His card is fast enough, the problem might be the memmory on the card, it is shared with rest of the system, and thus is not a dedicated set of ram-chips.
Because these chips are on the other side of the agp-bus, performance might take a hit if the textures are really big. Are you using a large (as in MB's) desktop wallpaper? Try removing it, and just using an opaque background color. That might help a lot. Offcourse testing with a speedier, card with onboard ram would also prove this. -- poor desktop performance on compiz https://launchpad.net/bugs/46119 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
