[svlug] Solved Re: Core2Duo poor performance...

[Michael Robinson]

On Fri, 2014-12-26 at 13:00 -0800, Alison Chaiken wrote:
> Michael Robinson:
> > I'm running Fedora 21.  The video card is an NVIDIA GeFORCE GT 220 PCI
> > Express x16 card.  The LGA 775 processor runs at 1.80 Ghz.  Compared to
> > the 3.06 Ghz Pentium 4 it is replacing, I can't play mpeg4 files in VLC
> > full screen.  I'll get audio but no video, or maybe choppy video in full
> > screen mode.
> 
> Sounds like you're falling back to software-graphics rendering and the
> processor can't keep up.   I don't know why flash would use hardware
> acceleration and VLC wouldn't, but it's possible.     Have a look at
> Nvidia support and see if a problem has been reported for the 3.17
> kernel that F21 is using.     Try downloading some other graphics test
> program that is not flash-based and see how it runs.
> 
> You might also try disabling the proprietary Nvidia driver and see if
> that helps.   Perhaps it simply doesn't work well with 3.17, or VLC is
> somehow hitting a bug.   Binary blobs are so much fun!
> 
> HTH,
> Alison

Reran the latest NVIDIA installer and fixed the problem.  Few if any
video issues now even full screened.  Thank you to everyone who
commented.  Merry Christmas and happy new year to all.