On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 28 August 2008 17:56:37 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > Ben, sorry, my question is OT wrt your message. > > > > Are there indeed good things (I don't mean ruches and flowers) in KDE4 to > > worry about them at all? Reading all those KDE4 reviews I really can not > > understand why KDE4 may be more useful for me rather KDE3. > > Don't even bother trying KDE4 if you have a recent nVidia card. Performance > is atrocious as KDE4 uses acceleration effects in plasma etc that nVidia > didn't account for in their driver, with the results that significant > amounts of rendering are done using a software path (i.e. not in hardware), > which is very slow. > > There also doesn't appear to be any quick fix coming anytime soon.
well, it was mostly fixed with their latest beta drivers.
