Re: [Flightgear-devel] Optimal desktop processor/graphic card

2010-09-15 Thread fierst42
Hello, Make sure you have enough memory too. At least 4GB and a 64b OS seems nice. I am pretty sure the Core-i5 would do nicely. You can tell fgfs to use multiple CPU's in preferences.xml (look for 'multi' and read the comment in the file). I would be suspicious of the ATI cards because there

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A puzzling problem with FG XML parsing

2010-09-15 Thread Alasdair
On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 09:25 -0600, Ron Jensen wrote: On Monday 13 September 2010 19:57:55 Alasdair wrote: I have recently been delving into FG's innards, with a view to fixing some problems with the speech handling capabilities. This has led indirecly to my having to understand how XML

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Optimal desktop processor/graphic card

2010-09-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:29:42 +0200, fiers...@zonnet.nl wrote in message 4c909206.1080...@zonnet.nl: Op 11-09-10 19:13, Leonardo Fabian Grodek schreef: Hi, I'm planning to buy a new desktop PC and I want to be sure I will be able to run FG smoothly (I may also be doing some video editing,

[Flightgear-devel] Musings on optimizing Nasal code

2010-09-15 Thread thorsten . i . renk
I've just spent a session optimizing performance of the weather dynamics routines, and I have largely done so by analyzing the performance of elementary Nasal function calls and making use of my findings (and also by dispensing with the pretense of elegant coding). I was rather gratified to see

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Musings on optimizing Nasal code

2010-09-15 Thread Erik Hofman
thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi wrote: I've just spent a session optimizing performance of the weather dynamics routines, and I have largely done so by analyzing the performance of elementary Nasal function calls and making use of my findings (and also by dispensing with the pretense of elegant