From: <fiers...@zo...> - 2010-11-20 10:33 > I have done two tests, directly after eachother. Same conditions, same METAR.
One thing to note here is that, prior to yesterday's update, the size of the scenery area loaded/rendered at start-up did _not_ depend on the visibility (weather/METAR), neither on any visibility configured manually (command-line etc). FG would always load the same number of tiles at start-up - no matter what the weather/configuration was. This was a bug, since the tile manager didn't bother about visibility changes - and METAR/manually configured visibility was only set _after_ the initial scenery was already scheduled. This has changed yesterday: now, once visibility increases considerably (METAR is received, weather configured) this, as expected, causes an immediate update and loading of all required scenery. So, even if you have configured the same conditions/METAR, this may not be a fair comparison. It's possible that METAR specifies 10nm visibility, but an older FG build would still render only 5nm at start-up (meaning only a quarter of the actually required scenery tiles). With older FG builds, you should wait for METAR to be received, then fly (or reposition) your plane several miles away from the initial location. This location change triggers the scenery scheduler which only then takes the correct visibility into account. I doubt though that this could cause such a severe drop of framerate. And which plane are you using for this comparison? cheers, Thorsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today http://p.sf.net/sfu/msIE9-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
