Fractal Terrains Display Update Rate

TechnoBandit1043

Hey Everyone,

I'm the new guy today, first post on these forums!

I had a question about the display update from Fractal Terrains.
Is 10 fps really the fastest this will go?
Because it's really starting to annoy me when I'm constantly waiting for the whole world to render again when I drag my map just a couple of inches...

Thanks!

TechnoBandit1043

jslayton

The display update rate in FT has little to do with how fast the world gets updated on the screen. The world computations are performed in a background thread separate from the screen update thread. Increasing the display update rate will, in fact, slow down the overall computation rate slightly.

The surest way to increase the computation rate is to decrease the window size. I rarely run with a main window area much over 500 pixels wide and I get acceptable performance for my purposes.

TechnoBandit1043

Eureka!

Thanks a lot jslayton, works a lot better now with a smaller window. (had it fullscreen on 1920 x 1080... didn't work smoothly at all :P)