Screen sluggish in Ubuntu 14.04

Question

I have an old assembled PC with

2.6 GHz Intel core2 Duo
4 GB ram and
Nvidia Gforce 7100 GS Graphic card.

I tried to Install Ubuntu 14.04. When I tried it before installing it worked smoothly , however when I installed and ran it, the screen was sluggish from the time of login and the mouse cursor took a lot of time to move from one point to another.

When I ran ubuntu 12.04 or lower there were no such issues. Any idea what could be the problem and solution for this ?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 08 '16 at 07:54

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I guess you haven't installed an NVIDIA driver so far. You can easily install them via the Additional Driver tab in Software & Updates.

The dialog might look similar to this:

answered Jun 08 '16 at 07:54

dufte

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mine seems to be using X.Org X server ...however screen is still sluggish... – Bhargava Sai Jun 10 '16 at 07:40
Well in case you are currently using X.Org X Server and have issues - consider testing one of the NVIDIA drivers (as written in my initial answer) – dufte Jun 10 '16 at 07:44
that seemed to have done the job....thank you... – Bhargava Sai Jun 10 '16 at 10:01
Great to hear - please mark your post as answered then and enjoy your better performance ;) – dufte Jun 10 '16 at 10:05

Screen sluggish in Ubuntu 14.04

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