Re: [Flightgear-users] Frames Per Second
On Friday 16 December 2005 13:46, Ron Waite wrote: However, I was wondering if there was someone developing a way to be able to keep good-looking graphics and high-detail while keeping high FPS? Yes. Buy a more powerful graphics card :-) Seriously though - could you clarify what are you referring to in particular - the scenery? The aircraft 3D models? Objects in the scenery? We already have quite a few nice graphical effects, often disabled by default for performance reasons (you can turn some of them on through the view/rendering options menus). You are very welcome (and encouraged) to help contribute new scenery objects etc - if you think aircraft models are lacking in detail or unfinished (which admittedly some are) then you can also help out there. With a reasonably powerful computer and decent graphics card, even with all the graphical effects turned on framerates should be very acceptable (i.e. over 30fps or so). Cheers, AJ ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] Frames Per Second
From: AJ MacLeod [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: FlightGear user discussions flightgear-users@flightgear.org To: FlightGear user discussions flightgear-users@flightgear.org Subject: Re: [Flightgear-users] Frames Per Second Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:50:38 + On Friday 16 December 2005 13:46, Ron Waite wrote: However, I was wondering if there was someone developing a way to be able to keep good-looking graphics and high-detail while keeping high FPS? Yes. Buy a more powerful graphics card :-) Seriously though - could you clarify what are you referring to in particular - the scenery? The aircraft 3D models? Objects in the scenery? We already have quite a few nice graphical effects, often disabled by default for performance reasons (you can turn some of them on through the view/rendering options menus). You are very welcome (and encouraged) to help contribute new scenery objects etc - if you think aircraft models are lacking in detail or unfinished (which admittedly some are) then you can also help out there. With a reasonably powerful computer and decent graphics card, even with all the graphical effects turned on framerates should be very acceptable (i.e. over 30fps or so). Cheers, AJ ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d I've actually got an Athlon64 3500+, Radeon X200 card, 512MB RAM, and around airports and some features (like horizon effect) on, and I get 5 FPS. Is it possibly a scenery problem? It doesn't help much if I turn some effects off. Or is it possibly my computer having performance issues. _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] Frames Per Second
Ron Waite wrote: I've actually got an Athlon64 3500+, Radeon X200 card, 512MB RAM, and around airports and some features (like horizon effect) on, and I get 5 FPS. Is it possibly a scenery problem? It doesn't help much if I turn some effects off. Or is it possibly my computer having performance issues. It sounds like some performance issues on your end. It's always good to go fetch and install the latest drivers for your graphics card. On a mid to upper end system you should be able to easily get a solid 30-60 fps if not a lot higher. You might also double check that you don't have some insane level of antialiasing turned on (in your display settings.) Even the newest cards let you turn on rendering quality features that can really cut into performance to. Curt. -- Curtis Olsonhttp://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org Unique text:2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] Frames Per Second
On Friday 16 December 2005 15:41, Ron Waite wrote: I've actually got an Athlon64 3500+, Radeon X200 card, 512MB RAM, and around airports and some features (like horizon effect) on, and I get 5 FPS. Is it possibly a scenery problem? It doesn't help much if I turn some effects off. Or is it possibly my computer having performance issues. On a lesser AMD box with a Nvidia 6600 card I would expect ten times that (and more) for fps. I know nothing about ATI cards - but it sounds rather like you're using software rendering. In other words, your graphics card is not actually doing the hard work it specialises in at all, but leaving the CPU to struggle away with everything. Which OS are you running and do you have the latest graphics drivers installed? Do other OpenGL programs run at full speed? Cheers, AJ ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] Frames Per Second
From: AJ MacLeod [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: FlightGear user discussions flightgear-users@flightgear.org To: FlightGear user discussions flightgear-users@flightgear.org Subject: Re: [Flightgear-users] Frames Per Second Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:00:12 + On Friday 16 December 2005 15:41, Ron Waite wrote: I've actually got an Athlon64 3500+, Radeon X200 card, 512MB RAM, and around airports and some features (like horizon effect) on, and I get 5 FPS. Is it possibly a scenery problem? It doesn't help much if I turn some effects off. Or is it possibly my computer having performance issues. On a lesser AMD box with a Nvidia 6600 card I would expect ten times that (and more) for fps. I know nothing about ATI cards - but it sounds rather like you're using software rendering. In other words, your graphics card is not actually doing the hard work it specialises in at all, but leaving the CPU to struggle away with everything. Which OS are you running and do you have the latest graphics drivers installed? Do other OpenGL programs run at full speed? Cheers, AJ ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d I use Windows XP with SP2. I just downloaded the Omega drivers based on the Catalyst 5.12 drivers, but I'll have to install them later. I run MSFS 2004, not sure if it is OpenGL or not, but it too runs a little slower than what should be expected. Perhaps when I install the drivers I'll expirement with the card settings. _ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
