I have this problem too. Not sure how 'fast' my machine is (athlon 64 3800, single core) but the menus are definitely slow:<br><br>from choosing "Watch Recordings" to actually having the Watch Recordings screen fully drawn - 3-4s
<br>from program group to individual program list - 1-2s<br>scrolling up or down an item in the list - 1-2s<br>from choosing Delete to the Are you sure? dialog being fully displayed - 3-4s (I get the empty box after 2s then the words)
<br><br>That's pretty consistent regardless of what I've been doing i.e. I don't have Todd's problem where it's only slow after playback. It's also annoying because the remote is more responsive than the UI, so for example I often hit right to go from the program group to program list and end up in the program menu for the first program in the list (
i.e. right x2) because I'm sub-consciously holding down the remote button until I see the screen change. <br><br>My graphics card is an on-board NVidia 6150 LE. It wasn't my first choice, when I bought the machine it had a more powerful ATI card which I could never get fully working with the Linux drivers. I gave up, sold it on ebay and switched to the onboard card. Which, using the 'nv' driver has been fine. It'll play full-screen video at 1280x768 (which is the highest resolution my TV with do) smoothly. Since I'm using it for SD (Freeview in the UK) that's more than I need.
<br><br>I've tried and failed to get the nividia driver to work properly. Inspired by recent messages here I tried again this weekend, spent a total of about 10 hours on it, googling, searching the wiki, various forums, tried several "this worked for me" solutions but I always have tearing when playing back video. The menus sure are zippy and responsive though.
<br><br>So to sum up - the choice for me is between fast menus and video tearing with the nvidia driver, and sluggish menus and perfect video with nv - so I'm back to the nv driver.<br><br>I find this extremely odd, that drawing a dialog box with text in it requires hardware acceleration but playing video is fine. There's probably a good reason why it's not that simple but that's the high-level view.
<br><br>A further point - my laptop which I sometimes use as a frontend has a GeForce Go 7600 and that works flawlessly with the nvidia driver. Zippy menus and smooth video. Which got me wondering - if I bought a better graphics card is there a chance it'll work, or might it be related to the software and other hardware? I kind of resent spending money when my current card is clearly capable of what I need, but then compared to hours of my free time maybe it's worth it.
<br><br>The other thing I might do is have a delve in the code. I'm not a C++ programmer but maybe I can figure something out. Maybe have some kind of alternate simpler interface for the Watch Recordings screen. What do you think?
<br><br>-- <br>Paul Mason