Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: night slowdown with nvidia GeForce 6200 on linux

[Diogo K. <dk...@bs...>]

Erik Hofman wrote:
> Ok, I've added support for point sprites. I does indeed increase the 
> framerate in my PC.
> I find this a rather peculiar extension though. Especially since SGI
> has 
> always been using point sprites without naming them.
> 
> You know, there's this thing about points, if you rotate at any given 
> angle, them you still see the same shape...

I'm getting square lights with GL_POINT_SPRITE just like if
GL_POINT_SMOOTH is disabled. Actually looks like the GL_POINT_SMOOTH
state is always disabled when GL_POINT_SPRITE is enabled. Is that
expected? The performance problem is gone though. I'm using the binary
nvidia 81.78 driver with a Geforce3.

Diogo