why is Flight Gear so slow?

[Will Backman]

On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 18:33 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > 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...

I'm talking about the frame rate in glxgears, not flightgear.  Sorry if
I wasn't clear enough.

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