> Diogo Kastrup wrote: >> On an unrelated issue, I am not sure if this is a problem with ATI cards, >> but I got >> frustrated with the frame-rate I got after the upgrade. I was getting around >> 30-40 fps >> with the old machine and now it is around 35-45 with a intel I-7 860, ATI >> HD4890, 4gB >> DDR3. Is this lower than you would expect from this machine? > > Are both with 3d clouds and shader effects visible?
Only 3D clouds were enabled on both machines, and the previous computer was an AMD 64 3000+, GF6800XT and 1Gb DDR. As flightgear doesn't make intensive use of threads, maybe the bottleneck is the CPU and a single core of the I-7 is roundly as fast as the AMD 3000+? Diogo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
