[Plib-users] Hello and Performance Issues

[Scott L. <va...@be...>]

Hey guys, here's a first not to introduce myself and my project
and to ask my first performance question.  My name is Scott Le Grand
and I recently decided to use PLIB to help make a multiplatform
edition of BattleSphere (http://www.battlesphere.com) that wacky
Atari jaguar game that made a brief appearance on SlashDot as the
game with a first copy that ultimately went for $1575 on EBay.  Anyway,
while that was fun, the completion of the Jaguar edition frees up
development on current hardware which commenced about a week ago.

So my first task was to get a SkyBox up and running.  Job done, but...
With a cubic skybox composed of 6 faces of 512x512 textures, a large
window say 1000x1000 renders at about 3 fps on a LeadTek Winfast GeForce
SDR.  This seems pretty odd. Some terrain code I wrote several months
back walks all over this.  What am I missing?  Am I falling mysteriously
into a software path?  VTune shows 65% of the CPU time is spent in NVOGLNT,
about 15% in HAL, and another 15% spent in various parts of the kernel.
Any ideas?

Scott Le Grand