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Poor spring performance on a core2duo/quad? Try this.....

Posted: 29 Jun 2007, 20:10
by Harbinger
I have an nvidia graphics card and im not sure if its the same for ati cards, but the multithreaded driver causes problems for spring.

So go into your nvidia conrol panel and turn threaded optimisation to "off" and this should improve performance.

Posted: 29 Jun 2007, 20:12
by Relative
We already know this, but thanks anyway :P

Posted: 29 Jun 2007, 20:15
by Harbinger
Ah ok I just heard about this today, before this point I did an affinity mask on my spring.exe and that also solved it but the driver thing is much easier.

Posted: 30 Jun 2007, 01:14
by BvDorp
Is this problem solvable?

Posted: 30 Jun 2007, 10:09
by Neddie
I just left it as is... works great in the test build, not so great in the normal build.

Posted: 30 Jun 2007, 11:26
by Tobi
BvDorp wrote:Is this problem solvable?
SJ asked some nvidia guys about it. A possible cause is glGet* functions. A quick search shows the string glGet occurs 172 times in Spring source, so it's probably fixable, but quite a lot of work. Especially since you can be sure the glGets are there for a reason, so it may be hard to remove them without breaking functionality...

Posted: 30 Jun 2007, 13:15
by jcnossen
Another advantage of actual GL state management :)