On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 02:25:27 +0200 Boris Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Innis Cunningham wrote: >> Also thanks to those involved in the speed increase.Havn't seen frame >> rates over 100 fps since 9.1. > > Has anybody really been able to achieve a framerate of *100* FPS ?? > > I am a bit surprised - what kind of hardware is/was involved, > cause in one (gaming) machine I am using a very recent graphics > adapter that doesn't give me much more than 15-20 FPS with FG > if I am lucky. > > Only an old ATI Rage 128 gives me a really playable framerate > (approx. twice that much), the only drawback being then is > that there are some graphical problems with that sort of card (as > previously reported & discussed on the devel list). > > So if some of you really achieve that kind of framerate, I'd love > to hear what hardware you're using - or what else may be different > for your system (don't tell me now about wireframe mode, though)
I'm not getting 100. However, I'm doing much better than the numbers
you give, now.
I have an Athlon XP 2000 pumping an nVidia GF4 Ti4600 128MB -- the hot
card from 2 years ago. I run FG in 1600x1200 mode, with nothing turned
off or down . . .so, fairly graphics intensive.
After the recent patches, flying the Cessna around downtown SF, I
typically get 25fps. Elsewhere, 30-50 is normal for me. Earlier
today, while trying (and failing, dammit) to slow the Beaver down
so I could land at less than 85 mph, I briefly hit about 80fps.
My framerates are, for the most part, good enough that I've been
experimenting with the values in materials.xml, increasing the
surface density of ground structures. I was able to double the
density of all the urban structures without a significant frame
rate hit (but with some odd results in the timing of the first
render for many of the structures). But sadly, the one I most
wanted to up -- the tree density -- can't really be adjusted.
There are already a lot of trees, even at low densities; and if
I double the surface density, I get tons of "DList stack overflow"
messages and the framerate drops to 2. It's a shame, because I'd
love for the forests to be more flush.
-c
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