Linux Mint 17 on Laptop Acer Aspire-E5-571G PART2

Linux Mint 17 on Laptop Acer Aspire-E5-571G PART1

• Nvidia driver

I added this PPA
https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
And install Nvidia-343 driver
I find out that prismusrun is alternative to optirun

• Avoiding Video tearing while watching 60 fps video

VLC useless

Mplayer works only with Intel vaapi

$ export VDPAU_DRIVER=va_gl &&  mplayer -cache 8192 file.mkv 

XBMC kodi can use both Nvidia or Intel vaapi (default)
$ prismusrun kodi
$ kodi

Totem works with Nvidia
$ prismusrun totem

• Gaming

I Instaled Wine1.7 and using prismus StartCraft II works!
$ prismusrun wine /path/to/StarCraft-II-Setup-enGB.exe

• Resource

http://askubuntu.com/questions/305305/running-xbmc-on-bumblebee-nvidia
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2121749

• Note

Hard drive on this laptop is large 1TB, but not very fast. Thats why mplayer better works with bigger cache option. I came to conclusion that most of the lag is hard drive retailed. So I made a few more settings. Set swappiness to 1 (how to) ant added "noatime" to FSTAB.