KDE Plasma slows down during disk access.

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Hey Guys

After playing around trying to figure out why the animations are slowing down, I realised that it happens when the disk is being used. Such as when copying/moving a file/folder(s) and running a Virtual Machine.
Does anyone know a potential fix for this issue?

Thanks,
Hamish

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PC specifications please.

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Dell Precision M4800:
Intel i7 M4800MQ
NVIDIA Quadro K1100M
16GB RAM
256GB SSD

[SecretCode]

What driver do you have for the nvidia?

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Currently running NVIDIA 352.21. I've generated a Hardinfo report which you can download from here - https://mega.nz/#!RZRRFSRI!jgwFQRTLu...VME1UcDgRbOHu0.

[SecretCode]

The reason I asked about the graphics driver is that that's often a big factor in performance. Are other versions available that you can try? or possibly the nouveau driver? Unlikely to be better overall, but could certainly isolate the problem area.

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I'll try switching to my Intel GPU and see if the performance issue is still there. Also try those other drivers.

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Alright, so I switched to the Intel card and tested its driver. Runs a lot better than the NVIDIA from what I could tell. Tested the Nouveau driver, a lot of things were laggy but it didn't slow down during disk access. Went back to the NVIDIA driver and its the same as before. I guess the issue lies with the NVIDIA driver, any ideas on how to optimise performance?

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Anything I could do to optimise the performance when using the NVIDIA GPU or is this issue something that can only be fixed by the developers?