Hi, Just in case it helps someone else with the same problem :
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. Turning away from the airport would immediately restore the original , normal, framerate but it made of course landings impossible ;-) I tried everything, more simple rendering, lesser details and even went down to 640x480 but nothing solved the problem and so I didn't even use FlightGear on that system for some time. For the rest both card and Nvidia driver worked fine, also for more sophisticated 3D Linux games (as my son assured me ;-) But ... yesterday I installed the latest NVIDIA-7667 driver and now Flightgear works perfectly well on this system ! I even can use 1280x1024 and still have high framerates without any noticable hickups ! Thanks to NVIDIA for their fine Linux drivers : many other videocard vendors could learn a LOT from the way Nvidia supports Linux ! Nevertheless there still remains the question : why would the card with the old driver slowdown to a crawl if any airport was visible while other 3D apps wouldn't have any performance problems ? Could it have been something with the landing lights ? BTW: on AGP systems also the old 7167 driver worked fine and fast. Only PCI-Express cards had this problem (until yesterday ;-) Bye, Kees Lemmens. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
