On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:37:42 +0200, HB-GRAL wrote in message <4bcb97c6.90...@sablonier.ch>:
> I am running a MacBookPro OSX 10.5 ..this is the most recent OSX? 64bit dualcore Intel? Maxed out ram yet? What screen resolution? What frame rates have you seen this far on it? ..<snip stuff I dunno. ;o) >. > Is my MacBookPro out of date with RadeonX1600 now? ..only if Apple has end-lifed it (which I doubt), and not if you can run it with X.org's "radeon" driver. ..as a backup idea; try boot it with a recest GNU/Linux Live CD or LiveUSB stick, it should default to X.org's "radeon" (or the "ati" wrapper) driver, and on your X1600, "radeon" should beat all other drivers. ..run it from ramdisk, and "install FG" onto that same ramdisk, that approach saves you from touching your OSX install and shows you what the X1600 etc hardware _can_ do. ;o) ..GNU/Linux benchmarks with tweak ideas that _may_ work for OSX too, OSX runs on top of Apple's "version" of *BSD Unix: http://www.free3d.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoronix http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/R300Benchmark http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon#FOSS_drivers http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature ..the hardware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units#Radeon_R500_.28X1xxx.29_series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_R520#X1600_series http://ati.amd.com/products/radeonx1600/specs.html http://ati.amd.com/products/radeonx1600/index.html -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
