Tips to increase FPS on a slow machine

DuncanBojangles · 2004-05-24T05:28:55

Hey all, I''m waiting to build my new computer, so until then I''m stuck with my really old setup: AMD K6-2 450 MHz 192 MB RAM Matrox Millenium MGA 2064 (4 MB) So, as you can see doing pretty much any OpenGL on this machine is pretty sttrenuous. I''m using Slackware Linux 9.0 with the 2.4.20 kernel and SDL. I''ve written a little program that I hoped to turn into a game but anything I do to it slows it down. I''m drawing an animated MD2 model, around 1000 triangles, and a 14 triangle model for the ground plane. Everything is textured. When texturing and lighting is on, I get around 1 FPS. With no texturing but still lighting, I get 5-6 FPS. With no texturing, lighting, and everything drawn as outlined polygons, I get 10-11 FPS. I was able to get a 10% increase in FPS by putting my ground plane in a display list. What else can I do to get a boost out of my program? "Donkey, if it were me, you''d be dead." I cna ytpe 300 wrods pre mniute.