176940 - When using the latest nvidia drivers with nview enabled, changing between mozilla windows is very slow

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 174238

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Lassi Pentikäinen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910

Latest nvidia drivers support multiple monitors and virtual desktops (among
other useful things), and when these drivers hit the "stable" stage, many people
will be using these. The only problen I encountered with these drivers is with
mozilla: changing between mozilla windows (including mail/news-window) is very
slow when nview is in use. There is about 3-5 second pause when swapping windows
in my system, which is P4 2,4Ghz with 512MB RAM.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. enable nview with the latest detonator drivers (beta)
2. open 2 mozilla windows with web page open
3. swap windows by clicking the taskbar

Actual Results:  
3-5 second pause, then open the window normally

Expected Results:  
open the window in 2.4 nanoseconds :-)

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

What if you lower the hardware acceleration from "highest" to "next to highest"
setting?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Mail from reporter:

It doesn't help. Even if the hardware acceleration is at minimum, the
problem still exists.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Mail from reporter:

I updated my Nvidia detonator drivers to the latest testing-beta
drivers, that are not even found from the nvidia.com yet, but
distributed elsewhere at some 3d-sites. Anyway, the problems with
Mozilla are totally gone with nview and these drivers, which are newer
than the drivers which didn't work with Mozilla too well. Therefore it
seems that the problem - whatever it is - is with Nvidia's drivers and
not Mozilla at all. Since the problem doesn't appear with the newest
beta drivers, it propably won't be in the next official release either.


Lassi Pentik?inen, a happy Mozilla user. :-)

Comment 4

[snackmaster]

I have experienced this exact bug with Mozilla 1.0, Netscape 7.0 and now with
Mozilla 1.2. Lastest Nvidia drivers help, uninstalling them and running
Microsoft drivers fixes the issue.

I installed the latest drivers version 40.72 (11/11 I believe) and while the
problem has improved (perhaps Nvidia is aware of the issue?) it still is bad
with jerky mouse and machine lags during any browser action. Better than the
previous driver version 30.82 but still enough to make me use IE. Problem exists
in my current Mozilla 1.2 and Netscape 7.0. 

I can solve the issue by uninstalling NVIDIA drivers and running Microsoft's OEM
driver. This allowed Netscape and Mozilla to perform as normal, but this
disables all aspects of the card needed to play games and enjoy other visual
deliciousness.

Win2K Pro SP3, 32meg NVIDIA Riva TNT2 Pro, 500megs of ram (238 free at the
moment), 1.4ghz Athalon, 28gigs free disk space.

Comment 5

[Jari Ahonen]

I'm seeing the same behaviour as in comment #4 with nVIDIA drivers version 40.72.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021201.
Win2000 SP3, nVIDIA RIVA TNT2 with 32MB video memory, PIII 500MHz, 256MB RAM.

Using Mozilla with the nVIDIA drivers is unbearable. All screen rendering is
very jerky and sluggish. Reverting to the Microsoft OEM drivers solves the problem.

Comment 6

[Lassi Pentikäinen]

The bug doesn't seem to exist with the latest nvidia detonator drivers (41.09)
released 5.12.2002.

Comment 7

[snackmaster]

I've installed the latest (12/21/2002) TNT from drivers the NVIDIA site
(4.1.0.9) and the bug is still there, much improved but still not smooth. I had
to knock hardware acceleration down yet again. 

Comment 8

[Chris Lyon]

*** Bug 194959 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Gavin Sinclair]

Windows update site is now promoting the 4.0.7.2 drivers when updating XP
systems. I don't have multiple monitors or desktops but they made mozilla almost
unusable (switching with alt-tab or window menu was fine - but motor memory has
me going down to the taskbar most of the time)

I find the 4.1.0.9 driver works absolutely fine. But it is not
microsoft-endorsed and needs to be downloaded from
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

Comment 10

[Jason M. Abels]

If it works in a new driver, then the problem was in the driver, and not
mozilla. Even if the driver isn't MS endorsed.

Please try with latest driver and mozilla nightly to see if it works.

Comment 11

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 174238 ***