Arnt, Thanks for your reply, I'm using an ATI Radeon X1600 on an iMac intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB memory.
On Sep 19, 2011, at 2:47 AM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:44:23 -0700, Jack wrote in message > <cb531d8f-ae04-421c-995f-f5a32f042...@yahoo.com>: > >> Thanks, Curt, >> >> I tried your recommendation. The flashing airplane skin went away. >> The perceived frame rate improved from less then one frame per second >> to about three frames per second to a frame rate of better than three >> frames per second. The performance is still better using v >> 2.0.0.r284. The scenery looks better with that version, too. >> >> Jack > > ..which graphics card does your mac use? >> >> On Aug 29, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: >> >>> Hi Jack, >>> >>> Here's something to try (and if it is helpful, please let us know). >>> >>> Under "Main Menu" -> "View" -> "Rendering Options" there is a >>> "Shader Effects" section. Likely "Material Shaders" will be >>> checked, but none of the individual items will be turned on. Try >>> unchecking "Shader Effects". On an imac here that got me back to >>> smooth frame rates again. >>> >>> I think there was some discussion of this on the forum along with a >>> command line option that will set this to off automatically on >>> startup. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Curt. >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Jack Moore <jhmoore...@yahoo.com> >>> wrote: I downloaded and installed FlightGear v 2.4 for MacOS last >>> night. I installed it on top of FlightGear v 2.0. When I opened fg >>> at KSFO with the default Cessna 172, the skin of the aircraft was >>> flashing and had weird patterns that kept changing. Redrawing of >>> the window became very sluggish, about one frame every 2 seconds. >>> >>> I thought that installing over v 2.0 may have been an issue, so I >>> moved flightgear from Applications to trash, emptied trash, opened >>> a terminal, removed ~/.fgfs and reinstalled v 2.4. The problem >>> persisted. >>> >>> I removed v 2.4 as above and reinstalled v 2.0. v 2.0 appears to >>> work as expected. >>> >>> Is this a known problem? If so is it something that will be fixed >>> in a later version? >>> >>> Jack >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! >>> Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better >>> price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you >>> download Logger. 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