Evan, I have a dual CPU PII 450 running NT 4.0 and Java 3d does use both CPUs. Based upon non-scientific comparisons between my machine and a co-workers single CPU PII 450 I believe I get significantly better results using my dual CPU computer. Regards, Gregory Bradford Evan Drumwright wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am trying to ascertain what effect a second processor, running on Windows > NT, has on a Java 3D scene incorporating *only* animation. We're currently > getting only about 4 fps with a complex scene (lots of polygons used to > approximate curves). We have experimented using much simpler artwork, and > still get only a max of about 15 fps. > > Before anyone asks, we've benchmarked this on three machines, all Pentium > II-350 or faster, under Windows NT and Windows 95, with two different AGP > video cards (Diamond Stealth V770 Ultra AGP and a Matrox 3D accelerator). > No machine shows an appreciable result. Also, there is no processing that > our program is doing to cause the FPS to drop like this. Performing only > rendering of the artwork runs at 4 fps. > > Realistically, we would like to get at least 10 fps with the more complex > artwork. Will a second processor help us with this? > > Evan Drumwright > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
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