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

[Matze B. <ma...@br...>]

F12 enables FPS display in the cvs version.

Greetings,
	Matze

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Ricardo Cruz wrote:

> Em Quinta, 2 de Setembro de 2004 00:00, o Ingo Ruhnke escreveu:
> > 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.
> 
>  In my system, there is no significant change on speed when Karts are there or 
> not. I have FPS disabled (how can one enable them?), but I can't really tell 
> the difference. Of course, in other video cards - especially the badly X11 
> supported, like ATI - there might be significant lag when a few karts are 
> visible.
>  But the slowness that occurs after a while (I don't even have to drive, just 
> to stay there) is surely the responsible of some bad code.
> 
>  Anyway, maybe the best solution would be to have a Karts detail option in 
> Graphics Options, and one could change between both versions of the cards: 
> the one with lots of polygons and the other with fewer.
> 
>  It is also good to know that textures can help - haven't remember of those -, 
> but ugly stuff like those heads made of squares will not be helped:
> http://rpmcruz.planetaclix.pt/trash/tuxkart-dinoface.png
> 
> Cheers,
>  Ricardo
> 
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