On Monday 24 Jan 2005 14:01, Oliver C. wrote: > On Monday 24 January 2005 15:05, Dave Martin wrote: > > I've also been confused by the monumental frame drop that even the simple > > runway lighting can produce at airports such as EGLL. > > > > And I do have a fairly hefty system which has been known to run graphical > > behemoths like Doom3 at a fair lick. > > > > The obvious response from the 'non-programmers' perspective ie: 'user' > > is: > > > > "Why on earth do these little dots bring my new Model-X video card to its > > knees?" > > > > So what's the crack? ;) > > > > Dave Martin > > I assume that this feature is not supported by the hardware on the consumer > video cards. > So OpenGL falls back to software mode. > That's why we get 1-3 fps here. > Well, thats interesting; would that also explain why the normal 'point' lighting has such a crippling effect on the frame-rate?
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