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Old 04-23-2003, 09:11 AM   #12
Jim Sachs
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If you think the framerate is low now, you should have seen it when the program was 5 megs. Prolific has done a lot to streamline and speed up the program, and I'm sure they will continue to do so.

When I designed the Marine Aquarium, I wrote it for the low-end cards that were common 3 years ago. So naturally those of you with more modern cards are getting framerates in the hundreds. The 3D background and other improvements will slow things down somewhat, but time marches on.

The ideal situation would be to increase the complexity of the program until the average state-of-the-art card runs at the same rate as the monitor refreshes, let's say 100 fps. That's what I will be shooting for with the Freshwater Tank.
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