question aout 3dmark2k3 nature scene

[TheMouse]

You guys know that part of the nature scene where there's a turtle and the fps drops down to less than 40fps? What exactly is causing that slow down? I mean, which technology of directX9 is slowing that scene down? I would just like to know what the programmer is using that slows down that scene to much slower than the rest of the bench.


thanks

 

[clicknext]

I don't think it's the turtle, I think it's just that you see all that grass and trees and also the water and lighting in the background, and it puts a lot of load on every aspect of your card. I notice that my card drops a lot when it's showing the turtle in front of a lot of grass, but when it switches to an angle where it's just the turtle, ground, and water, it's pretty fast.

 

[klah]

It seems to slow when showing the flowing water and the trees simultaneously. I think it is because the trees use VS2.0 and the water uses PS2.0. The sky also uses PS2.0. Everything else is DX8 effects.

 

[TheMouse]

thanks guys... thats what i wanted to know

 

[MDE]

It might also be because every individual leaf is individually rendered, that is a LOT of leaves .

 

[TheMouse]

Originally posted by: MonkeyDriveExpress
It might also be because every individual leaf is individually rendered, that is a LOT of leaves .

haha, yea, i was thinking that was taxing the hardware but there are other scenes with a lot of leaves as well.