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The most likely cause is that you're not using hardware accelerated video drivers. Rviz works best with nVidia graphics cards and the propriety driver. My guess is that you're using software rendering (as opposed to taking advantage of the hardware on the GPU), and that this is what's causing the slow-down. I'd suggest that you make sure you're using hardware-accelerated video drivers, and see if that helps.

The best long-term solution, though, is probably to switch to an nVidia video card.