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General / Low FPS with GeForce 6200 LE

« on: August 26, 2011, 05:45:19 pm »

Hi Laurent,

That's our next step. We'll keep the game development including using lots of sprites.

I was just wondering what's missing on this GeForce 6200 LE that's making it perform worse than a simple onboard video card. Would it be any technical specification that SFML needs for 2D acceleration that's not avaliable on this board?

Thanks!

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General / Low FPS with GeForce 6200 LE

« on: August 26, 2011, 04:59:02 pm »

We're developing a new game using SFML 1.6 for the first time and we're having some issues with the FPS rate depending on the video board that's being used.

Just as a test we're drawing a 1280 x 768 static background image where we move two little balls that bounce when they reach the window edge.

We've tested this simple program with a few different hardware configurations and the results were:

[DESKTOP] Core2Quad Q6600 2.4GHz / 4GB RAM / WinXP
[ONBOARD] Intel(R) G33/G31 Express Chipset Family - 280 FPS
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 LE - 90 FPS
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT - 1245 FPS

[DESKTOP] Pentium D Dual Core 3GHz / 3GB RAM / WinXP
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 LE - 60 FPS
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT - 1230 FPS

[NOTEBOOK] Core2Duo T8100 2.1GHz / 2GB RAM / WinXP
[ONBOARD] Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family - 280 FPS
NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS - 330 FPS

The question is: does anyone have any idea of why the GeForce 6200 LE offboard is performing so much worse even than the Intel onboard video card? We know that it's an old and simple GeForce model but even like that we thought it'd be at least better than any onboard video card.