[sldev] Client FPS & LLQuaternions

Thomas Shikami thomas.shikami at online.de
Sun Feb 17 21:58:18 PST 2008


Thomas Grimshaw wrote:
> Why is it, when I enter "mouselook" mode on my client, even in a 
> crowded area, my framerate doubles? Should rendering my own avatar 
> really halve my framerate, when it has very little affect on other 
> clients looking at me?
>
> There MUST be some kind of bottleneck there which shouldn't exist... 
> Try it yourself, the framerate different is huge.

I'd like to add, that having windows open also lowers the framerate. It 
seems to be another doubling effect when I close the Communicate window. 
Maybe the bottleneck is with rendering UI or windowing.


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