Nicholas, In my experience, the NVIDIA driver is the most CPU-hungry of all the graphics drivers. So that won't help.
I have similar performance problems on a very slow machine (not using NVIDIA). On that system, I use this to speed up the rendering: CCSM > Workarounds > Force full screen redraw (buffer swap) on repaint = ON However that's not ideal. We will be delivering a better performance boost in compiz 0.9.8.0 when Ubuntu 12.10 is released. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/964818 Title: Unity works slow on not top computers (needs optimization) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/964818/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
