RE: Croquet speed

Just point at it and press number keys.

-- Bert

On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 dmair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> How do you subdivide the triangle spinner?
> 
> I see that it has a Sierpinski object in its hierarchy, but don't see how to
> subdivide.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Doug Mair
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bert
> Freudenberg
> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 4:16 PM
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> Subject: Re: Croquet speed
> 
> 
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> > I just dropped it on a dual 2.4GHz Xeon machine with a gig of dual
> > channel RDRAM (I'm not sure what that means, I just use the machine,
> > didn't research and buy it) with a Quadro4 700XGL video card, and
> > Croquet feels rather slow and sluggish.  I didn't see anyway to turn on
> > a FPS counter
> 
> It's in the red halo menu.
> 
> And, of course, FRAPS is the canonical tool for this (www.fraps.com).
> 
> > but subjectively I'd say it was running between 12 and 18
> > frames per second.  Does that sound at all normal to other peoples
> > expectations?  This machine is running Windows 2000 Professional.
> 
> Celeron 400 MHz, GeForce 2 MX: about 4 to 11 fps in the main world,
> depending on how many objects are in view. The actual number of polygons
> does not matter - even subdividing the pyramid to level 6 does not change
> the numbers at all.
> 
> -- Bert