Bug#447515: gnome-games: With the new graphics, gnometris is very slow

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Package: gnome-games
Version: 1:2.20.0.1-1
Severity: normal


Hi,

Since my last update (I suspect to Gnome 2.20), gnometris is very
slow. The graphics are much prettier than they were, but the game
reacts much slower than it used to, even on my decent box (AMD at 1.8
Ghz, 1 Go RAM). For example, each piece rotation has a little lag. And
when using the space bar to put immediatly a piece at the bottom of
the screen, it takes sometimes up to 1-2 seconds (making me think that
I didn't push space, so I push it again, and again, and then multiple
pieces fall at the bottom once the lag disappears).

I'm using the free "nv" driver for my NVidia card, because I prefer to
not use the non-free driver "nvidia". Maybe this is making the graphic
rendering much slower, but the previous version of gnometris was
working perfectly on that exact setup, so I consider it to be a
regression. If needed, I can try it with the "nvidia" driver, if you
want me to make sure that the problem really comes from the graphic
rendering.

Thanks a lot,

Thomas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.1 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-games depends on:
ii  gnome-games-data        1:2.20.0.1-1     data files for the GNOME games
ii  gnuchess                5.07-4           Plays a game of chess, either agai
ii  guile-1.8-libs          1.8.2+1-2        Main Guile libraries
ii  libc6                   2.6.1-6          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2               1.4.10-1         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libexpat1               1.95.8-4         XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.2.2-3        GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4             2.20.0-1         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.14.2-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0             2.20.0-1         The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0            2.20.1.1-1       The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0          1:2.20.0-3       GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgnutls13             2.0.1-1          the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0      0.10.14-2        Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.12.0-3         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.18.2-2         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-2              2.18.2-1         SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  librsvg2-common         2.18.2-1         SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libstdc++6              4.2.2-3          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                2:1.0.3-7        X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                 2.6.30.dfsg-2    GNOME XML library
ii  python                  2.4.4-6          An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-gnome2           2.20.0-1         Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gnome2-desktop   2.20.0-1         Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gtk2             2.12.0-1         Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-6 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gnome-games recommends:
ii  gnome-games-extra-data        2.20.0-1   games for the GNOME desktop (extra
ii  python-gtkglext1              1.1.0-3    GtkGLext python bindings
ii  python-opengl                 3.0.0~a6-4 Python bindings to OpenGL

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