Bad viewport performance in Linux Mint

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Hello,

I’m a Windows user but recently installed Linux Mint to try it out. So far I’m really enjoying the user experience, however, I can’t get Blender to behave as smooth as it does in Windows 7/10. I tried different drivers and settings inside Blender but nothing works. In material mode I get around 1fps with a simple cube in the viewport and in solid mode it never hits 60fps.

Inside User Preferences I can’t choose any OpenSubdiv compute method either. As for MultiSample under Window Draw Method, I can choose different sampling but it doesn’t affect antialiased viewport either.

I hope I’m doing something wrong because I really like this platform.

Here are my Blender settings, as you can see with OpenSubdiv I can’t choose anything but None.

This is the Nvidia driver I’m currently using.

And this is my system info.

Thanks,

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Hi.
Does the same problem occur if you use Blender official, tar.bz2 file?

Download tar.bz2 file (64 bit):

Extract tar.bz2 file to new folder. Enter to the folder and execute (double click) on ‘blender’ file.

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Oh wow, this is embarrassing, for some reason I was opening softwaregl instead of blender :eek:, what a fool.

Thanks a lot YAFU, you made me redownload the program and realize my stupid mistake. Silk smooth now.

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Cool! Enjoy Linux :slight_smile: