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

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

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

Post 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.
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Relative
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Post by Relative »

We already know this, but thanks anyway :P
Harbinger
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Post 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.
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BvDorp
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Post by BvDorp »

Is this problem solvable?
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Neddie
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Post by Neddie »

I just left it as is... works great in the test build, not so great in the normal build.
Tobi
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Post 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...
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jcnossen
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Post by jcnossen »

Another advantage of actual GL state management :)
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