Just a friendly note of warning to all of the NVIDIA users out there
who have upgraded to use version 8174 of the NVIDIA driver that you could
be using a lot more CPU than with earlier driver versions.
It has been reported by a few people (myself included) that
using OpenGL Vsync with 8174
Greg Estabrooks wrote:
Just a friendly note of warning to all of the NVIDIA users out there
who have upgraded to use version 8174 of the NVIDIA driver that you could
be using a lot more CPU than with earlier driver versions.
Did you try messing with the various sync-to-vblank settings in
Did you try messing with the various sync-to-vblank settings in the
nvidia-settings program? IIRC there are two: one for video, one for
OpenGL.
Yeah, in my tests neither seemed to have an effect., but turning off GL sync
or going back to 7676 both did the trick.
Yeah, in my tests neither seemed to have an effect., but turning off GL sync
or going back to 7676 both did the trick.
I should be more clear, when I disable GL Sync usage in myth it clears up :)
Changes in nvidia-settings didn't affect the CPU usage
