"I cant get the framrate to lower below 85 on one of my computers no matter what settings i chose in it."
Geez! What you got a 4ghz machine? It drops to 35 on my system with 2 lights.
On the other hand another guy who recently tested it on a 1ghz with geforce 3 said he only got like 9fps with one light!
And I know that a Geforce 3 is way better than my Radeon 7200, and I was getting like 30fps with two lights when I had my Celeron 433!
So that guy's PC is just weird. :-)
Anyhow with two lights casting shadows, you're basically rendering 14 diffrent shadow maps at once... double the number of shadow casting objects in the scene. So that's why it would slow down.
Ooooh!
I just realized something!
Aren't there some new geforce drivers which positively SUCK at rendering text on the screen? I bet THAT'S why his framerate was so terrible!
In fact a lot of text hurts my own card too somewhat. I should put in a way to hide all the text and/or only display an fps counter.
I'll think about making it so you can press 6 to cause your computer to burst into flames with 4 lights. :-)
Geez! What you got a 4ghz machine? It drops to 35 on my system with 2 lights.
On the other hand another guy who recently tested it on a 1ghz with geforce 3 said he only got like 9fps with one light!
And I know that a Geforce 3 is way better than my Radeon 7200, and I was getting like 30fps with two lights when I had my Celeron 433!
So that guy's PC is just weird. :-)
Anyhow with two lights casting shadows, you're basically rendering 14 diffrent shadow maps at once... double the number of shadow casting objects in the scene. So that's why it would slow down.
Ooooh!
I just realized something!
Aren't there some new geforce drivers which positively SUCK at rendering text on the screen? I bet THAT'S why his framerate was so terrible!
In fact a lot of text hurts my own card too somewhat. I should put in a way to hide all the text and/or only display an fps counter.
I'll think about making it so you can press 6 to cause your computer to burst into flames with 4 lights. :-)