On 09/09/2013 12:59 PM, Renk Thorsten wrote: > > A report of performance dramatically improving for advanced weather when 3d > clouds are switched off in the rendering menu (you still get to see 3d clouds) > > http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=16630&start=30#p189983 > > I've played around with this, and I can't reproduce any significant framerate > difference. It is true that the cloud effect file doesn't condition on the 3d > cloud switch at all, so Advanced Weather generates 3d clouds no matter what > you select here (it can't do 2d clouds at all) - which may be a little > confusing, but I have no good idea how to handle this gracefully. Maybe the > switch should go away from rendering to the Basic Weather GUI? But that's a > side issue. > > I have no idea where any performance increase might be coming from though - > as far as I know, the shaders are completely unaware of this. Can anyone > reproduce the finding? Stuart, any idea where this could come from?
I was testing anyhow so I did a quick test. I don't see any improvement either. What (I think) can happen is that older (fgrun) config files could cause bad behaviour, especially when properties change function between FlightGear versions (for instance the effects level slider). Erik -- http://www.adalin.com - Hardware accelerated 4D AeonWave and OpenAL for Windows and Linux - AeonWave Audio Effects software for DJ, Instrumentalist and Vocalist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041391&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
