Kees Lemmens wrote:
But ... yesterday I installed the latest NVIDIA-7667 driver and now Flightgear works perfectly well on this system ! I even can use 1280x1024 and still have high framerates without any noticable hickups !
It looks like they use FlightGear now to test their drivers :-)
Nevertheless there still remains the question : why would the card with the old driver slowdown to a crawl if any airport was visible while other 3D apps wouldn't have any performance problems ? Could it have been something with the landing lights ?
It is the support of OpenGL extensions that makes OpenGL hard for driver developers, but *very* flexible for the graphics developers. If an extensions is reported to be supported, but at the same time uses software rendering, it will slow down the whole program.
If that particular extension isn't used by any of the other programs, you won't notice anything when running these programs.
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