[Dev] how to collect performance data from users?

[James Paige]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:29:07PM -0700, Brian Fisher wrote:
>    Hmm... well we don't use any features of openGL really :) Just display
>    lists and textured unlit quads. No Shaders, no multipass lighting or
>    multi-texture, no accumulation buffer, no floating point formats or
>    anything, no glu or glut functions, no extensions at all...
> 
>    not having Hardware acceleration sounds a very plausible explanation...
>    although OpenGL isn't really supposed to have a software implementation
>    (it's supposed to be about actually getting at your hardware), there is a
>    software implementation on Windows XP which is usually pitiful
> 
>    I'd say if the card can do well on the most basic possible opengl
>    benchmark that involves texturing, then there is something we might be
>    able to fix some problem that we specifically have going on. If it can't
>    do well on such a benchmark, well there ya go :)

I had him post his benchmark results here in this thread: 
http://www.slimesalad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=554

Most of his benchmarks come out in the single digits, but others are 
okay.

>    ...Does sidescroller try to draw every tile everywhere? is there any kind
>    of quick rejection of large blocks of tiles going on? (like throwing out
>    entire blocks in customer service robot)

I haven't touched that particular code in a while, but if I remember 
correctly, it computes a corner block, then returns an iterator 
starting there, which iterates over the blocks on the screen until you 
get to the opposite corner

Breaking the map up into larger blocks like Customer Service Robot does 
would probably be a better idea, since I also want to have larger 
solid structures like rocks and roots embedded in the dirt. But it 
doesn't do that yet.

---
James

>    On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:21 AM, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com>
>    wrote:
> 
>      I was having someone test out the Bob Sidescroller, and he reported that
>      it ran PAINFULLY slow. His computer was of a decent speed and the
>      slowness he described was sufficently severe than I am guessing that his
>      video card doesn't support hardware accelerated opengl-- or that we are
>      depending on some opengl feature that his opengl driver is doing in
>      software.
> 
>      I found this tool:
>      http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Benchmarks/OpenGL-Geometry-Benchmark.shtml
>      which produces a nice list of OpenGL performance information, but I
>      don't know enough about opengl to know exactly which performance
>      measurements are relvant to motherhamster.
> 
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