Innis Cunningham wrote: > > Hi Curt > I downloaded the windows binaries last night for > 9.4 and the problem of the drop down menu's > locking the sim up still seem to exist.Even if you > go to exit FG and then select cancel the sim locks up.
Hey Innis, you just downloaded the release that is 3 months old ! There is no *** 0.9.5555555 *** ( not 4 ) Win32 binary yet. FYI, the menu lockup has been corrected in the binary below and is ok for the upcoming release. ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Win32/FlightGear-0.9.4a.exe -Fred > The reason that I downloaded the binaries was that I > have just built a new box,that I am going to put linux > on,but wanted to find out how the new box compaired > for speed to the old box. To my surprise the frame rates > were worse than the old box. > The following tests were done using windows 98SE > The old box was a 850meg duron with 256 meg ram and > a GF4-MX-440 64meg graphics card.On this box I could get 27fps > sitting at the end of 28R at KSFO looking at the terminal. > The new box a 2gig athalon with 512meg ram and a FX5200 > 128meg graphics card could only give 22fps under the same > conditions.Also my son who has a 2.8 gig rig running an ATI 9800pro > card could only get 15fps.It seems the more powerfull the computer > the slower FG seems to run. > Now I dont know why that is but if we want to get new people into > FG we should see what the problem is. > As my son says if he had downloaded the game(sorry sim)and seen these > kind of results he would have just scrubed it and moved on and I guess > there are a lot of other people who would do the same thing. > My son says that he gets frame rates of well over 100 on Quake and Doom > which seem to be much more graphics intensive than FG. > Also I noticed that in the 9.4 base the runfgfs bat file has been removed. > Was there a reason for this. > I guess I did not notice this before because I was running the 9.4 binaries > with the CVS version of the base package and my own bat files. > When I ran the 9.4 version I downloaded last night it seemed to flash up > a dos window saying bad command or file name about were I would expect > to see the Alpha window on my other version of 9.4.The sim would then > continue to load.But once loaded the runway had black lines at the end of > each texture. > I have seen this before when running AC3D and FG 9.4 at the same time on > my old box.On that system the sim would, under those conditions, only run at > about 1fps or less.But in that case I could get the sim to run correctly by > shutting > down AC3D(maybe a memory thing).But with the version I downloaded last night > I could not get the black lines to disappear at all. > Is anyone else seeing this. > >From the air the runway looks like a step ladder. > Also on the new box the frame rates do not seem to change if I > have full fog or no fog.On the old box the frame rates would half > with no fog > So with a new version coming out could these problems be looked at. > - > >Curtis Olson > > Thanks in advance > Cheers > Innis > > _________________________________________________________________ > Play Love Hunt to win a $9000 holiday and find love! > http://mobilecentral.ninemsn.com.au/mclovehunt/lovehunt.aspx > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
