Stuart > Hi All, > > I'd like to propose having random buildings enabled in preferences.xml, so > they are switched on by default. I think they improve the realism of our > Urban, Suburban and Town sceneries significantly. > > I ran a poll on the forums to determine the fps impact of the random > buildings (http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=16204). > Out of 15 responses > - 5 had no frame-rate impact > - 5 had minimal impact (one or two fps) > - 4 had noticeable impact, but considered it worthwhile > - 1 had noticeable impact, and would have to consider enabling it on a flight- > by-flight basis > - 0 reported a major impact on frame-rate that would preclude switching it > on. > > Here on the list, James (at least) has noticed really significant fps impact. > > There is a significant memory footprint, but this appears to be only an issue > when using building densities >1. > > At present our default is for random vegetation and random objects to be > switched on, both of which also have fps and memory impacts. > > I'd therefore like to suggest that we enable the random buildings by default > as well. > > Does anyone have any objections, or want to second the proposal? > > -Stuart
Here, with Win7(32), the cost in memory is such the FG won't start reliably at KLAX with Random Objects, Random Veg, and Random Buildings set to true and = 1. Any 2 out of the 3 are OK. Add Advanced Weather and FG reliably crashes out-of-memory. Much as I like Random Buildings, I would be very cautious about going down this route, as I think we're pushing the envelope here. Vivian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
