As an aside: When working on the codebase, I maintain a local script that launches FGFS by disabling whatever features prevent the simulation from being flyable on my development machine. When I am unable to turn off features that prevent the simulator from running, and disabling them in source isn't clean enough to maintain as a local patch, I stop working on the project until the next time I buy a machine ... at which point I revisit the script. Flyability includes being able to sustain at least 3 FPS.
It would probably make things a lot simpler for the average user if FGFS included a wizard that automatically identified which combinations of features would be usable on a specific installation. Using that result as constraining logic in the menus would allow unusable features to be kept disabled and trivially cheap features (for the given hardware) to be kept enabled. On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Erik Hofman <e...@ehofman.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 09:46 +0100, Vic Marriott wrote: >> > >>> It's probably not so much about memory consuming but more about >> > >>> resource >> > consuming. But be assured that most new options are easily turned off. <<< >> >> Sorry, but I think the point is being missed here. >> >> Where is the sense in making very impressive advancements to FG, if the >> average user has to turn most of them off in order to get a usable fps. > > Why does anybody always expect the most imressive results on their old > Intel 486DX? > > Advances in quality always requires more resources. Period. If your > hardware doesn't support it, bad for you but be grateful FlightGear at > least provides an option to turn to less nifty rendering. > > Erik > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to > monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second > resolution app monitoring today. Free. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
