Ron Jensen wrote:
> The A10 has huge texture requirements, and lots and lots of polygons...
> a 64 MB MX440 probably isn't enough card to run it well.
>
>   
Is this for the panel, or the aircraft exterior view?  If the latter, is 
there an easy way to kill the exterior view?  I don't need that, I'm on 
the inside!
> By way of comparison, in my tree at least, the A-10 has 87 texture files
> and most seem to be 512x512.  The T38 has 14 texture files with an
> average size of 256x256.  A pretty significant difference.
>
>   
Yup!
> The chop is probably your card trying to deal with paging memory.
>
>   
OK, that makes sense.
>> One other quirk I noticed is if I got to full screen during the splash 
>> display, everything is OK.  If I wait until the FGFS display has 
>> started, it takes a LONG time for the full-screen display to rebuild, 
>> and the frame rate is roughly 1-2 frames per MINUTE!  Once FGFS has 
>> started, any change to the screen display mode causes this extreme 
>> slowdown.  Anyone else ever seen this?
>>     
> That's a new one on me...
>   
Well, it makes starting the program a bit tricky.  This is on the 0.9.10 
version, so hopefully this is all fixed in 1.0.x

Thanks,

Jon

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