Re: [TuxKart-devel] Slowness - really related with Karts?

[Ingo R. <gr...@gm...>]

ri...@ae... writes:

>  The game is quite slow and, after a while, it can get the system
> unusable. I don't know what the problem is, but it looks like
> polygons have been reduced from Karts. My question is if that is
> really needed?

In short, yes. Simple test, look at fps with karts in view and look at
fps with karts out of the view so that they can get culled away. The
fps easily double or tripple without the karts in the view. There
might however be other reasons for the slowness, but the karts for
sure are one of them.

> This Karts polygons reduction is resulting in Karts uglier and less
> detailed than the DOS Kart games ones.

Textures will help a quite a bit to bring some details back, some
proper LOD should also help, especially with the wheels which really
tend to look sucky with the lower poly models.

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