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

On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:34:04 -0700, Jack wrote in message 
<[email protected]>:

> Arnt,
> 
> Thanks for your reply,  I'm using an ATI Radeon X1600 on an iMac
> intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB memory.

..sounds like a fair match to my Debian Sid+Experimental, V5200 FireGL
(or somesuch in a Fujitsu Celsius H240) on the radeon driver, 4GB ram is
seen as 3.3GB, last FG run was on git pre-2.4 in July with 15fps, and
thenafter the guys found a bug that was slowing down things by a factor
of 3(?), so I'm looking forward to try out FG-2.4. :o) 

..I also saw rendering things go bad that none in FG's Nvidea crowd
could see, and I have either a bad wire on my H240's bios battery assy,
or a bad system board, it needed a nite in the freezer before it would
boot, the last time.  So until I have that soldered, I'm on a pee wee
eeepc. ;o)

> On Sep 19, 2011, at 2:47 AM, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> 
> > 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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