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j104 (3 posts)
Apr-29-02, 02:26 PM (EDT) "polygons" I have a 1200 athlon processor 512mb ram memory and a nvidia tnt2 32mb graphics card.
Can anybody indicate how many polygons a route of 5 miles will bear before the frame rate of my equipment will be seriously hit.The polygons are being created by inserting objects into msts from a 3d abacus drawing program.John (engine mad Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
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Subject Author Message Date ID RE: polygons LawrenceKellie Apr-29-02 1 RE: polygons j104 Apr-30-02 2 RE: polygons LawrenceKellie Apr-30-02 3 RE: polygons Motley24Crue2 Apr-30-02 4 RE: polygons LawrenceKellie Apr-30-02 5 RE: polygons Motley24Crue2 Apr-30-02 6

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LawrenceKellie (1471 posts)
Apr-29-02, 03:28 PM (EDT) 1. "RE: polygons" I would suspect that you will probably be hitting the wall in another way before seeing any depreciation in hardware performance. Of course, if what you are adding is going hog wild on polygons, then theoretically one object could stop your system.However, there is an upper limit to the World files, which contain the references to the objects you place on a tile, which will probably be hit first.I have PIII, 667, 768MB RAM, GeForce 256, and I haven't really noticed any problems. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
j104 (3 posts)
Apr-30-02, 02:21 PM (EDT) 2. "RE: polygons" thank you for your reply. I feel I can proceed with more confidence. I put in a project using the abacus program which totalled over 6000polygons and I was concerned that I might cause msts to crash if I continued at this rate.John (engine mad) Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
LawrenceKellie (1471 posts)
Apr-30-02, 02:38 PM (EDT) 3. "RE: polygons" If you have too many of those 6000-polygon objects, there could be a degredation in the frame rate. If you can, reduce the polygon count as much as possible. It will make the experience much better. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Motley24Crue2 (612 posts)
Apr-30-02, 05:29 PM (EDT) 4. "RE: polygons" LAST EDITED ON Apr-30-02 AT 05:29 PM (EDT)Welcome back Lawrence Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
LawrenceKellie (1471 posts)
Apr-30-02, 06:13 PM (EDT) 5. "RE: polygons" Thanks. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Motley24Crue2 (612 posts)
Apr-30-02, 10:04 PM (EDT) 6. "RE: polygons" no problem Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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