why is Flight Gear so slow?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> If you have proper hardware accelerated OpenGL, you should get frame rates in the thousands, 
> and only in the hundreds if you are using software OpenGL.

??? I don't understand.. Isn't the frame rate, the red number in the
bottom right corner of the screen ? Looked like so...

10 FPS is enough to play, 50 is incredibly smooth, anything beyond (max
I saw was 150, for half a second...), and I just can't sense the
difference. Movies have only 24FPS, and I am happy with the fluidity of
movies...

Hundreds of FPS sounds silly to me. But if that was achieveable without
3D card, then I don't see anypoint in spending big amounts on said
cards... and I would rather spend the money on a nice joystick...

Without H/W OpenGL, I get one FPS, or 0.25 FPS or about, not hundreds...

I am really confused now... :-/

Vince, scratching his head...