I noticed that the new 3D instruments on pa28-161 causes my frame rate to drop to low 
single digits (2-3 fps) (Windows 2000, Cygwin, Celeron 600, GeForce2MX). Panning the 
view so that the instruments are not in view brings it back up to about 20fps. I 
cannot remember what I got with the 2D instruments though.

Yes, I know that a Celeron 600 is a little out of date. I found a suggestion on the 
web last week that Celeron 600s are usually good for nearly 1GHz, so I may try that as 
a short-term fix. I quite fancy building an Athlon 64 based PC though :-)

Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Megginson
> Sent: 27 February 2004 1:23 pm
> To: FlightGear developers discussions
> Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2D EFIS Instrument
> 
<snip>
> As the original author of the 2D instrument code, I *strongly* advise
> against building 2D instruments.  Since I switched to an all 
> 3D panel in the
> plane I'm working on, my framerate has gone from 10-15 fps to 
> 20-30 fps
> (admittedly on a low-end card), even with larger textures.  I 
> think that the
> only thing missing from the 3D animation code now is text, 
> and that should
> be easy to add.
<snip>

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