Lights Off reacts very slowly

[Matthias Ziehm]

Binary package hint: gnome-games

When clicking on a field in the Lights Off game, the reaction (light changes) occur with an enormous delay. Also activating the drop-down menu and opening for example the 'About' entry is very slow.
Some other gnome-games e.g. Nibbles seem also very slow, while others e.g. Mahjongg are not.

glxgears show: 2292 frames in 5.0 seconds and 2977 frames in 5.0 seconds
CPU as well as RAM usage don't seem to change significantly on start-up of the programms and are relatively low.

Best,
 Matthias

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: lightsoff 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jul 6 14:27:05 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-games

[CyrusCT (cyrusct)]

This affects me as well (64-bit Lucid on Dell Inspiron 1420n).

I have also noticed this same problem in Swell Foop.

With both games, I have to wait so long for the animations that I lose patience and give up trying to play.

Gnome games should help relieve stress, not create it!

[CyrusCT (cyrusct)]

The situation seems to have worsened for me. These games are now either frozen, or moving so slowly that I can't distinguish the difference.

The following related bugs now better describe my situation and related frustration:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-games/+bug/673092
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-games/+bug/626016
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-games/+bug/572577

from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-games/+bug/626016
Ori Avtalion wrote on 2010-11-14: #11
I think this commit fixes the bug:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-games/commit/?id=98b73ad020ba6e61f0a9243a938792cd94c337ed

Can someone please point me in the right direction for understanding what a "commit" is, and what I need to do to install it on my system?