Comment 27 for bug 217580

Yes your right the "Old version" is definitely a work around. It would be nice to see the bug resolved though because on my WinXP machine both modes run fine.

On a side note I have also found the performance to be oddly better with my NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT with the open source drivers than the nvidia-glx-new drivers from restricted. This is unfortunate because I cannot use Compiz-fusion with the open source ones.