Andy Ross > Kees Lemmens wrote: > > On my rather new PIV Linux system with V6600 PCI-Express Nvidia card > > and the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7167 driver FlightGear slowed down to > > an unacceptable framerate (< 1fps) as soon as an airport became > > visible. > > I also have a Geforce 6600 in my desktop system, and saw the same > issue. I discovered that it was fixed by ... > > > But ... yesterday I installed the latest NVIDIA-7667 driver and now > > Flightgear works perfectly well on this system ! > > That. :) > > > Thanks to NVIDIA for their fine Linux drivers : many other videocard > > vendors could learn a LOT from the way Nvidia supports Linux ! > > Well, to be fair, this *was* a performance regression in their drivers > in the first place. Even better than fast releases would be drivers > that had no bugs at all, or ones where we can try to fix > the problems ourselves. NVidia supports Linux as well as they support > windows, which is commendable, but for some of us not quite > sufficient. > > I don't know what the problem was in the older driver. Presumably > something in the airport scene was triggering a software rendering > path. It's a driver bug, so we really don't have to concern ourselves > with it. As you note, other cards with the same drivers (the Geforce > 440 Go in my laptop, for instance) did not show the same issue. >
There was a theory going the rounds that it was the PAPI/VASI lights which were/are the cause of the significant drop of frame rate around airports. Vivian _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
