On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 10:17:39 -0600, Andrzej wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > ..you cut your colors from 32bit to 16bit, ATI's cards are all > > 24bit, how are your 24bit framerates? > > > My ASUS GeForce 2 Ti 32 MB gives following results (using --geometry > 1024x768): > > 1. Windows 2K with NVidia provided drivers (on of the latest FG I > believe 0.98 taken from the website a few months ago): > -16 bit (High Color) - 43-45 FPS > -32 bit (so called True Color) - 25-42 FPS (it drops to 25 or > even more > when the horizon is very far) ..24 bit on this? Nvidea didn't do ATI's "24bit cheat", so their 24bit numbers should line up with either your 16 or 32 bit figure, and not "hold the middle ground" like ATI, which tries to with their cheat, which has their "16bit" look better and their "32bit", like 24bit. > 2. Linux Mandrake 10.0 with kernel 2.4 and rather older NVidia driver > (FG compiled out of the cvs a few days ago): > -16 bit - 62-77 FPS > -24 bit - 38-47 FPS ..and with the new drivers? Some old Nvidea might even work with DRI. > > Note that Windows does not give an option to run 24-bit (I am not sure > what 32-bit/True Color means either) and Linux that 32-bit. ..chances are 24bit isn't possible on this combination of OS, HW and drivers. > Interestingly, the sound under Linux and 16-bit mode got strangely > interrupts. Under Linux 24-bit it I do not see (or rather hear :-) > that effect. -- ..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. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
