Comment 5 for bug 665787

I can't do nothing about this kind of bug. It's a hardware problem: your card or its drivers doesn't support 3d. I got a nvidia too and it just works fine. Anyway u'll see the same problems in unity/gnome-shell etc (whatever use 3d).

For intel hardware it can be fixed with "export CLUTTER_VBLANK=none"

nautilus-elementary can be compiled without clutter:
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --disable-clutter-view
make && sudo make install