Re: Strange rendering and performance problems with FlightGear 2.4 for MacOS

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:44:23 -0700, Jack wrote in message 
<[email protected]>:

> Thanks, Curt,
> 
> I tried your recommendation.  The flashing airplane skin went away.
> The perceived frame rate improved from less then one frame per second
> to about three frames per second to a frame rate of better than three
> frames per second.  The performance is still better using v
> 2.0.0.r284.  The scenery looks better with that version, too.
> 
> Jack

..which graphics card does your mac use?
> 
> On Aug 29, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Curtis Olson wrote:
> 
> > Hi Jack,
> > 
> > Here's something to try (and if it is helpful, please let us know).
> > 
> > Under "Main Menu" -> "View" -> "Rendering Options" there is a
> > "Shader Effects" section.  Likely "Material Shaders" will be
> > checked, but none of the individual items will be turned on.  Try
> > unchecking "Shader Effects".  On an imac here that got me back to
> > smooth frame rates again.
> > 
> > I think there was some discussion of this on the forum along with a
> > command line option that will set this to off automatically on
> > startup.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Curt.
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Jack Moore <[email protected]>
> > wrote: I downloaded and installed FlightGear v 2.4 for MacOS last
> > night. I installed it on top of FlightGear v 2.0. When I opened fg
> > at KSFO with the default Cessna 172, the skin of the aircraft was
> > flashing and had weird patterns that kept changing.  Redrawing of
> > the window became very sluggish, about one frame every 2 seconds.
> > 
> > I thought that installing over v 2.0 may have been an issue, so I
> > moved flightgear from Applications to trash, emptied trash, opened
> > a terminal, removed ~/.fgfs and reinstalled v 2.4.  The problem
> > persisted.
> > 
> > I removed v 2.4 as above and reinstalled v 2.0.  v 2.0 appears to
> > work as expected.
> > 
> > Is this a known problem?  If so is it something that will be fixed
> > in a later version?
> > 
> > Jack
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