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Re: [Flightgear-users] [Bulk] Re: Strange rendering and performance problems with FlightGear 2.4 for MacOS
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From: Arnt K. <ar...@c2...> - 2011-09-19 22:35:43
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On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:34:04 -0700, Jack wrote in message <213...@ya...>: > Arnt, > > Thanks for your reply, I'm using an ATI Radeon X1600 on an iMac > intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB memory. ..sounds like a fair match to my Debian Sid+Experimental, V5200 FireGL (or somesuch in a Fujitsu Celsius H240) on the radeon driver, 4GB ram is seen as 3.3GB, last FG run was on git pre-2.4 in July with 15fps, and thenafter the guys found a bug that was slowing down things by a factor of 3(?), so I'm looking forward to try out FG-2.4. :o) ..I also saw rendering things go bad that none in FG's Nvidea crowd could see, and I have either a bad wire on my H240's bios battery assy, or a bad system board, it needed a nite in the freezer before it would boot, the last time. So until I have that soldered, I'm on a pee wee eeepc. ;o) > On Sep 19, 2011, at 2:47 AM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:44:23 -0700, Jack wrote in message > > <CB5...@ya...>: > > > >> 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 <jhm...@ya...> > >>> 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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