[sldev] Why is framerate so much lower in my viewer builds?

[Lawson English]

Khyota wrote:
> Ive tested 6 linux builds already in a controlled setting same postion, same 
> graphics settings res(640x480) no changes in the sim, etc. After all textures 
> are loaded i check the framerate.
>
> Im on openSuSE 11.0 x86_64 AMD Athlon 64 3200 Geforce 8400gs
>
> I built the (standalone) realease tarball, trunk, and openal branch w/o openal 
> (no audio in any of those) and w openal for audio :) (no mozlib in any) . I 
> also grabed the official release and the build service build from 
> here which im going to call the marvin24, marvin 24 is the older 1.20.17 w 
> Scons, it does not use kdu either.
>
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/marvin24/openSUSE_11.0
>
> The realease tarball, trunk, and openal w/o openal all acheived around 31-34 
> fps. Openal w openal slowed down to about 28-30. extra cpu power for audio?
>
> But amazingly both the offical release and the marvin24 build ran at 48-50fps! 
>
> Are there any optimizations that i could be missing?
>
> I took a screenshot in the trunk and offical builds with the frame texture and 
> the fps thing whatver its called open just incase anyone can catch something. 
> (fps goes down when i take a snapshot though)
>   

I believe there are commercial versions of the open source libs that are 
more efficient, that LL distributes
with the standalone viewer. Some people grab those libs and replace the 
open source versions the final build
and report higher framerates, IIRC

Lawson