While playing around with different versions of the DRI Radeon drivers today, I noticed an odd thing: with the standard c172 model in the external view, if I look at the model from head on, I get 20-25 fps, whereas if I look from a perspective where part of the spinning propeller disk is obscured by the airframe, I get ~6 fps. I get the same 6 fps all the time when I run with the 3d model.
I'm just curious whether this same effect is seen by anyone else, particularly people running NVidia hardware - if it's a driver issue, I'll take this to the DRI devel list. If it's something to do with FlightGear or plib, it'd be nice if there was some way to deal with this - being limited to around 6 fps makes the 3d models almost unusable by me, and I don't have the money to upgrade to faster hardware . . . For the record, I have a K7 550, a Radeon QD (32 MB), Linux 2.4.19-pre8, XFree86 4.2.0, and the latest DRI CVS tree, along with the latest CVS trees from FlightGear, SimGear and plib. Simon -- PGP public key Id 0x144A991C, or ftp://bg77.anu.edu.au/pub/himi/himi.asc (crappy) Homepage: http://bg77.anu.edu.au doe #237 (see http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS) My DeCSS mirror: ftp://bg77.anu.edu.au/pub/mirrors/css/
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