Hi all, Whenever i write a DirectX rendering engine i never seem to get the performance that is expected, in fact it seems i never even get close. My engine for now simply renders quads and nothing else. Here is a basic overview of how my static scene is built and rendered. 1) All quad descriptions are parsed from a file into a quad manager. 2) A Scene class runs through all of the quads in the quad manager and then does three things. a) The pointers in the quad manager are sorted by material id. This is a string. b) A vector of structs is filled with information about batches. Batched by texture. This minimises DIP calls to only the number of textures. c) 1 index buffer and 1 vertex buffer are built. 3) In the main loop the Scene class sets the VB and IB to the device and runs through the batches. Now in testing i had 1000 quads described in the file. The engine builds this into an IB with 6000 indices and a VB with 4000 vertices. With this load i get about 60fps. Isn't this awefully slow? Since i am building a static scene here the above is done once and all that is done per-frame is one DIP call (since they only use 1 material for now) for 2000 triangles. I worked out that the throughput of my renderer here is ~120000 triangles per second. I should be pushing through 30,000,000 according to some recent engine specs i found. So if you can think of any obvious reasons i might be getting hopeless throughput i'd be glad to here them. Thanks, ace

Actually i'm not rebuilding the buffer each frame, sorry if it read that way. It seems optimising std::vector is of little importance now. There must be a bigger bottleneck somewhere.

ace

Your engine will stick to 60fps if that's your monitor's refresh rate and VSync is on. So, first make sure your VSync is off.

Also, what primitives are you rendering? Triangle lists? Strips? Are you sending many of 'm together in one batch, or are you drawing one quad per primitive call?
(You can combine primitives using degenerate triangles).

Two things off the top of my head: You don't have vertical sync enabled, and also if you double the triangle count - what happens to the framerate?

I'm rendering them as a triangle list, 2000 triangles in a batch and presentation interval is set to immediate.

ace

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Two things off the top of my head: You don't have vertical sync enabled, and also if you double the triangle count - what happens to the framerate?

I can't answer that right now for sure because i'm not in front of the work, but off the top of my head the framerate halves, i think.

ace

Thanks for the help so far,

I can reassure you that this isn't a vsync problem. It does run at like 600FPS when i have less quads. I use FRAPS to determine this. It most certainly isn't snapping to the illustrious 60fps [smile].

ace