[ironkid]

Hey guys, this is my first post and I'm going to need your help.

I just assembled today my first xbmc box. Just for the record, please be patient, I'm a complete newbie.

This is the hardware:

MB --> Asrock E350M1/USB3
HD --> Kingston SSDNow 16GB
RAM--> 2x 2GB Kingston DDR3 1066
No other HD, I just want to connect it to an unRAID server.

The assembly was easy and so was the install. I downloaded the latest version from the webpage, flash it to a pendrive and that's about it. No issues.

The problems started when I switched it on. Everything loads apparently fine, and very quickly. I haven't measured it, but I reckon about 30sec.

However, once is fully loaded, the performance is very poor. The menus are very slow and laggish. Every time I move the mouse or use the keyboard I have to wait around two secs to see the screen reacting. It's like I was running a very hungry OS in an old pc.

I haven't done anything else, nor I'd know where to start...

Can you give me some advise

[Hudson_Hawk04]

what skin are you using? try confluence (default skin) and see if performance improves, check to make sure drivers are current also a debug log wouldn't hurt.

[jhsrennie]

That sounds like the behaviour if the OpenGL isn't hardware accelerated. This would be down to the video drivers. What video card are you using?

JR

[wsnipex]

E350 is AMD Zacate I guess.

take a look here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=99154&page=40

[ironkid]

i never got to reply to this one, so just in case anyone is having the same issue.

It was an issue with the AMD Zacate, as wsnipex pointed out. I couldn't get it sorted and decided to install xbmc on top of win 7. I set up xbmc as shell so i don't get the desktop although I still have to see the anoying win7 log in/log out screens. Speed is not an issue though, I have an SSD drive and the win7 install is quite naked, so it takes just about 15-20 secs to boot up, which is quite impressive!

It wasn't what I wanted (kind of appliance box), but considering I'm pretty new at linux and a poweruser with windows, I think it was the right decision.