming my setup isn't just gimped & that Nvidia drivers just suck ass for desktop acceleration

(Theyre obviously much better than Nouveau for gaming or 3d programs though)

Seems like you have to make a compromise...

>>62407805
It's still being maintained, now called trinity
https://www.trinitydesktop.org/about.php
comfier than any newer DE if you ask me, not to mention lighter.

>>62407346
I've had this problem on Cinnamon. It is DEFINITELY a nVidia problem. Poke around google a bit, I don't know the fix for KDE.

The fix for Cinnamon? Removing the fucking sound applet lmao

>>62407346
novideo fucks everything up desu
if I have any opengl window open or a youtube video playing suddenly dragging windows becomes lag city
Seems like it does something fucky to maximize any hardware accelerated stuff and throttles anything else

>>62407346
>Nvidia
You fell for the meme

>>62407346
Lads, how am I supposed to program for cuda if windows is shit for programming and linux has shit nvidia drivers?

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A bit offtopic but
>tfw you have RX480 and nonfree Debian works perfectly with it
No Nvidia for this guy anymore.

>>62407346
>novideo
HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH look at him and laugh

>>62408289
>tfw you were the butt of jokes for having to use fglrx on linux for years but now the tables have turned

>>62408289
pls no bully, but how are games performing for you on linux? Source games/other shooters in particular.

>>62408641
Actually I just installed it a few days ago and haven't really played anything yet. I installed Steam and Shadow of Mordor from there because it was listed as working in Linux. I only tested that game for a few minutes but it worked perfectly. Blizzard games have been too tricky for me yet, I'm still researching it from Youtube and so on. I don't have any more convincing data to give you as I haven't tried gaming yet.

>>62407346
Because Linux is not a real operating system.

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op here;
its tragic that putting in my old 6950 1gb would work better on desktop performance vs Nvidia on KDE

whats up with that shit?

>>62408729
Fair enough. I keep hearing that ayymd doesn't work with a lot of games. But I also can't stand nvidia.

>>62408852
>novidea
Found your problem

>>62408896

I can play all of the valve games on my ancient HD5670 witht he open-source drivers. I am having some troubles with newer stuff though, because the card is so old and some shaders won't compile correctly.

>>62407747
Another KDE3 masterrace report in!

>>62407388
>open source > proprietary
For ayymd. Team green have better proprietary driver but kernel updates can screw up the whole system.

>>62408896
Nearly every game works perfectly with mesa 17.2.
Only games that I haven't been able to run so far were Divinity: Original Sin and Dying Light.

>>62409386
>Only games that I haven't been able to run so far were Divinity: Original Sin and Dying Light.
Are they working to fix this? Or does this depend on the devs of those games, in which case I wouldn't hold my breath.

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>>62407346
>Why are my XYZ drivers on linux so fucking..
>Laggy
>Not updated
>Chrashes the machine
>Conspicuously missing altogether

You got the lesser of all linux-support evils. Why complain?