ORIGINAL: da Rock
ORIGINAL: johndou
I was just browsing the KnifeEdge site and saw a post where some of the guys are comparing screen rates. Some of these guys have dual cores and all have 3D video cards with plenty of memory no one is getting decent Frames per Second "FPS" - screen rates. Everyone sets the screen and graphic settings to the highest possible and loads the same plane - (in this case a heli) and the same flying field as well as the same position on the flying field ... for comparison. So far the sampling is : 8 FPS, 11.5 FPS, 12.1 FPS, 5.5 FPS, 21.6 FPS, 12.1 FPS and 5.3 FPS. I'm guessing that you'd have to reduce the graphics considerably to get screen rates capable of flying with. Kind of defeats the purpose of upgrading ... <?>
I would guess that the "no one is getting decent Frames per Second " had not tried both kinds of flying fields. I get lower, lots lower, FPS on one type of flying field than the other. But on the other hand, I'm getting extremely good rates with one type. My bad rates come in about twice what those numbers are you listed. And the good come in way above good rates.
I just upgraded today. Bought the G4 from K/C Hobby (Archdale, NC) at the WSRC Swap Meet for an appreciably better price than Tower's price (and Tower won't have them until middle December). And sold my G3. (good swap meet)
And from what I've seen so far, the upgrade was a very good move. I like to fly my Ultimate in the Alpine Valley. And this Ultimate flies pretty much like my RW one.
Time to go see how other things have changed. And look at painting up an Ultimate to match my WM 46 size.
Here's a better explanaition then I can give ...
jbourke - Senior Sargeant KnifeEdge Software
Water consumes a lot of graphics processing power when it is turned up to HIGHEST quality. At LOW quality it consumes very little.
Everything that is rendered by the sim takes some time. If you run the sim at high resolution, full AA, with quality levels HIGHEST, only a very high end machine will net you 30 fps. This isn't a bug. It's something we do on purpose so that people with really high end machines have something prettier to look at.
Since the physics run at a high rate all the time you should be tailoring your graphical quality to something in the 45 fps range or so. You can go down to 30 or even 25 fps if you like, but I personally prefer a little bit of headroom and I don't personally need all the eye candy.
Jim
http://www.knifeedge.com/forums/show...t=18553&page=2
I don't have a high end machine - I probably spend too much money buying plane stuff
- I also don't think that getting rid of all of my add-on planes and all of the planes that I've downloaded from KnfeEdge's site is worth gaining water ... but, to each his own. It's obvious that without a high end machine you're not going to gain much by upgrading from G3 to G4. Or, maybe it's not so obvious?
