2009-02-22, 03:45
wookietv Wrote:hi- i just started using ubuntu a few weeks ago, with the end goal in making it a media center. so i was recommended to try xbmc, and i got it loaded up fine. the problem i'm having is that it runs very slow. and i'm not talking about videos, music, etc... i'm just talking about the app. the mouse stutters across the application, on the main page, the scrolling news item does not come out smoothly, but also stutters a bit each second.Hi There :-)
once i leave the xbmc window, the mouse is smooth in the linux o.s.
is there something i should know, or a setting i need to do to get this working properly?
Sounds as though you're having video card driver issues. I have an ATI 4870x2 and was experiencing the same issues as yourself until I enabled the proprietary ATI drivers specific to my card... now it's beautifully smooth
Something else worth mentioning is that XBMC playback is infinitely superior to any other video playback application in Ubuntu (Iin my humble opinion anyway)
Hope this is of some help!