Jonathan Polley wrote:
Fred,
I just ran FlightGear on my PC (built with cygwin under Windows)
and got some numbers similar to yours (I was running at 800x600 window
size). That leads me to ask for some clarification, when I say
buildings, I mean this
Jonathan Polley [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I just did a computer upgrade and I am trying to better understand its
capabilities, WRT FlightGear. To do this, I am curious as to the frame
rates that people are seeing with buildings turned ON. Here is my
.frgsrc (and FlightGear is build single
Actually, it is the buildings that cause a MAJOR throughput hit. Does
anyone know how to turn them off (disabling random objects does not
disable buildings)?
If I use [EMAIL PROTECTED] as a benchmark, the new machine is about 3x faster
than the old one. This is a G5 PowerMac with a Radeon
Jonathan Polley wrote:
Actually, it is the buildings that cause a MAJOR throughput hit. Does
anyone know how to turn them off (disabling random objects does not
disable buildings)?
You can tweak the following properties in preferences.xml :
/sim/rendering/static-lod/detailed
Fred,
That does help my frame rates (the worst case rate went from 8FPS
to 14), but I still have the structures being drawn. What I would like
is something like --disable-structures (I looked and couldn't find one).
Jonathan Polley
p.s., I also had to set the LOD to be tiny (detailed=15,
I had to re-login to my old machine to finish transferring some files. Here are the
frame rates that the old Mac was giving (it is a single processor G4 running at 867
MHz, with 1 GB RAM, GeForce3 with 64 MB RAM).
On tarmac = 8 FPS (compared to 20 with the new machine)
Flying at the end of the
Jonathan Polley wrote:
I had to re-login to my old machine to finish transferring some files.
Here are the frame rates that the old Mac was giving (it is a single
processor G4 running at 867 MHz, with 1 GB RAM, GeForce3 with 64 MB RAM).
On tarmac = 8 FPS (compared to 20 with the new machine)
Fred,
I just ran FlightGear on my PC (built with cygwin under Windows)
and got some numbers similar to yours (I was running at 800x600 window
size). That leads me to ask for some clarification, when I say
buildings, I mean this (http://homepage.mac.com/eq_fidget/mac_fgfs.jpg)
and not
