FlightGear (CVS 2006-10-15) test

Platform:

CPU: Intel Pentium M 1.60GHz
Memory: 512MB
OS: Linux 2.6.15
Display Card: ATI Radeon R250 (Mobility FireGL 9000) AGP, 64MB RAM
X: Xorg 7.0.0 (Debian 7.0.22), with ATI open source driver

Base test options:

--aircraft=747
--timeofday=noon
--disable-random-objects
--geometry=640x480
--prop:/sim/rendering/fps-display=true


Tests:

  1. Textures.high/ directory is removed from $FG_ROOT
  2. All texture files in the Textures/ directory are scaled down to 50% of the original (CVS)
  3. All texture files in the Textures/ directory are scaled down to 25% or the original (CVS)
  4. Materials with multiple texture are changed to have single texture in the materials.xml
  5. Scenery/Objects/ directory is removed
  6. --prop:/sim/ai/enabled=false --prop:/sim/traffic-manager/enabled=false --prop:/sim/ai-traffic/enabled=false

Results:


 #1(*1) #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11
a) Textures.high removed
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
b) Textures scaled 50%

✓
✓ ✓

✓ ✓ ✓
c) Textures scaled 25%


✓






d) materials.xml single



✓ ✓


✓ ✓
e) Scenery/Objects/ removed




✓



✓
f) ai, ai-traffic, traffic-manager disabled





✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓












fps (default KSFO startup cockpit view) 1-3 1-3 30-34(*2) 30-34(*3) 33-38 35-41 3-4 5-6 37-39 42-44 47-50

Remarks:

  1. Test #1 is control
  2. Test #3 startup splash screen fading out was jerky, then back to 30-34fps.
  3. Test #4 startup splash screen fading out was all smooth.


Pigeon <pigeon at pigeond dot net>
15 October 2006