[mythtv-users] Slow myth TV user interface on a fast machine

[Todd]

"Alex Halovanic" <halovanic at gmail.com> writes:

> Paul,
> You will have terrible performance with the free nv driver and the
> menus if they're being drawn with the default OpenGL painter as it's
> basically trying to emulate 3D hardware using only software.  Have you
> tried my suggestion of changing the 'Paint Engine' to QT in the
> Setup->Appearance menu and restarting the frontend?  That's generally
> far snappier, since basically all the OpenGL does is allow for fading
> effects in the menus.

I'll toss in my experience with the free nv driver with respect to
this setting.  Even with Qt selected, performance was abyssmal, awful, 
horrible and frustrating.   Despite the AMD A64 3500+ with 1GB RAM. 

Nvidia's own drivers though fixed it.